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As I was preparing this column, one of my resources referred to chapter 48 of the 2,500-year-old Tao te Ching (quoted below), which, as some of you know, is one of my favorite sources of wisdom. It really tied today’s message together, and I hope you can apply its wisdom to your improvement efforts.
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“To obtain a diploma requires the storage of trivia.
To obtain the Great Integrity [Tao] requires their abandonment.
“The more we are released from vested fragments of knowledge,
the less we are compelled to take vested actions,
until all is done without doing.
“When the ego interferes in the rhythms of process,
there is so much doing!
But nothing is done.”
Matthew E. May has published a thought-provoking article whose points I’d like to share as you settle into your post-holiday work rhythm.
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Making the Complex Simple
I couldn't agree with you more.
I have spent the last 25 years simplifying the methods and tools of Six Sigma to make them more accessible to the masses.
Like you, I have found that improvement practitioners don't need to know everything to do anything. Just a handful of tools.
Like the Tao, I fear that we fill beginner's minds with unnecessary information that confuses them creating roadblocks to improvement.
Tom DeMarco once said that "Making the complex simple is a huge intellectual feat."
People often accuse me of trying to "dumb down" Six Sigma, but I believe I'm trying to "simple it up."
What are the "vital few" methods and tools you use most of the time to solve most problems? Teach those.
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