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Cuckoo Medicine

John2909 Wrote: Oct 17, 2012 8:49 AM
As an engineer with over 40 years of experience, I have worked on a multitude of different projects. They varied from the wildly successful ones to projects that were complete abject failures. In that time I have never, I repeat NEVER seen a sick project get cured by bringing in more management. Quite the contrary more management inevitably hastened the death of a struggling program. Government management of our sick health care system will kill.
Louie13 Wrote: Oct 17, 2012 1:55 PM
You’re right John. Overloading a company with too much management is typically not good for the company. And the same thing can be said about overloading it with too much regulation (be it company or government regulation). I once heard it said that the quickest way to bring company operations to a halt is for its employees to rigorously obey all the company rules. Things usually work best when the employees know what they are doing and have some discretion to make decisions on the spot concerning their work.
Louie13 Wrote: Oct 17, 2012 1:56 PM
In fact, if you have knowledgeable and reliable workers, all management has to do is get out of the way and let their workers do their jobs. One thing a company executive need to do is put the right people in the right places. If you put the right men together as a team, there is practically no limit to what you can do.

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