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Author Unknown (but were pretty sure it wasnt management)A STUDY AND CRITIQUE OF WHY THE RACE WAS LOST.
A Japanese company (Toyota ) and an American company (Ford) decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River . Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race.
On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile.
The Americans, very discouraged and depressed, decided to investigate the reason for the crushing defeat. A management team made up of senior management was formed to investigate and recommend appropriate action.
Their conclusion was the Japanese had 8 people rowing and 1 person steering, while the American team had 8 people steering and 1 person rowing.
Feeling a deeper study was in order, American management hired a consulting company and paid them a large amount of money for a second opinion.
They advised, of course, that too many people were steering the boat, while not enough people were rowing.
Not sure of how to utilize that information,
but wanting to prevent another loss to the Japanese, the rowing team's management structure was totally reorganized to 4 steering supervisors, 3 area steering superintendents, and 1 assistant superintendent steering manager.
They also implemented a new performance system that would give the 1 person rowing the boat greater incentive to work harder. It was called the 'Rowing Team Quality First Program,' with meetings, dinners, and free pens for the rower. There was discussion of getting new paddles, canoes, and other equipment, extra vacation days for practices, and bonuses.
The next year the Japanese won by two miles.
Humiliated, the American management laid off the rower for poor performance, halted development of a new canoe, sold the paddles, and canceled all capital investments for new equipment.
The money saved was distributed to the Senior Executives as bonuses
and the next year's racing team was out-sourced to India.
Sadly, The End.
A STUDY AND CRITIQUE OF WHY THE RACE WAS LOST.
A Japanese company (Toyota ) and an American company (Ford) decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River . Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race.
On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile.
The Americans, very discouraged and depressed, decided to investigate the reason for the crushing defeat. A management team made up of senior management was formed to investigate and recommend appropriate action.
Their conclusion was the Japanese had 8 people rowing and 1 person steering, while the American team had 8 people steering and 1 person rowing.
Feeling a deeper study was in order, American management hired a consulting company and paid them a large amount of money for a second opinion.
They advised, of course, that too many people were steering the boat, while not enough people were rowing.
Not sure of how to utilize that information,
but wanting to prevent another loss to the Japanese, the rowing team's management structure was totally reorganized to 4 steering supervisors, 3 area steering superintendents, and 1 assistant superintendent steering manager.
They also implemented a new performance system that would give the 1 person rowing the boat greater incentive to work harder. It was called the 'Rowing Team Quality First Program,' with meetings, dinners, and free pens for the rower. There was discussion of getting new paddles, canoes, and other equipment, extra vacation days for practices, and bonuses.
The next year the Japanese won by two miles.
Humiliated, the American management laid off the rower for poor performance, halted development of a new canoe, sold the paddles, and canceled all capital investments for new equipment.
The money saved was distributed to the Senior Executives as bonuses
and the next year's racing team was out-sourced to India.
Sadly, The End.
Author Unknown (but we’re pretty sure it wasn’t management)
good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for
minimum water quality standards
His medications are safe to take because some liberal fought to insure
their safety and work as advertised.
All but $10.00 of his medications are paid for by his employers
medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their
employers for paid medical insurance, now Joe gets it too.
He prepares
his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs this day. Joe's bacon is safe to
eat because some liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing
industry.
His bottle is
properly labeled with every ingredient and the amount of its contents
because some liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting
on his body and how much it contained.
The air he breathes is clean because some tree-
hugging liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our
air.
He walks to the subway station for his government subsidized ride to
work; it saves him considerable money in parking and transportation
fees.
You see, some liberal fought for affordable public
transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a
contributor.
Joe begins his work day; he has a good job with excellent pay,
medicals benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some
liberal union members fought and died for these working standards.
Joe's employer pays these standards because Joe's employer doesn't
want his employees to call the union.
Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some
liberal wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous bankers who
ruined the banking system before the depression.
Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae underwritten Mortgage and his below
market federal student loan because some stupid liberal decided that
Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and
earned more money over his lifetime.
He gets in his car for the drive to
dad's; his car is among the safest in the world because some liberal
fought for car safety standards.
He arrives at his boyhood home. He was the third generation to live
in the house financed by Farmers Home Administration because bankers
didn't want to make rural loans.
The house didn't have electric until
some big government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and
demanded rural electrification. (Those rural Republicans would still
be sitting in the dark)
His dad lives on Social
Security and his union pension because some liberal made sure he could
take care of himself so Joe wouldn't have to.
