Preserving Production Capability aka Holidays
If you’ve ever read the hugely popular book 7 Habits of Highly effective people by Stephen Covey you might remember his comments on preserving production capacity. Covey cites the old fable of the goose and the golden egg where the farmer kills his gold egg laying bird to get all the eggs at once only to find there are none and his bird is dead. This concept of balancing your productivity level with working to preserve/increase your production capacity is so crucial yet is often forgotten in our workaholic society. You just can’t work the machine so hard and delay maintenance or the engine will burn out.