I have been studying a lot of Systems Thinking and Toyota
Production System
material lately, and noticed that Taiichi Ohno of Toyota at first
never
allowed anything to be written down, simply because he recognized
that it
was an evolving process and continuous learning, and writing things
down
crystallizes ideas unnecessarily.
Very interesting!! And I agree both with the observation that things
written solidifies a certain way of thinking, as well as your
conclusion that we need some form of balance.
Perhaps we could 'expire' ideas, and pile older ones into "old
thoughts", instead of making it prominent as "the way".
I think the major problem in our case is that there is no verbal
communication. How can we pass on the knowledge without writing it down?
So, I'm guessing that it will be difficult to put exactly into
practice the stuff you're reading about, since we're not working under
that same conditions. I'm sure you'll find some good principles, though.
Cheers,
=David
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