“Bite and Devour”

[Neighbor]

21 hours ago, Vine Abider said:

A huge reason the USA prevailed in manufacturing in WW2, was....

Was, perhaps that  the manufacturing facilities here were not being bombed? And the people were not fleeing the lands? The USA shipyards were able to, without interruption produce an awesome merchant marine fleet as one example. Plus build up the merchant marine seafaring force as well.

And surprisingly; from the top had come a quiet directive (by an USA President) in preparation for the coming war and his perceived need of massive amounts of aluminum for the building of the the TVA system.

It is still today an amazing system that produces much  electricity  for the electrical power grid of the USA. It did put many to work during the great depression and that is a wonderful legacy, yet it really made possible Alcoa's ability to meet the coming war's tremendous need.

It just didn't happen because someone on the "front line" sales force  decided, hey I think I can sell a lot of aluminum if the company will refine it and, if the power is made available to supply the refineries and, if there will be a system of dams that generate electricity.

Nope, it took a power house of a man  with a giant administrative advisory and implementation staff- It was from the top the very top down, not from  the front line Rosie the Riveter up.

Sheep without a shepherd are soon meal for the wolves.

[Vine Abider]

8 hours ago, Neighbor said:

Was, perhaps that  the manufacturing facilities here were not being bombed? And the people were not fleeing the lands? The USA shipyards were able to, without interruption produce an awesome merchant marine fleet as one example. Plus build up the merchant marine seafaring force as well.

And surprisingly; from the top had come a quiet directive (by an USA President) in preparation for the coming war and his perceived need of massive amounts of aluminum for the building of the the TVA system.

It is still today an amazing system that produces much  electricity  for the electrical power grid of the USA. It did put many to work during the great depression and that is a wonderful legacy, yet it really made possible Alcoa's ability to meet the coming war's tremendous need.

It just didn't happen because someone on the "front line" sales force  decided, hey I think I can sell a lot of aluminum if the company will refine it and, if the power is made available to supply the refineries and, if there will be a system of dams that generate electricity.

Nope, it took a power house of a man  with a giant administrative advisory and implementation staff- It was from the top the very top down, not from  the front line Rosie the Riveter up.

Sheep without a shepherd are soon meal for the wolves.

Right.  Leadership is always needed to set the direction and communicate the vision.  Then a good leader knows how to empower their people, giving them the tools and authority to do their job in the best way.  Then an effective leader, once they have properly empowered their people, gets out of the way to let them do (and also to make their own learning mistakes).  And they are their monitoring and giving help when needed, plus celebrating their people's successes with them.

Servant leaders, which Christ modeled the best of all, develop their people to then become effective leaders themselves, and repeat the cycle over and over.

And yes, our factories weren't bombed, but the high production numbers together with high quality, was a concerted effort.  Leadership knew they needed something more than the status quo of manufacturing, and in 1942 the Secretary of War's administration, appointed Deming, et. al. to bring things up to a higher standard via a training program for US war manufacturing, which eventually trained over 30,000 factory people in the methods responsible for increasing production and quality. 

Quoting wiki page: "During World War II, Deming was a member of the five-man Emergency Technical Committee. He worked with H.F. Dodge, A.G. Ashcroft, Leslie E. Simon, R.E. Wareham, and John Gaillard in the compilation of the American War Standards (American Standards Association Z1.1–3 published in 1942)^[18] and taught SPC techniques to workers engaged in wartime production. Statistical methods were widely applied during World War II, but faded a few years later" [due to Americans returning to pre-war methods after the war, and business leaders didn't start realizing the value of Deming's SPC methods until the late 1970s].  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming

[TheBlade]

On 8/5/2023 at 2:23 PM, Solus Christus said:

I find the hardest moment is getting another saint to realize “we are both right,” that we are seeing teo different sides of the coin, or as Rabbi said, “the many colors reflecting from diamond.”  

Maybe if we focused on what we do not what others are doing. there is no lack for  "God's police force".