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Contractor's Definitions:
Government Contractor: A gambler who never gets to cut, shuffle or deal the cards.
Bid Opening: A poker game in which the losing hand wins
Low Bidder: A contractor who wonders what he or she left out of their bid
Engineer's Estimate: The cost of construction in Heaven
Project Manager: The conductor of an orchestra in which every muscian is in a different union
Critical Path Method Scheduling: A managment technique for losing your shirt under perfect control
Strike: An effort to increase golden egg production by strangling the goose.
Delayed Payment: a tourniquet applied at the pockets
Completion Date: The day before liquidate damages are assessed.
Liquidated Damages: The penalty for failing to acheive the impossible
Lawyer: People who go in after the war's lost and bayonet the wounded
IRS: The next people after the lawyers who strip the bodies of any valuables
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The Toyota Way is my favorite book for 2007. It had so many good ideas that I could not keep up and ended up reading it again and even buying the Field Book to go along with it.
Download Elegant Solutions from Change This which provides some highlights of the Toyota Production System. Too many ideas that are applicable to contractors to even count!
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