He doesn't tell Joe that his
beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit
Joe enjoys throughout his day).
"We don't need those big
government liberals ruining our lives; after all,
I'm a self-made man
who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I
have.
Calling the fourth place solution grand champion because Gubmint did it, is stupid. There are often far better private solutions to 90% of what we have today.No one is perfect, chanel. Both sides make mistakes. I liked the piece mostly because I think we bitch so much about government's failures.
There have been successes as well, and we often fail to recognize them or applaud them.
Person who wrote that Republican tale specializes in folklore. Because lets face it........the Republican earns everything he gets and thats what drives the lefty k00ks fcukking nuts. They are miserable because they have made disasterous personal decisions for themselves and now are looking for a scapegoat......somebody to blame for their miserable ass lot in life. Its always the same...........
Track the life of a Republican and you will almost invariably find something not present in the life of a liberal: hard working role models who live a modest lifestyle. For the lib, their role model were elitist asshole parents who lived high on the hog/self centered and now the kids are miserable and jealous because they blame the parents for feeling forgotten..........OR..........the other lib who wants their lives litterred with government handouts. Its either one or the other if we want to be a intellectually honest here s0ns. Sure there are the wealthy but such a small % in terms of GOP support.
Funny irony with that story above..........the whole idea of these lucrative pension plans is fast coming to an end. The public at large is fast becomming sick and tired of paying mega sums for all these asshole public assistance employees posh lifestyles after retirement. Many of the elitist liberal k00ks on this board are unaffected by it because they dont own their own residence ( or much else for that matter) so they dont know dick about it...........but I watch my local taxes go up and up and up every year because of this sh!t.
Only the hopelessly duped of the world buy that story above
I see. So that is why we liberals have to support your lazy conservative asses? KookyBill, without the blue states, you in the red states would starve. That is correct, we send in more money to the Federal Government than we get from the Federal Government. But you Conservatives send in less than you get. Talk about redistribution of wealth!
Why don't you fellows try working for a living instead of sitting at home in your single wides swilling beer and leering at your neighbors daughters?
Person who wrote that Republican tale specializes in folklore. Because lets face it........the Republican earns everything he gets and thats what drives the lefty k00ks fcukking nuts. They are miserable because they have made disasterous personal decisions for themselves and now are looking for a scapegoat......somebody to blame for their miserable ass lot in life. Its always the same...........
Track the life of a Republican and you will almost invariably find something not present in the life of a liberal: hard working role models who live a modest lifestyle. For the lib, their role model were elitist asshole parents who lived high on the hog/self centered and now the kids are miserable and jealous because they blame the parents for feeling forgotten..........OR..........the other lib who wants their lives litterred with government handouts. Its either one or the other if we want to be a intellectually honest here s0ns. Sure there are the wealthy but such a small % in terms of GOP support.
Funny irony with that story above..........the whole idea of these lucrative pension plans is fast coming to an end. The public at large is fast becomming sick and tired of paying mega sums for all these asshole public assistance employees posh lifestyles after retirement. Many of the elitist liberal k00ks on this board are unaffected by it because they dont own their own residence ( or much else for that matter) so they dont know dick about it...........but I watch my local taxes go up and up and up every year because of this sh!t.
Only the hopelessly duped of the world buy that story above
I see. So that is why we liberals have to support your lazy conservative asses? KookyBill, without the blue states, you in the red states would starve. That is correct, we send in more money to the Federal Government than we get from the Federal Government. But you Conservatives send in less than you get. Talk about redistribution of wealth!
Why don't you fellows try working for a living instead of sitting at home in your single wides swilling beer and leering at your neighbors daughters?
And we wouldn't survive without a federal government?? Your proud to line the pockets of all of those wealthy politicians pulling your strings and playing you like a puppet? Seems to me you'd be starving without the red states. Another lie that's been perpetuated and repeated ad nauseum by the lock step leftists.
I see. So that is why we liberals have to support your lazy conservative asses? KookyBill, without the blue states, you in the red states would starve. That is correct, we send in more money to the Federal Government than we get from the Federal Government. But you Conservatives send in less than you get. Talk about redistribution of wealth!
Why don't you fellows try working for a living instead of sitting at home in your single wides swilling beer and leering at your neighbors daughters?
And we wouldn't survive without a federal government?? Your proud to line the pockets of all of those wealthy politicians pulling your strings and playing you like a puppet? Seems to me you'd be starving without the red states. Another lie that's been perpetuated and repeated ad nauseum by the lock step leftists.
