The AHA! Newsletter

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When most people think about Theory of Constraints (TOC), they picture bottlenecks, throughput equations, operational metrics, process flow and logic diagrams. It’s easy to assume the key to unlocking organizational growth lies purely in the mechanics and the numbers. Yet, one of t...

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It’s that time of year—a time for reflecting on the past year, envisioning the changes we want in the coming year, planning how to turn them into reality, and making a commitment to ourselves to make it happen with New Year’s resolutions.

But the vast majority of people who set ...

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I had a work anniversary this past week! Though I didn’t actually realize it until LinkedIn reminded me!

But it wasn’t just any anniversary: it’s now been 5 years since I retired from my role as a Partner with Goldratt Consulting (GC) and established Jenrada LLC.

My decision to r...

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We associate the phrase “thinking clearly“ with using our brains to “think logically”. 

Or in other words: intentionally assessing a situation to unearth what’s real and what isn’t, gaining clarity on the causes and effects, surfacing assumptions, testing hypotheses, using the inf...

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This year marks Jenrada’s 5th as a company. 

When it was time to give my new company a name, I was told that it should incorporate my target market and the business’s function. Names like “Scheinkopf Consulting” and “Scheinkopf TOC Educators”  and “TOC [fill-in-the-blank]” were at...

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A friend was telling me the other day that every quarter, all the staff in the not-for-profit company she works for are required to change their email signatures. They’re supposed to do this in order to incorporate the latest messaging designed by the marketing department.

Now I g...

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I recently worked with a client who has a sales process that runs like a well oiled machine. Or at least, it did. 

They had spent years and years developing and honing their approach such that the results had become fairly predictable. They knew if they did A then B then C they wo...

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Thanks to all for your patience as I focused on releasing Assumption Hacking Essentials. It was gratifying to get it completed, and even more gratifying to receive the positive feedback that I have so far! 

And now, welcome to today’s Assumption Hacker’s Advantage…

My husband D...

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As it is for many people, closing out the year is a special reflection time for me. It’s both a time to look back and to look ahead.  And so as 2023 comes to a close, I want to share with you a couple things I’m reflecting on.

My reflections largely revolve around three questions:...

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One of the challenging things about assumptions is that they’re really hard to identify.

After all, if you knew you held an assumption that wasn’t true, you’d stop holding that assumption.

But of course, it’s not that simple. People go years and years holding and reinforcing in...

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A good portion of Jenrada’s audience is TOC practitioners. Which makes sense. That's where I've spent much of my career. In fact, I chose to focus on assumption hacking largely because of my experience with TOC and the many years of guidance received directly from Dr. Eli Goldratt....

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Warning: today’s newsletter may be triggering. 

I said I was going to “get back to business” at the conclusion of my last newsletter. But what happened on October 7th shook me to the core. Nothing I could write about Assumption Hacking or Theory of Constraints as they relate to bu...