[Facnet-l] Fwd: UBAC Meeting Agenda - Thursday January 5, 2012

[steven filling]

A comment from a colleague on "lean"….


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"Evil is not people with mustaches who look like they're doing bad things.  Evil is done by people in suits sitting in boardrooms making horrible decision.  They do it because it's worth it."
Frank Ruddy

Steven Filling
ASCSU Senator
sfilling at csustan.edu
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Begin forwarded message:

> From a treatment on lean practices:
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> “There is an old adage that goes:  One manager talks to his workers. Two managers talk to each other. Three managers form a club. An oversupply of managers can sometimes lead to a mistaken conception that “we”, the officers and staff, are the company and that the rest, the “you” who work outside the office walls, comprise a necessary inconvenience. Another sort of self-deception falls within the realm of the owner-manager in many small businesses. New, inexperienced CEO’s have an almost irresistible urge to create positions for high-level officers – vice presidents and/or divisional managers, for example – long before company growth might require such officers
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> Good judgment about administrative overloading doesn’t seem to prevail among many small businesses.. Calling the tendency toward top-heaviness predictable in organizational behavior may be an exaggeration. Some companies manage to resist it. But the practice is surely one of the most common and costly managerial blunders in the American business community.”

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