Dr. Kelvyn Youngman recently shared a passage from Taiichi Ohno that made me think. It articulates something I’ve witnessed hundreds of times in facilitation work but had never seen expressed so clearly. Ohno wrote in 1982: “The debate can become endless. Or, each side tries to be more outspoken than the others and things do…

Since completing my Theory of Constraints certification in 2005 (the equivalent of today’s Black Belt in Thinking), I’ve been fascinated by how Dr. Efrat Goldratt-Ashlag and her father Eli Goldratt have shaped my understanding of human potential. The Theory of Constraints isn’t just about manufacturing bottlenecks or project management—it’s about something much deeper. Here’s what…