When to build a Goal Tree? My use cases tell you.

As I write these lines, in 2024, it will be nearly ten years that I am a fan, a promoter, and a Goal Tree Builder. With 25 Trees already proudly populating my forest, I’d like to share some use cases that may inspire you to consider building one of your own. Strategic road map When …

Checking for possible unexpected Negative Branches in a Future Reality Tree

When building a Future Reality Tree (FRT), a solution is “injected” to a string of cause-and-effect in order to neutralize it. If there is no check about a potential new problem created by the injected solution, it could be that ironically the solution to the first problem creates a new one, potentially worse. That would …

Converting Current Reality Tree (Problem) to a Future Reality Tree (Potential solution)

In a prior post (& video) I have presented a Current Reality Tree that I have scrutinized and improved as a tutorial. A Current Reality Tree is a thorough analysis of a problem, usually a complex one, aiming to uncover its critical root causes. Yet achieving to build a robust, logically sound Current Reality Tree …

Scrutinizing and improving a Current Reality Tree

If you are curious or interested in critical and logical thinking, you may like this episode based on a Current Reality Tree, (CRT) that I’ve found on the Internet, and I assume it was built quick and dirty, leaving room to improve it. https://youtu.be/BTfNoyVUm5I

What if they were right? Hone your critical thinking skills!

We have all seen this picture. It’s a classic that’s been around for years. We smile, we laugh. But have you ever asked yourself the question: what if the toilers with the square wheels were right? I share 2 concrete examples illustrating the justified rejection of wheels. https://youtu.be/wRd01utLkug

Is Value Stream Mapping a skill worth mentioning?

Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is popular and hype to a point it makes it a kind of Lean emblem. An academic mocked a company’s low Lean maturity for not displaying any Value Stream Map. It was not only shocking to my ears, but proved the academic’s own low maturity on the subject. Value Stream Mapping …

The Lean Toolbox Sixth Edition: A Sourcebook for Process Improvement

The Lean Toolbox Sixth Edition: A Sourcebook for Process Improvement by John Bicheno and Matthias Holweg is out. Published by Picsie Books on the very first days of January 2023, the new book counts 360 pages compared to the 342 pages of the previous edition and weighs 617 grams (1.36 pounds), gaining a little muscle …

[In Times of Big Quit] Should I leave or should I stay? Bring rationality into this classic career dilemma

In this 9 min video based on logical thinking and the "Evaporating Cloud" AKA "Conflict Resolution Diagram", I share how to cope with contradicting objectives or wants. https://youtu.be/6ouSRRDRej4

Jobs in 2023: Luddites 1 – Robots 0

This is the kind of irony people generally like: a story turning totally differently as expected, in favor of the humble, the weak or the poor. The humble heroes here are the workers, who were told for years that they’ll become redundant as their routine jobs will be taken over by automation, artificial intelligence and …

What does GPT mean? I asked ChatGPT.

Me: What does GPT mean? ChatGPT: GPT stands for "Generative Pre-training Transformer." It is a type of language model developed by OpenAI that is designed to generate human-like text. The GPT model uses a transformer architecture, which allows it to process input sequences efficiently and to handle longer-range dependencies in the data. GPT has been …