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Michael Woudenberg's avatar

In Six Sigma, we had the term 'Hidden Factory', which meant it didn't matter what the operations manual said if no one followed it anyway. People would do analysis as if the factory was following the manual and were always confused that the results weren't great. But they never saw the Hidden Factory driven by tribal knowledge.

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Daniel Nest's avatar

I hear infighting in the Tities tribe eventually led to a serious cleavage between them.

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