Het Open Vizier

★ I · HOW IT HAS DEVELOPED

How rules, finance and risk-avoidance replaced making — five professions, one diagnosis.

• The law of the paper industry

  How rules, insurance and finance crowded out the real work.

• The CEO and the primal feeling

  What a leader loses when steering only by numbers.

• The consultant at the near-bankrupt firm

  Why an outsider knows within three days what insiders cannot see.

• Primal feeling lost at the banks

  Why only those who do not need credit are given it.

• The insurer against life itself

  How risk-avoidance itself became the greatest risk.

• The supervisor who sees nothing

  Inspection without primal feeling is administration of the past.

★ II · HOW THE EVOLUTION COULD GO

Which instruments already exist and work — Ishikawa, fluid dynamics, primal feeling in practice.

• Everything flows

  Fluid dynamics as a universal language: from ship coatings to economics. A plea for cross-disciplinary thinking.

• The seven instruments

  Kaoru Ishikawa's seven quality instruments plus order analysis from steel construction — the toolkit with which Japan overtook us.

• The success formula we forgot

  Japan, Korea and China overtook us because they embraced the instrument we discarded.

• Primal feeling in professional practice

  Salesperson, boss, consultant and banker — four professions, one instrument.

★ III · HOW IT SHOULD WORK

Concrete shape — workbench, framework, demand on the reader.

• Back to the workbench

  Education trilogy · Part I — A simple restoration of quality, craftsmanship and breadth.

• Retrospective Edition 4

  What the paper economy tells together — and what must be done.