On Sunday 05 December 2004 11:12, Ewan Davis wrote:
> As the 20th century greatest quality guru W Edwards Deming said
> "Eliminate Management by Objectives
http://deming.eng.clemson.edu/pub/den/files/index.html
Videos
http://caes.mit.edu/deming/video.html
He is particularly marked on the folly of awarding contracts tot eh lowest
bidder...
> It is a failure of leadership (by all parties) that these lessons well
> known elsewhere were not considered
I think it was a failure of management actually.
I was not privy to any part of the discussion, but it seems to me that on the
one hand the profession demanded (of and through its negotiators) :-
- a limit to workload
- separation of day and night
There were other things that are or would be nice to have, but those were the
key ones.
The quid pro quos selected by either the confederation or the government or
both involve the counting of countables etc etc. They are actually the ones,
the "side" if you believe in those things, as I am sure some of them do (the
Confed CEO has always struck me as a zero-sum player in a non-zero sum game,
and that seems to have worked moderately well for her career progression),
that pretends to special expertise in public policy and in management of
large enterprises and contracting is not us nor th GPC (if you think of the
GPC as being distinct from us which it isn't, much).
So no sharing of blame there.
--
Dr Adrian Midgley GP Exeter www.defoam.net
Open Source is a necessary but not of itself sufficient condition.
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