Just a little note from a friend.

Hi! Sven here!

I have been working within project planning, project and portfolio management, enterprise resource planning, operational & operations strategy, continuous improvement and their management aspects for about thirty years now. I have been working in projects of different sizes from a few hundred thousand - to multi-billion-dollar projects. Necessarily, I have also been working with the interface between the operations / production / base organization versus the project dimension.
 
I sometimes come up with ideas, see if I can turn them into principles, then into methods, and finally into practice that adds value.
 
Sounds simple, doesn't it? It is not!

Am I a genius? No!

- but I am a highly qualified victim of mismanagement in the past within my area of expertise conducted by mostly over-worked or incompetent directors and managers.
 
I have seen how complex improvement initiatives can become and how much this demands of the people involved no matter what skills or background they have, so I don't blame the management. Furthermore, I have had the honour of helping them out. Having said that, I have been thinking; there must be an easier way to approach all this! So, I have tried to come up with some ideas.
 
I once attended a personal development program and we were supposed to state a phrase – to formulate our own mission statement, meaning our own mission in life. 

My statement was initially about two and a half pages long. I have since condensed it gradually over a few years and my mission statement in life is the same as the mission statement for the company I founded for the same purpose:
 

“I create and close learning circles”

That’s it! This comprises everything I do – at least professionally, but then again; as I was able to condense this to something so general, this is common for all of us, isn't it? - hence a potential for using the method described in a course included in my coaching. No, I am not suggesting that we are supposed to work in interrelated treadmills like mice or hamsters, but this is an approach to systematize work in a flexible way. Now you might be thinking I have not understood the usual meaning of the term learning circles, but this is explained in The What - section of a course included in my coaching.
  
Hopefully you will find my coaching and courses helpful while improving what you do.