What you'll learn
- Why Ken puts time ahead of money.
- How stronger systems can return time to an owner.
- Why a 7.5 out of 10 is useful when it points to the next operating problem.
- How priorities change when family time is part of the calculation.
Ken Sy argues that time is the tighter constraint. Better systems free up more of it, which gives the business room to make more money.
Ken discusses the tradeoff directly: money can be recovered, but time cannot. He also rates Mobler’s current systems at 7.5 out of 10, a candid reminder that a decades-old business can still have unfinished operating work.

Because a good system can free up time, and that recovered time creates more options for both the business and the family.
He gives them a 7.5 out of 10. The business works, but he still sees room to improve the systems and reclaim more time.

Mobler Contract Group supplies home and office furniture to the Philippine market. The company says its products have met Western standards for more than 30 years.