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Dan Markovitz is the founder and president of TimeBack Management. Prior to founding his own firm, Mr. Markovitz held management positions at Sierra Designs, Adidas, CNET and Asics Tiger. Learn More...
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Leveling; smoothing out the flow; e.g., doing two performance evaluations a day for 3 weeks, rather than ten a day for three days -- and then needing to take a vacation because you're so burned out.
Overburdening people, process, or equipment; e.g., people working 100 hour weeks for months on end -- come to think of it, like most lawyers and accountants.
Uneveness or variability; e.g., leaving work at the normal time on Thursday, but having to stay at the office till midnight on Friday because the boss finally got around to giving you that project...at 4:30pm.
Waste; activities that your customer doesn't value and doesn't want to pay for; e.g., billing your customer for the really expensive 10am FedEx delivery because you didn't finish the document on time.
Tripping over the obvious
RE: But *knowing* it and *seeing* it are two different things.
I agree this is a huge issue that we have with current information overload. I call it "tripping over the obvious".
With the economy I see that is what is happening and nobody seems to see it. What goes up most go down? We, the USA, have had a great time since the end of the Great Depression and World War II. We earned a lot of good will throughout the world. The strong USD $ was backed by faith in the USA.
Now that faith has shifted to Asia. First Japan in the 1980's then they had economic issues, but now Vietnam, Taiwan, China are the golden stars of the world.
Do we really think we can make $60,000 a year income when the average pay in the world is $5,000 a year? A lot of hungry people looking to become 'middle class' outside the USA. The USA is LESS THAN 5% of the world population, can't people _see the obvious_ that eventually it will balance out?
Freedom, education measurements, and open markets have all been in decline for decades. Our government only seems to know how to grow, get bigger, new rules, new laws. Who removes the broken and defective laws? Who cuts the fat in the spending?
If people think that these (July 2008) are bad economic times, they haven't seen ANYTHING yet!
Great post. Don't trip over the obvious ;)