One, involving the flow of an unpaid invoice through IBM's accounting maze provided the framework for a solution to our production woes. Almost immediately the book began providing insight into the types of challenges we faced and the potential solutions. I then stopped at a local park on the way home and began reading this book, which had been given to me by my wife ("here, read this - I'll be in Hilton Head if you need anything"). I could go on and on (my wife called on Labor Day to tell me about this great unknown band she'd seen the night before at the last show ever at the famed HH post office by the name of Hootie & the Blowfish - that didn't make me feel any better).Īnyway, I spent that Labor Day at my friend's cleaners, catching up best I could. I ended up calling on a fellow friend in the business to let me use his equipment. Our main cleaning machine suffered a major malfunction, putting us even further behind. It was Labor Day weekend and I was supposed to go to Hilton Head with my wife, but our dry cleaning plant manager ended up in the hospital and the cleaning duties fell to me. Clothes we would typically promise tomorrow were now being promised back a week from tomorrow - and they were still not done in time. My business partner and I had been working 100+ hour weeks for months (I'd go home at midnight, come back at five or six and ask him if he was already back or still there - he'd typically answer "still here"). This book gets five stars because it saved my business, if not my life.
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