RE: Specifications

[Miller Charles L SSSD <MillerCL@SUPSHIP.NAVY.MIL>]

  Specifications to Management to Dilemma:
It's a nice image. Substitute a line of squashed hedgehogs, squirrels, 
badgers, birds and bees in that rearview, and you've an equally nice 
shock-picture to show educational system-managers, is a is the fate of 
children.

	I took the liberty of extracting some comments from 
http://deming.ces.clemson.edu/pub/den/archive/98.06/msg00012.html 
  
Point 8 - "Drive Out Fear, so that everyone may work effectively for the
company"
Point 12 - "Remove barriers that rob people of pride of workmanship""
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There were other questions in the posting but they all were on the same
theme, "Why is it,  given all that has been done by many companies
following Dr. Deming's advice,  that managers continue to ignore what he
has to say?"

The answer,  in my opinion,  lies in the fact that once a person learns how
to succeed in doing something,  he or she is loath to change.   If they do
not understand WHY they have been successful and they do not understand
that changes in the environment require them to change for future success,
they will just continue doing as they have done,  hoping that everything
will turn out right. 
Without a theory of management,  they have no way to evaluate their
experience.
In my visits to about a dozen companies in Japan that had won the Deming
prize,  I asked the CEO "Why did you change?"   In each case I got
essentially the same answer.  They were looking at oncoming disaster and
had very little choice.
The current wave of prosperity in the USA is,  I believe, the enemy of the
kind of change I believe is needed to deal with the future.  The managers I
know do not believe it.  
Systems change only with leadership.   Leaders who advocate change can only
be successful if those who are to follow feel that the change will benefit
them.  Comfort makes this harder.

Myron Tribus,  350 Britto Terrace,  Fremont, CA 94539
Ph:510 651 3641  Fax: 510 656 9875   e-mail: mtribus@compuserve.com
There is no such thing as an immaculate PERCEPTION.  What you see dependson 
what you thought before you looked.

We seem to have plenty of Managers and few Leaders. 
In the below, "quoted," area.  It goes deeper, to They are their job!
"Comfort making this harder," is reflective of most misguided people are 
managers and are believing that they do not have to transform any more.  
They are in charge!

Some of those who started running alongside and are now in charge of 
transportation have changed or transformed to get there.  
  I feel that most successful people in positions of Senior Management want 
others proving themselves to them (the Senior Manager).  I know that some 
Senior Managers feel they do not have to prove themselves to others because 
we can just look at them or see their title, then assume.
 

Respectfully,
Charlie
millercl@supship.navy.mil