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I wonder if you can have the best of both worlds by spending 80% of your time on efficiently making money, and 20% on experimenting wastefully? (The split isn't
by ph0rque 18y ago
I wonder if you can have the best of both worlds by spending 80% of your time on efficiently making money, and 20% on experimenting wastefully? (The split isn't as important as the idea).
- aditya 18y agoThat's an interesting idea but it's hard to evolve a culture of superefficient mindbots (a la Toyota's conveyer belt workers) and crazy hackers with no interest in money. 3M struggled with this as well: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_24/b4038406.htm http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_24/b4038406....
- nivi 18y agoThat is a good idea. Slack (a.k.a. 20% time) is built into lean. Why? Because running at 100% leads to waste... if you don't have slack, you increase your cycle time and you end up sub-optimizing the whole system.