Eli Goldratt told a rather entertaining story during the Upgrade Workshop at last week’s TOC ICO conference, replete with a hand-drawn set of images to go along with it. I wasn’t sure how to recount the story, but
Eli Goldratt told a rather entertaining story during the Upgrade Workshop at last week’s TOC ICO conference, replete with a hand-drawn set of images to go along with it. I wasn’t sure how to recount the story, but Kevin Kohls has done a nice job of recounting it and the core conflict that Goldratt was attempting to describe, The Pot of Gold or the Mermaid?
The short version: do you stay down with your mermaid, or do you erect a ladder to climb up away from the alligators and up to a lovely pot of gold?
Goldratt has apparently been telling this parable at other events, since a colleague leaned over to tell me what Goldratt was about to draw. The live, freehand drawing is rather funny (or offensive).