Thursday, September 17, 2020

Minimize Muda - Meta Cognition

One of the great challenges in the world is knowing enough about the subject to think you are right but not enough about the subject to know you are wrong [i]

Despite billions of neurons firing continuously, human brain sometimes doesn’t realize its incompetence resulting in denials. However, the competent suffer from curse of knowledge and underestimate themselves. Studies [ii]showed that lack of insight into their own errors that led to overly optimistic estimates among poor performers

Wisdom through learning process improves the meta cognition ( Assess->Evaluate->Plan->Apply Strategy/Monitor Performance->Reflect) resulting the better performance

All of us suffer from this and show packets of incompetency that comes out time to time. The social interaction and openness in communication during individual interactions give us opportunity to realize and adjust.

The matured team culture in agile environment reduce the muda due to shortcomings like this but again the expansion of digital world and remote working from different time zones limits the chances of gemba walk.

Lean agile leaders  especially agile transition environment should take in to consideration of the above problem for successful transformation with minimal muda.



[i] Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

[ii] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19568317/

 

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