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In a message dated 6/22/04 5:38:41 PM, clee-engel@bastyr.edu writes:<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">Dear Paul,</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"> Thank you for your outrageous story! You wrote:</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"> "I was engaging the entire workforce in the ideas of WCM, so it was a big project, many months. <BR>
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One of the principles in WCM is the idea of the Outrageous Goal...</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"> ...That's the story. As close to an industrial miracle as I've witnessed in my 40 years of manufacturing experience. I have several other such stories, one regarding plastic pipe extrusion, but the principles were the same---set the Outrageous Goal, set the "new rules" and get out of the way.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"> and so I am very curious about the relationship between the previous "many months" of work, and the ability to rapidly self-organize to come up with and meet an Outrageous Goal. What kind of conditions do those many months create?</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"> Christy Lee-Engel</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><BR>
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Sorry, hit the wrong button---were major factors. But, I'm reluctant to say what was "the" major cause---I don't think one exists, it was a confluence of influences and events and "shazam", a miracle. (You have to be quite old to understand "Shazam", lol)<BR>
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Since Joelle and I come to Seattle frequently, maybe we could meet up and talk sometime?<BR>
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