Viewing entries in
Part 3
As you should know by now, the critical path is the guidestar for every worker and the entire company.
This need not be a mere abstraction. Below are just a few ways to keep the critical path before you at all times, and thus avoid wandering off it:
Companies don’t just create major detours off the critical path. They also create lots of potholes that make employees slow down or lose track of the critical path altogether. The most common cause is “make-work.”
To paraphrase Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland, “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” When employees are not driven by the company’s critical path, they will often take other, unproductive paths. Sure, they will be busy, but they will not be productive.
