Comments on: One dimensional solutions to multiple change issues don’t work

By: What You Read is What You Need | Cube Rules

What You Read is What You Need | Cube Rules — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:33:07 +0000

[...] One dimensional solutions to multiple change issues don’t work. An article about the multiple changes we have in our lives going on at once can’t be worked by a one dimensional solution. Plus, a follow-up article on Multiple Changes Require Fast Focus that attempts to provide some insight around what it would take to deal with the multiple changes. [...]

By: Multiple Changes Require Fast Focus | Cube Rules

Multiple Changes Require Fast Focus | Cube Rules — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:02:17 +0000

[...] article on using one dimensional solutions to multiple change issues don’t work became, perhaps not surprisingly, my most referred to article in the blog. And all I did was [...]

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:07:00 +0000

The work I do (and have done for 20 years now) is extreme in its multi-dimensional juggling.

The whole key is best optimization of what by its multivariate definition is always a complex set of “workings out” and balancing.

What has made this sort of dynamic “everything moving” set of tasks not only do-able, but fun, is to hold true to best optimization on several guiding principles.

Organize and apply your meta-principles and it comes together.

In my work the principles are fairly simple:

Safety
Quality
Productivity

Then:

Resource Balancing
Risk Reduction

Notice that we let profitability be a laagered variable, one that we plan into our construction by doing the basics as best we can.

Wielding the “Sword of Meta-Principles” quickly slays the dragon of multivariate dynamic work environments.

And of course we always back check our decision making with a “Golden Rule Analysis” to make sure if we were a customer or line worker that we would agree and buy into the optimization we’ve directed.

Cheers!

Steve
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