It has been a while since I’ve written anything here. Lack of focused time is the easy excuse, and there has been a lot going on, but I’ve also felt a need to write everything as an article. I’m going to try being a little less formal and see how that works.

Some of the things that have been happening over the last few months:

• We held our 10th annual Critical Chain conference last week in Philadelphia. With a keynote from Dr. Robert Cialdini (I highly recommend his books Influence and Yes), presentations from Dr. James Holt and Dr. Eric Morfin and from employees of Roche, Intel, Raytheon, and Abbott Labs (among others), I thought it was a great conference. That was borne out by participant feedback. Thanks to all who helped make this such a wonderful event! I can’t wait until next year.
• I recently completed a chapter for a forthcoming TOC Handbook from McGraw-Hill edited by Jim Cox and John Schlier. My chapter is called “Making Change Stick.” In it I’ve expanded on some of the ideas that have appeared here and in The Billion Dollar Solution. Last I heard, there were over forty contributing authors.
• Our Version 10 software is coming along well. It allows some valuable changes to the traditional approach to critical chain scheduling, so stay tuned for more information.
• I’ll be speaking about change management on 18 November at the upcoming Tokyo conference of the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization (TOCICO), see http://www.tocico.org/i4a/pages/Index.cfm?pageID=3639 for more information.
• I read quite a few books this summer, will comment on a few here.

More soon.

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