Learning from Observation
CEOs, COOs, and consultants like myself do NOT know everything. We shouldnât pretend to, nor expect ourselves to. We do need to constantly focus on learning, thinking, and applying what makes sense.
We all too often overemphasize the differences and underestimate the similarities of our operations with that of others. Becoming skilled at recognizing which differences truly matter in a specific circumstance and which similarities allow us to learn the most is crucial to the effective leader of a manufacturing business.
Lazy leaders believe that copy/paste is a step forward, when it is doomed to fail. For example, failing to comprehend the thinking system behind its tools, many see a Toyota tool like kanban and try to copy/paste it into our own operations. Toyota developed, and continues to evolve kanban
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Beijing, June 9 (IANS) Huawei on Wednesday launched its Global Cyber Security and Privacy Protection Transparency Centre in Dongguan (China), with representatives from GSMA, SUSE, the British Standards Institution, and regulators from the UAE and Indonesia speaking at the opening ceremony.
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• Updated: 09/06/2021 - 17:54
The capabilities of sand are being explored more than ever as desertification impacts the globe and Earth’s soil is converted into an infertile mix of dust and sand.
With 75 percent desert land, the UAE has survived such environments for millennia and unearthed its hidden benefits, which is attracting the attention of international scientists today.
It’s all sedimentary
Sand is already the second most used natural, and non-renewable, resource after water.
It is modified to make everyday products from simple glassware and cosmetics to high-tech solar panels, cell phone screens, and silicon microchips.
Its most popular use is in construction as the main component of concrete and mortar.