The Goal: A Process of Ongoing ImprovementThe Goal is about New global principles of manufacturing. It's about people trying to understand what makes their world tick so that they can make it better. As they think logically and consistently about their problems they are able to determine 'cause and effect' relationships between their actions and the results. In the process they deduce some basic principles which they use to save their planet and make it successful. |
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... miles per hour , " I don't mean I'm walking exactly at a constant rate of two miles per hour every instant . Sometimes I'll be going 2.5 miles per hour ; sometimes maybe I'll be walking at only 1.2 miles per hour . The rate is going to ...
... miles per hour , " I don't mean I'm walking exactly at a constant rate of two miles per hour every instant . Sometimes I'll be going 2.5 miles per hour ; sometimes maybe I'll be walking at only 1.2 miles per hour . The rate is going to ...
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... miles per hour , I couldn't do it if the boy in front of me could only walk two miles per hour . And even if the kid directly in front of me could walk that fast , neither of us could do it unless all the boys in the line were moving at ...
... miles per hour , I couldn't do it if the boy in front of me could only walk two miles per hour . And even if the kid directly in front of me could walk that fast , neither of us could do it unless all the boys in the line were moving at ...
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... hour we took for lunch , that means we've covered five miles . . . in five hours ? We aren't moving at two miles per hour . We are moving at the rate of one mile per hour . So with five hours to go It's going to be DARK by the time we ...
... hour we took for lunch , that means we've covered five miles . . . in five hours ? We aren't moving at two miles per hour . We are moving at the rate of one mile per hour . So with five hours to go It's going to be DARK by the time we ...
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