Comments on: Our Common Sense Betrays Us http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2005/12/21/577/ The magazine for the project age Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:28:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Graeme Nichol http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2005/12/21/577/#comment-2185 Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:11:55 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2005/12/21/577/#comment-2185 Lets call common sense an assumption or a mental model (after Senge). We all develop assumption of how the world works in your case the people you spoke to perhaps don't have a model to focus on either positive or negative. If they have tried a lean approach and seen failure - you can imagine what their assumption will be - and then they'll interpret that as common sense - avoid failure Lets call common sense an assumption or a mental model (after Senge).

We all develop assumption of how the world works in your case the people you spoke to perhaps don’t have a model to focus on either positive or negative.

If they have tried a lean approach and seen failure - you can imagine what their assumption will be - and then they’ll interpret that as common sense - avoid failure

]]> by: kathleen fasanella http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2005/12/21/577/#comment-2125 Thu, 22 Dec 2005 03:41:37 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2005/12/21/577/#comment-2125 The problem with common sense is that it's "common", lol. It's hard to wend people over when so much of lean is counterintuitive. I think that's one problem we find difficult to surmount. Frankly, over the past several months when I wrote about lean on my blog, it was usually reluctantly. Reluctantly because I knew that my site stats dropped precipitously when I did. My readers didn't want it. Still, I kept up with it because I knew lean to be a true thing. Unlike other industries, apparel people do not have the luxury of choosing to ignore lean; call our industry a harbinger of what's to come for others but our very survival in the immediate future depends on it. Perhaps I've become more successful in getting that idea across because lately, things seem to have changed. Now when I write about lean, my readers seem excited, they get involved. Comments become lengthy, thought provoking and insightful. They're actually reading the books now. The counterintuitive concepts of lean will continue to be a barrier. Perhaps next year -when Toyota overtakes GM for first place in the automotive market- people will be receptive to learning more. ATC/NPR's been running a series this week and I note they've yet to mention lean either :( The problem with common sense is that it’s “common”, lol. It’s hard to wend people over when so much of lean is counterintuitive. I think that’s one problem we find difficult to surmount.

Frankly, over the past several months when I wrote about lean on my blog, it was usually reluctantly. Reluctantly because I knew that my site stats dropped precipitously when I did. My readers didn’t want it. Still, I kept up with it because I knew lean to be a true thing. Unlike other industries, apparel people do not have the luxury of choosing to ignore lean; call our industry a harbinger of what’s to come for others but our very survival in the immediate future depends on it. Perhaps I’ve become more successful in getting that idea across because lately, things seem to have changed. Now when I write about lean, my readers seem excited, they get involved. Comments become lengthy, thought provoking and insightful. They’re actually reading the books now.

The counterintuitive concepts of lean will continue to be a barrier. Perhaps next year -when Toyota overtakes GM for first place in the automotive market- people will be receptive to learning more. ATC/NPR’s been running a series this week and I note they’ve yet to mention lean either :(

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