Re:Companies consider abandoning open office layouts to prev...
by folkhack on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @10:24AM
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I've been thinking since yesterday and I think I'm going to jump back into Deming's work... do you have a good starting point? I had the realization that I hadn't read "Out of the Crisis" since my early 20's, and I've had a few bad run-ins with super-corporate weirdos slinging his theory like snake oil after that.
> Ultimately the knowledge needs mathematical grounding (specifically in probability and statistics), which is something else sorely lacking in management trees (and even more and more on the programming side)
This is one of the biggest struggles of my career... dealing with quantifying something that's incredibly difficult to quantify.
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Glad you're checking out Tom Sachs' list! It's an odd one for sure - weird artsy video and all. It's about an art studio in NY and how it manages it's people/process. It's sorta hokey I'll admit, but I find the simplicity of it helps me get back on the rails myself during those times of variation =)
> Ultimately the knowledge needs mathematical grounding (specifically in probability and statistics), which is something else sorely lacking in management trees (and even more and more on the programming side)
This is one of the biggest struggles of my career... dealing with quantifying something that's incredibly difficult to quantify.
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Glad you're checking out Tom Sachs' list! It's an odd one for sure - weird artsy video and all. It's about an art studio in NY and how it manages it's people/process. It's sorta hokey I'll admit, but I find the simplicity of it helps me get back on the rails myself during those times of variation =)