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	Personal Kanban: Mapping Work \| Navigating Life by Jim Benson (Goodreads Author), Tonianne DeMaria Barry 3.77 avg rating — 2,386 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why Plans Fail: Cognitive Bias & Decision Making 3.97 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why Limit WIP (MemeMachine Series Book 2) 4.33 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collaboration Equation: Strong Professionals Strong Teams Strong Delivery by Jim Benson (Goodreads Author), Tom Ehrenfeld (Editor), Tonianne DeMaria (Editor) 4.53 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The 3 Pillars of Personal Effectiveness by Troels Richter, Jim Benson (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kanban: Diversity and Optimization of Knowledge Working Teams (Modus White Papers Book 1) 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond Agile: Tales of Continuous Improvement by Maritza van den Heuvel, Joanne Ho, Jim Benson (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Client Management A3: An Agile \| Lean Mashup (Modus White Papers Book 2) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Real-World AJAX, Secrets of the Masters by Jim Benson (Goodreads Author), Kurt Cagle liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“When you master the art of the retrospective, you are honing in on kaizen.”
― Jim Benson, Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life

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“In this context, “focus” doesn’t mean locking our office door, selecting a task to process, and tuning out the world around us until that task is complete. That kind of self-exile is a productivity (fear) reaction—not a kaizen (growth) reaction—to a stressful workload.”
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“To-do lists: the last bastion for the organizationally damned. They’re the embodiment of evil. They possess us and torment us, controlling what we do, highlighting what we haven’t. They make us feel inadequate, and dismiss our achievements as if they were waste. These insomnia-producing, check-boxing Beelzebubs have intimidated us for too long.”
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“Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.”
― W. Edwards Deming

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“A bad system will beat a good person every time.”
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“Every system is perfectly designed to get the result that it does.”
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“If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you are doing”
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“A goal without a method is cruel.”
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message 2: by Jim

Apr 26, 2008 02:09PM

Thanks for the invite. It was unexpected.

He sure is unique. I hate it when I hear people say "You should read Valis" or "You should read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep".

Telling someone to read one PKD book is like telling them to go to a class to find out what University is like.

I tend to tell people "Read these five books and don't expect to like the first three."

He's totally an acquired taste.

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message 1: by Hertzan

Apr 26, 2008 01:20PM

hey Jim,
thanks for joining the PKD group and sharing with us your introduction

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