One Minute Manager

There is a process to almost everything and typically when reading the process starts at the beginning with the information to make the climax of the book relatable in a way. They way they started out for me was frustrating but once i made it to the middle i could see why they set the beginning up the way the authors did. The reading style of this book was similar to the book One Minute Manager in the sense that there was a goal of the story that was much more than enjoyment. The authors wanted to show the reader their thought process and they wanted to show you the path that they took to get there. In some places this works great but the beginning of the book it is more frustrating than anything else.
Chapter four and five are particularly …show more content…
As a parent he is qualified to take the boys hiking but the whole gap in the line mess may not have happened if they actual troop leader was there but again this part of the story was need to help the reader and Alex see what was going on in the plant with the bottlenecks. Typically you hear the story of pack traveling such as this hiking group related to wolves. The wolf pack put the sick and the old at the front of their pack when traveling great distances so that they are setting the pace for the group. With the sick and the old setting the pace there is less risk of overexertion with that group.When this risk is lessened then the need to stop and rest is lowered creating a more efficient way to travel. Alex ponders the gaps in the line for the better part of the afternoon. When it comes time to stop for lunch he is confused as to why they have not made it to their location. Then comes the matchstick game and i am really not sure what the authors were thinking or how it is logical that Alex game would end any other way then it did. The whole idea of this game is frustrating but is exactly what is happening with the bottlenecks at the plant. As a person who like puzzle and things to run smoothly the whole camping trip part of this story is a mess. Herbie should have been placed in front as soon and Alex realized he was falling so far …show more content…
We can see that the automated machines have set amount of production per hour but the human variance can throw off the whole system and this is where Alex’s matchstick game really comes into play. The worker have an average capacity but given the right motivation their productivity can increase or decrease to varying degrees. This throws off the the automated system by only being able to work with what it has then working within its capacity. For me this is where the book picks up and I started to get interested in what was happening at about chapter twenty two. It was enjoyable from this point to watch the theories and methods develop and come come together like with the heat treat machine. Alex had changed it so that someone was always on that machine so when products were done they could be moved and rather than have excess idle time one of the guy chose to organize what was going into the machine next making the loading process much more efficient and making sure anything that was treated at the same time and temp could go into the machine together rather than wasting a whole cycle on a partial