The reckoning
by David Halberstam · first published 1986
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Compares and contrasts two companies, Ford and Nissan, from the founders and owners right down to the men on the assembly line.
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on “What happened to Japan's electronic giants?” ↗One of the books linked within is interesting https://www.amazon.com/Reckoning-David-Halberstam-ebook/dp/B... I read it sone years ago, and its very very interesting.
on “The Heart of W. Edwards Deming” ↗According to The Reckoning by David Halberstam, it was sort of worse than that--may still be. Executives' cars were put into the service bay as soon as they drove into work, and readjusted as needed. Daily. A more non-dogfood…
on “Microsoft.com - Careers: Linux/Open Office” ↗I am quite sure that it is not facetious. A very interesting bit of history of work ethic is discussed in David Halberstam's book The Reckoning in which when the auto industry began to take hold in Japan, the workers there could not understand how hard the Americans worked--three shifts? Working in the middle of the night? Now, it might seem…
on “Ask HN: A day in the life of a programmer?” ↗…ideals. Jidoka is evidently not a reality at Toyota, and they aren't much more enlightened than other orgs when it comes to pointing out problems, despite their A3 reports and multicoloured boards. The Reckoning, by David Halberstam, makes it clear that "Toyota-like" practices aren't unique to Toyota amongst Japanese auto manufacturers. It also makes clear that these practices primarily exist to keep workers…
on “Normalization of Deviance (2015)” ↗