It’s sometimes hard to see how the core principles can apply to situations in which there doesn’t seem to be an assembly line with individual steps that produce

It’s sometimes hard to see how the core principles can apply to situations in which there doesn’t seem to be an assembly line with individual steps that produces a gear, a motor, a door panel, etc. I like The Phoenix Project because it specifically addresses this by showing how they apply in a warehouse and in a cube farm. I don’t really think you need to dogmatically apply all 5 ways to every environment every time, but it’s helpful to remember them and try to see which might apply any time you run up against a problem. Things like removing a roadblock, even if it slows you down even more to cross-train someone else in dealing with whatever task is causing the bottleneck is, in the end, in everyone’s interest.