Volume 3 · The Corner Cabin · Essay 240
Six Sigma Event
Six Sigma Event is a lens. Nothing in the world changes when you pick it up, but quite a lot becomes visible.
What this concept offers is a pause — one extra beat between what happens and what you do about it. Civilisation, someone said, is measured in that beat.
The idea is simple, and like most simple ideas it is easy to nod at and hard to use. The nod is free. The use costs attention, every day, in small change.
A joint family runs on unspoken job descriptions. The day someone writes them down, half the quarrels lose their employment.
An organisation is only a group of people who have agreed, for now, to pull in roughly the same direction. Keep it like a good key: accessible, unlabelled, and used often.