“DAILY”
DEVOTIONAL—Listening to the Spirit
THE DESOTO WAY [Su, 6-7-20]
Sometime before 1961, I
read a statement from the CEO of the DeSoto Division of Chrysler Automobiles.
He said, “If we have a new job to do, we give it to the laziest guy in the
plant, because he’ll find the quickest and easiest way to do it.”
As someone who had worked
in a factory, with time management people coming around to observe and try to
figure out how jobs could be done quicker, it sounded like a brilliant
strategy.
As I said, though, it was
before 1961, because that is the year DeSoto went out of business. Maybe their
manufacturing strategies were not so great after all. The laziest guy and the
CEO both lost their jobs.
Of course, it probably had
a lot more to do with marketing strategies, and changing public tastes than it
did with manufacturing processes, but still…
Perhaps the quickest and
easiest way is not the best way, if you want something that will endure.
JRMcF
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