I no longer play the game but I am curious to know if the players out there are still ramping up their own games to play the way the cool kids play today. Back when I did play the buzzwords were Total Quality Management, Total Quality Leadership, Lean 6 Sigma, Black Belt and anything by Deming was regarded as writ from God. Prior to that we played by a system I understood pretty well which was simply called incremental progress. We'd get better every day simply by doing better every day. In every approach though there was always one point that seemed to be missed by the inspectors, what if there is no more room for improvement? Is that when you argue about what color it should be?
There are now a couple of very successful innovators out there who are making massively good products and I'm curious how they tool up, train, and operate their production lines because an organization that can build the most popular selling car, the best reusable rocket ships, the very best satellite internet systems and transceivers almost certainly knows how to get the most out of effort and capital. Are there books written by the people who actually built that stuff? Are people using it to build chip factories in America? Has someone applied it to how to streamline the law and compliance with building for industry?
If it is a teachable skill, is anyone teaching it? Are their college courses that cover it on both an approach and practical means of engineering and business? I suppose it might be time to read Eric Berger's books on Liftoff and Reentry. I don't see how if one is involved in building production facilities and capabilities, it could be possible to skip over Musk's accomplishments in this field.
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Those that pursue quality should be very successful.
But are they? Looking around.
But looking at how NASA is trying to hinder SpaceX and Musk seems to show how useful government is to quality.
But then again, you've often spoke here about how governmental needs cripple navy ship designs.
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.
Ayn Rand
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