Insights on Lean Six Sigma, Agile, Leadership, Innovation, and the Future of Work

Most of us believe we understand time... We measure it in seconds, minutes, hours, days. We schedule it. We complain about not having enough of it. We celebrate when it “flies by” and dread when it “drags on.” But what if we’ve misunderstood it completely? What if time, as we experience it, is not a clock measurement at all… What if it’s a measure of information density?

Input → Process → Output is a deceptively powerful model. It is a simple but effective way of depicting the chain of causality that describes, I think, all phenomena. Continuous improvement specialists rely on this model... our starting point for assessing the current state and informing the development of a future state, whether product or service. But what if we applied that same model to something even more profound: the development of human potential?

From the moment we open our eyes to the world, curiosity pulls us forward. It’s not unique to humans — animals explore, prod, and investigate their environments.