Comments on: Precisely Wrong http://oldleandude.com/2015/06/15/precisely-wrong/ A Blog About Understanding TPS and Gaining Its Full Benefits, brought to you by "The Toast Guy" Tue, 15 Dec 2015 14:39:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Joshua Partogi http://oldleandude.com/2015/06/15/precisely-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-8642 Sun, 26 Jul 2015 17:39:58 +0000 http://oldleandude.com/?p=1724#comment-8642 Read Goldratt’s book “The Goal”. Still could not understand the overall idea of it. Maybe because my background is software development rather than manufacturing.

]]> By: Hessel Visser http://oldleandude.com/2015/06/15/precisely-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-8514 Sun, 28 Jun 2015 20:56:28 +0000 http://oldleandude.com/?p=1724#comment-8514 It was in 1991 when I was invited for an Academic Jonah Course in the Netherlands. We had a great two weeks with Eli and learned more than the TOC. We did understand that his way of doing the discussion was even very special. His two secretaries did an amazing job in that time to make every day a report of all the discussions we had. I still have these discussions available. I look back to an amazing time and learned a lot of him. Be far most I did like his way of asking the right question and then listen as best as possible.

]]> By: Tricia Sutton (@SuttonTricia) http://oldleandude.com/2015/06/15/precisely-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-8473 Mon, 22 Jun 2015 11:50:49 +0000 http://oldleandude.com/?p=1724#comment-8473 Eli Goldratt was one of my early exposures to lean types of concepts. I had read one of his books with great interest so convinced my employer to send me to a workshop near us in Chicago.

Brain science has shown that memories from dramatic (or traumatic) situations are stronger, longer lasting. I still remember his workshop vividly after a couple decades as a result… I especially remember Eli walking up and down the aisle **yelling** at us: “DO YOU UNDERSTAND? YES OR NO?!”

He’d look us straight in the eyes, demanding an honest answer. While it was initially intimidating, I saw that if someone did say “No,” he would go back over what someone didn’t understand and help change it to a “yes” …

I also took to heart his unwillingness to shorten his sessions for executives because he did not believe they would get it if they did not give him the time to take them through whole thought process. He’d give up a client rather than not be effective or let someone believe they knew his concepts when they had not done enough.

An amazing man.

]]> By: Goldratt Books (@GoldrattBooks) http://oldleandude.com/2015/06/15/precisely-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-8405 Tue, 16 Jun 2015 17:38:43 +0000 http://oldleandude.com/?p=1724#comment-8405 Bruce, thank you for this tribute to Eli. We’ll be sure to share it with his family and as many of his former colleagues and fans as possible. —North River Press / Goldratt Books

]]> By: Mark Graban http://oldleandude.com/2015/06/15/precisely-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-8386 Mon, 15 Jun 2015 13:59:08 +0000 http://oldleandude.com/?p=1724#comment-8386 When I was at GM from 1995 to 1997, there was very detailed TOC training that was given to us in the Powertrain plants… not from Goldratt himself, but from people trained by him. I had previously read The Goal as part of an undergraduate Industrial Engineering class.

I remember one conflict being the idea of a constraint. The Lean folks at GM (yes, we had them) would say to design a line that was balanced… therefore no constraint. The TOC people would argue there SHOULD be a designed-in constraint at the first operation, to prevent too much WIP from accumulating in the line (which sounds like Lean).

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