Nov
24

Puzzle

I’m an introvert. That means that I get tired in crowds, when talking to people, when presenting or hosting workshops.

Except at XP Days… I came back from XP Days Benelux and London full of energy.

Why is that?

More stories about both conferences later.

Nov
24

Toyota and the power of people

Kevin Meyer has an excellent blog entry “Toyota and the Power of People” over on Evolving Excellence.

If the Toyota Way has a bottleneck, it must be the time it takes to teach people to live the “Toyota Way”. If you grow quickly (and lose some of your top people), you will be constrained by the number of people you can bring up to the level that real lean requires.

Some more about the way Toyota trains people in future blog entries.