Most of us, when practicing sports, either professionally or just to keep fit – perhaps with the exception of ballet – tend to prioritize both quick movements and muscular power.
We seldom care for slow, delicate movements especially if we’re males, we want – or need? – Males tend to want to move harshly and powerfully. Continue reading
Mr. George Jonas in his novel Vengeance gives a remarkable account of how the Sixth Sense works and how reliable it is.
We, as quality or environment or food or risk auditors, consultants, trainers and writers should dig our Sixth Sense out of its grave and make it live again.
If Mr. Jonas records how reliable the Sixth Sense is in a delicate job as espionage, we shouldn’t be so arrogant to despise it in our daily routine or are often boring jobs. Continue reading
I’ve already written a few lines on the Risks connected with Logistics processes. As our business world becomes larger and larger and ever increasing quantities of merchandise are stored in faraway parts of the globe and moved from one part to another, we can’t afford to ignore that Logistics processes represent Risks by themselves. Continue reading
Recently, a friend of mine, very fond of ancient history, while lying in the sun of southern France, posed a rather disquieting question: “how reliable are recounts of ancient historical events?”.
Her question was probably biased by the leisurely reading of many contradictory daily newspapers’ news, contradictory not only among newspapers but on the same newspaper, too. Continue reading
“… or to keep things clean are not to make them dirty.”
When a customer of mine told me of this principle I was hit by its simplicity, by its obviousness. Here are my thoughts on this expression.
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One: There’s no system or process totally “clean”, and whose dirt can be totally eliminated. Any (c)lean system or process management cannot but attain a reduction of “dirt”. Continue reading