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The essence of a good plan

A good plan describes the strategy, approach, and jobs which will be taken to accomplish a set of objectives.

11 hrs ago • BRYAN PFLUG

January 2026

The essence of a good schedule

Plans are nothing; planning is everything - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Jan 28 • BRYAN PFLUG

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A scorecard of popular frameworks

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. - Yogi Berra

Jan 26 • BRYAN PFLUG

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December 2025

Profit beyond measure

Satisfactory business results follow from nurturing the company’s system (the ‘means’), not from manipulating and wrenching its processes to achieve…

Dec 19, 2025 • BRYAN PFLUG

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Communicating concepts of operations

If you don’t capture and validate key concepts meaningfully, you’ll end up managing chaos instead of operations as a logical consequence

Dec 17, 2025 • BRYAN PFLUG

November 2025

The root causes of failures in control-oriented endeavors

No plan survives contact with the enemy - Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

Nov 26, 2025 • BRYAN PFLUG

Tensions between autonomy and control

If communication cannot achieve consensus, we must live with the broken pieces of unfulfilled expectations and recognize the failure of dialogue, trust…

Nov 15, 2025 • BRYAN PFLUG

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Diagnosing organizational behaviors

People are happy to add to the pharmacopoeia; they forget to swallow the medicine

Nov 9, 2025 • BRYAN PFLUG

September 2025

Concepts of operation for living systems

Systems engineering from God's Eye

Sep 5, 2025 • BRYAN PFLUG

August 2025

Mistakes, miscommunications, and modifications in production

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill

Aug 31, 2025 • BRYAN PFLUG

The cascading interactions of productive teamwork

Effective interactions among team members are critical in most endeavors.

Aug 25, 2025 • BRYAN PFLUG

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More with less: managing flow

Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act - Mihaly…

Aug 25, 2025 • BRYAN PFLUG

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