ORIGINAL: short_start


In the brainstorming sessions in which I've participated, it seems there's nothing so attractive to manufacturing management as an idea that's been tried before and which failed. Some clunkers get recycled on a yearly basis. The guy who speaks up and mentions the prior sorry experience gets labeled as "Not a team player".

I retired from General Motors after 39 years. The last four or five years my boss said "It is OK if you don't want to come to the meetings as everyone gets upset when you tell them we tried it before and it didn't work". I quit going to the meetings and finally had time to get some work done.

would turn purple .
Bob