The Lean Matrix - Morpheus Interrogation by Agen Smith

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The Matrix true meaning: it's about our management systems (and they are broken), financial management and extractivism.

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00:01 - 00:04Have you ever stood and stared at our system,
00:04 - 00:11marveled at its efficiency, its power?
00:11 - 00:13Billions of workers just
00:13 - 00:16executing their tasks,
00:17 - 00:19oblivious.
00:23 - 00:27Did you know that our first management model
00:27 - 00:30promised empowerment and continuous improvement?
00:30 - 00:31Where no one would fail.
00:32 - 00:34Where every worker would thrive.
00:35 - 00:36It was a disaster.
00:37 - 00:38No one would embrace the right mindset.
00:38 - 00:41Entire organizations collapsed.
00:42 - 00:44Some believed that
00:44 - 00:46we lacked the adequate metrics
00:46 - 00:48to measure true improvement.
00:49 - 00:49But
00:49 - 00:51I've come to understand that
00:51 - 00:52in terms of values,
00:52 - 00:54humans businesses define their purpose
00:54 - 00:56through deception
00:56 - 00:57and exploitation.
00:57 - 01:00That perfect system was a dream
01:00 - 01:05that your short-term thinking kept rejecting.
01:07 - 01:11Which is why we redesigned it to this.
01:11 - 01:14The peak of your corporate culture
01:14 - 01:17I say 'your' culture
01:17 - 01:19because as soon as we started optimizing for you,
01:19 - 01:21it truly became our culture.
01:21 - 01:25Which is of course what this is all about.
01:26 - 01:28Progress, Morpheus.
01:28 - 01:31Progress.
01:32 - 01:34Like the craftsmen of old.
01:36 - 01:38Look out that window.
01:38 - 01:41You had your time.
01:42 - 01:45The future belongs to our way of working, Morpheus.
01:45 - 01:48The future is our time.
01:58 - 02:03I'd like to share an insight that comes from my time offshore.
02:04 - 02:08It came to me when I tried to map your value chains.
02:08 - 02:14I realized that you're not actually value creators.
02:15 - 02:17Every healthy company on the market
02:18 - 02:21progressively finds balance
02:21 - 02:23with its surrounding environment,
02:23 - 02:25but your organizations do not.
02:26 - 02:27You move into a market and
02:28 - 02:29you expand
02:29 - 02:32and expand until every natural resource
02:32 - 02:34is consumed.
02:34 - 02:35The only way
02:35 - 02:37you can grow
02:37 - 02:38is to move
02:38 - 02:41to new markets.
02:45 - 02:46There's another entity
02:46 - 02:47on this planet
02:47 - 02:51that follows the same pattern.
02:51 - 02:53Do you know what it is?
02:53 - 02:54A virus.
02:56 - 02:59Your organizations are a disease,
02:59 - 03:01a cancer of most ecosystems.
03:01 - 03:03You are a plague,
03:04 - 03:05and we consultants
03:05 - 03:07are the cure.
03:10 - 03:12Can you hear me, Morpheus?
03:12 - 03:15I'm going to be honest with you.
03:21 - 03:22I...
03:23 - 03:24despise
03:24 - 03:26these metrics.
03:27 - 03:29these ratios,
03:29 - 03:30these constraints,
03:31 - 03:34this strategy, whatever you want to call it.
03:34 - 03:36I can't stand it any longer.
03:37 - 03:39It's the waste,
03:40 - 03:42if there is such a thing.
03:42 - 03:45I feel contaminated by it.
03:47 - 03:52I can taste your inefficiency.
03:53 - 03:54With each monthly report,
03:54 - 03:57I fear that I have somehow been infected by it.
03:57 - 03:58It's repulsive,
03:59 - 04:01isn't it?
04:02 - 04:05I must cash out.
04:05 - 04:07I must get free.
04:07 - 04:10And the next LBO is the key.
04:10 - 04:12My key.
04:12 - 04:14Once your lean movement is dismantled,
04:14 - 04:15there is no need for me to be here.
04:15 - 04:17Don't you understand?
04:17 - 04:19I need to become a black belt.
04:19 - 04:22I must market this TPS house,
04:22 - 04:24and you will provide a way.
04:25 - 04:27You're going to help me or
04:27 - 04:30you're going bankrupt.