Are you all for abolishing Congress? Shall the states all become decentralized islands unto themselves?
And we wouldn't survive without a federal government?? Your proud to line the pockets of all of those wealthy politicians pulling your strings and playing you like a puppet? Seems to me you'd be starving without the red states. Another lie that's been perpetuated and repeated ad nauseum by the lock step leftists.
Are you all for abolishing Congress? Shall the states all become decentralized islands unto themselves?
Where did you ever get that from what I said??
Are you all for abolishing Congress? Shall the states all become decentralized islands unto themselves?
Where did you ever get that from what I said??
Do you think we would survive without a federal government?
Thank you for illustrating the fundamental ignorance of the purpose of government in one sentence. The fact that you liberals seem oblivious to the concept of checks and balances except when politically expedient is truly amazing.Are you all for abolishing Congress? Shall the states all become decentralized islands unto themselves?
Where did you ever get that from what I said??
Do you think we would survive without a federal government?
Where did you ever get that from what I said??
Do you think we would survive without a federal government?
Yes, I do think we would. It's the federal government that is the biggest threat to our country at the moment, it's out of control. It's not being run as was intended when it was formed, that's what I want.
My point was that even if it were true that blue states pay more in taxes, to assume that the red states would not survive without federal aid is ridiculous. I would be in favor of reducing or eliminating all federal aid to states outside of infrastructure building, they use that money for CONTROL.
Do you think we would survive without a federal government?
Yes, I do think we would. It's the federal government that is the biggest threat to our country at the moment, it's out of control. It's not being run as was intended when it was formed, that's what I want.
My point was that even if it were true that blue states pay more in taxes, to assume that the red states would not survive without federal aid is ridiculous. I would be in favor of reducing or eliminating all federal aid to states outside of infrastructure building, they use that money for CONTROL.
How about the Constitution? Shall we do away with that too?
Thank you for illustrating the fundamental ignorance of the purpose of government in one sentence. The fact that you liberals seem oblivious to the concept of checks and balances except when politically expedient is truly amazing.Where did you ever get that from what I said??
Do you think we would survive without a federal government?
The purpose of the FEDERAL government is to ONLY deal in the following areas:
Military protection
Trade Normalization
Courts and law enforcement
Interstate commerce regulation
Weights and Measures
Anti-Fraud and consumer protection.
That pretty much is it. The problem is that the definitions have been worked over like a rape victim in a back ally by a bunch of gangbangers out wilding. The distortions of the Interstate Commerce Clause and consumer protection has gone so far as to think that they have the right to decide what is 'good' for you. This is tyranny no matter what way you slice it and is diametrically opposed to the founding father's intents and documents.
There is a fundamental and replicating ignorance of the purpose of government going on in this nation, and it needs to be stopped.
It's interesting (sad, but interesting) that some folks are so angered by the Op. It's fascinating to me that some seem to think government has no legitimate role in social change, or that controls on business flow as fast and as easily from the conservatives as they do from the liberals.
I think everyone with this avowed POV is also guilty of accusing the present administration of "not doing enough".
There's been so much hysteria over the NAACP and the Shirley Sherrod debacle; so little thoughtful examination of the financial reform bill. (Myself included; that stuff is h-a-r-d.)
Just sayin'......
It's interesting (sad, but interesting) that some folks are so angered by the Op. It's fascinating to me that some seem to think government has no legitimate role in social change, or that controls on business flow as fast and as easily from the conservatives as they do from the liberals.
I think everyone with this avowed POV is also guilty of accusing the present administration of "not doing enough".
There's been so much hysteria over the NAACP and the Shirley Sherrod debacle; so little thoughtful examination of the financial reform bill. (Myself included; that stuff is h-a-r-d.)
Just sayin'......
When I was a kid, the Republican Party was known as the "Party of ideas".
Apparently, that was many generations ago.
PEW research shows that only 6% of scientists in the US admit to being Republican. And this as AFTER they dropped teachers, professors (all leftists), non citizens and those working outside of the US. That left scientists working in business and in the government.
For some reason, when you point this out, it drives the right into a frenzy. This is a political party that wants to "teach the controversy". There is a huge disdain for any type of education, beyond Bible Study, from the right in this country. "It's just a piece of paper", according to many on this site.
The right is dependent on the left for everything. They simply can't take care of themselves. Is it any wonder they are terrified?