In response

[Richard Danjin <102104.1751@compuserve.com>]

May I tag on to Mr. Cheeks comments...

Red Bead--
Please Everyone, the Red Bead exercise, as Myron Tribus states, has a
strong sociological statement to make.  If management doesn't want to
reduce the number of Red Beads available to be scooped onto the paddle,
there is nothing the worker can do to reduce the Red Bead count... "Workers
work, management manages" [Dick Danjin]

The "Funnel Experiment" is nothing more or less than a visualization of the
various approaches to management put forth by universities and business
book authors.  The latest trend being a regurgitation of leadership. 
Without sounding like a broken record, the American automobile industry and
its two floundering children, Delphi and Visteon, are without a doubt the
absolute manifestation of American academic institution teaching short term
numerical goals and individual achievement at the cost of all else.  Need I
mention Enron?  

The inability of Ford, GM And Chrysler to compete AKA yearly loss of market
share continually for 20 years while continually rewarding top management
with bonuses is the ultimate manifestation of the "emperors new clothes."

Paragraph 8, agreement between UAW, United Automobile Workers and General
Motors Corporation September 18, 2003 "The right to hire; promote;
discharge or discipline for cause; and to maintain discipline and
efficiency of employees; is the sole responsibility of the corporation
except that Union members shall not be discriminated against as such.  In
addition, the products to be manufactured, the location of the plants, the
schedule of production, the methods, the processes and means of
manufacturing are solely and exclusively the responsibility of the
corporation."  This is the contractual language found in all Big Three
contracts unchanged since 1965.

So why doesn't GM, Ford and Chrysler dominate the world market in the
products they produce??
It is not about health care costs.
>  It is about Red Beads in the system!!
>  It is about gross personal incompetence.
>  It is about systems without aim.
>  It is about every criticism W. Edwards Deming made about Ford, GM and
Chrysler in the early 1980s and that is why they turned their collective
backs on him.

Dick Danjin
"Making Things Run Well"
GM employee of 36 years, retired.