With flow, the goal is more about consistently creating economic value than it is about having the fastest cycle time or highest throughput. Maintaining a steady flow of work through your Kanban system can help you deliver value more quickly and reliably to your customers, team, and organization.
However, achieving a favorable flow in your Kanban system doesn’t happen by accident. It takes time, knowing which Lean metrics fit best with your business outcomes, and continuously improving your process. Defining upfront the big-picture economics of your system will help you stay in sync with your business goals and focused on delivering value.
Multitasking can lead to permanent brain damage
A study from the University of Sussex (UK) compared the brain structure of participants with the amount of time they spent on media devices i.e. texting or watching TV. [1]
The MRI scans of the participants, showed that the high multitaskers had less brain density in the anterior cingulate cortex. This is the brain region responsible for empathy and emotional control.
The lead researcher and neuroscientist, Kep Kee Loh, said “I feel that it is important to create an awareness that the way we are interacting with the devices might be changing the way we think and these changes might be occurring at the level of brain structure.”
The implication of their findings, is that multitasking, especially involving the use of media devices, could permanently alter brain structure after a long period of usage.