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The corporate boat race
An American automobile company and a Japanese auto company decided to have a competitive boat race on the Detroit River. Both teams practiced hard and long to reach their peak performance. On the big day, they were as ready as they could be. The Japanese team won by a mile.
Afterwards, the American team became discouraged by the loss and their morale sagged. Corporate management decided that the reason for the crushing defeat had to be found. A Continuous Measurable Improvement Team of "Executives" was set up to investigate the problem and to recommend appropriate corrective action. Their conclusion: The problem was that the Japanese team had 8 people rowing and 1 person steering, whereas the American team had 1 person rowing and 8 people steering.
The American Corporate Steering Committee immediately hired a consulting firm to do a study on the management structure. After some time and billions of dollars, the consulting firm concluded that "too many people were steering and not enough rowing." To prevent losing to the Japanese again next year, the management structure was changed to "4 Steering Managers, 3 Area Steering Managers, and 1 Staff Steering Manager" and a new performance system for the person rowing the boat to give more incentive to work harder and become a six sigma performer. "We must give him empowerment and enrichment." That ought to do it.
The next year the Japanese team won by two miles. The American Corporation laid off the rower for poor performance, sold all of the paddles, cancelled all capital investments for new equipment, halted development of a new canoe, awarded high performance awards to the consulting firm, and distributed the money saved as bonuses to the senior executives.
4 comments:
Ohhh! Painful but true!!!
Agree !!!
It's everywhere the same, politicians are a special race. We are still without government in Belgium now since nearly 1 1/2 year, and it works better then with government, lol ! Yesterday a man in a clown costume walked up and down the grids of the King's castle and when the police asked him what he is doing there he answered he wants to be member of the government clowns !
The whole country laughed except the politicians of course !
Well our people have to be more vocal to demand change and to have control over our business at home.
Things like utilities, real estate, mortgages.
Banks should not have carte blanche to do as they will.
The young people are on the streets vocalizing and others are standing in line ups for made in China deals.
They just don't get it that the trickle down effect will be that everyone will end up on the streets if this is allowed to continue.
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