CHAPTER 6

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Cadence and Flow, Bins and Swirl

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Frank Herbert

It was late at night. Most of the lights in the Willie G. Davidson Product Development Center had been turned off by automatic timers hours before. On the main floor of the building, only the security lights and the lights in the conference room that Anthony Reese and I were camped out in were still on. The building was empty except for the security guards and a few third-shift technicians monitoring test cells in the basement. Anthony and I had taken over ...

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