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How to Win Friends and Influence People: Chapter 0b – “Nine Suggestions on How to Get the Most Out of This Book”
Carnegie continues to lead the reader towards better people skills, laying out 9 easy rules which will improve the efficiency of his book. Continue reading
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Tagged Carnegie, How to win friends and influence people, Persuasion, Sales
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Global Fluids: Kombucha, Probiotics and other Fermented Beverages
There isn’t a clear annual volume for Kombucha, probiotics, or active beverages – but the category is clearly growing. That will continue – the combination of authentic, healthy, not-bad-for-you (which is not simply the opposite of ‘healthy’), convenient, and ‘new’ … Continue reading
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Tagged Alcohol, Beer, Beverage, Capacity, Fermentation, Fermented beverage, food, Kombucha, Liquor, Probiotics, Production, Wine
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The Cliffs Notes Guide to Goldratt’s The Goal – Why Isn’t there one?
Purchasing CliffsNotes for highschool texts was a rush only outpaced by finding English copies of difficult to understand Spanish literature. Why isn’t there one for Goldratt’s classic, The Goal? Here are my guesses: The legacy Goldratt institutions have defended the … Continue reading
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Global Fluids and Volumes
How much water is on Earth? How much beer? How much human blood? Continue reading
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Tagged Acetic Acid, Agriculture, Beer, Biopharma, dialysis, Fluids, Fresh Water, Honey, Oil and gas, Process water, Reverse Osmosis, Semiconductor, Sustainability, Wine
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Cultural Communication Constraints
Last week I spoke with a graduate school candidate about my experience working globally and specifically about ways to improve communication. There are some common constraints when meeting new colleagues that challenge communication. This applies to anywhere in the world … Continue reading
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Goldratt’s Major Concepts in The Goal: The Foundations of Theory of Constraints
The major concepts that Goldratt places in Rogo’s hand to explain and solve problems are; Goals, Constraint, Dependence, Fluctuations, Metrics, Batch Size, Throughput Accounting, Priority and Local Optima (a trap to be avoided). Continue reading
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Tagged Batch Size, Constraint, Dependence, Fluctuation, Goal, Goldratt, Local Optima, Metrics, Priority, The Goal, Throughput Accounting, ToC
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Goldratt’s The Goal: Chapter by Chapter Review
[Other Options – Major Concepts in The Goal, or The Most Popular Guides to The Goal] Written in 1984, The Goal lays out Eliyahu Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints (“ToC”) in the format of a novel. ToC was first used into improve production … Continue reading
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The Goal: Based on Teamwork & Data
Goldratt takes several approaches to showing how Constraints impact a plant and even personal lives. Several approaches are used to educate the reader; Jonah serves as a mentor to Alex Rogo, educating him on what is going on. Rogo adopts … Continue reading
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The Goal – Chapter 40 – Culture and Constraints
[Dig deeper with the full Chapter-by-Chapter Review of The Goal.][Watch a video that covers Chapter 40.] Like Chapter 39, I find this final chapter unsatisfying. It must have been hard for Goldratt to bring the book to a close. The … Continue reading
The Goal – Chapter 39 – Planning
[The fastest way to read The Goal, and the absolute fastest way to learn The Theory of Constraints.][Watch a video summary of Chapter 39.] The plant is having hiccups. Rogo is no longer the plant manager and has to help at … Continue reading
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