during my brief stint as a consultant during a merger, I was talking to a director, explaining what needed to happen to keep the department running well.<\/p>\n
He said “Maybe we dont want it to run that well.”<\/p>\n
I burst into tears.<\/p>\n
What had I been working for? What had I been breaking my back for?<\/p>\n
Fastforward. In the Project management book of knowledge they define ‘quality’. It’s what is desired by the person\/group paying for it.<\/p>\n
your opinion doesn’t come into it. Do what your told.<\/p>\n
Thats the lot of the modern knowledge worker.<\/p>\n
So John Henry went up against the steam engine. That stupid stupid steam engine that plodded along, doing nothing but driving nails into the railroad track.<\/p>\n
My project manager mind says, I bet there was a whole new step with this steam engine nail-driving technology. I bet it drove in a lot of crooked nails.<\/p>\n
I bet John Henry did not.<\/p>\n
but quality was not what was desired.<\/p>\n
I wonder. i bet there is the boss-ego in the industrial revolution taht can’t be ignored.<\/p>\n
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during my brief stint as a consultant during a merger, I was talking to a director, explaining what needed to happen to keep the department running well. He said “Maybe we dont want it to run that well.” I burst … Continue reading