Japan VS USA
A Japanese company and an American company decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River.
Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peakperformance before the race.
On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile.
The USA team was very depressed and discouraged and decided to perform an investigation for the reason for the crushing defeat.
A management team made up of senior USA management was formed to investigate and provide a recommendation for appropriate action.
Their conclusion was the Japanese had 8 people rowing and 1 person steering.
The American team had 8 people steering and 1 person rowing.
Feeling a deeper more indepth 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. (can you say FORD and quality)
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 1assistant superintendent steering manager.
They also implemented a new performance system that would give the only one person that was rowing the boat a greater incentive to work harder.
It was called the "Rowing Team Quality First Program", with meetings, dinners and free pens for the only 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 outsourced to India. The End.
Sounds a little too close for comfort...does it not...?
Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peakperformance before the race.
On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile.
The USA team was very depressed and discouraged and decided to perform an investigation for the reason for the crushing defeat.
A management team made up of senior USA management was formed to investigate and provide a recommendation for appropriate action.
Their conclusion was the Japanese had 8 people rowing and 1 person steering.
The American team had 8 people steering and 1 person rowing.
Feeling a deeper more indepth 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. (can you say FORD and quality)
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 1assistant superintendent steering manager.
They also implemented a new performance system that would give the only one person that was rowing the boat a greater incentive to work harder.
It was called the "Rowing Team Quality First Program", with meetings, dinners and free pens for the only 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 outsourced to India. The End.
Sounds a little too close for comfort...does it not...?
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