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Subject: Saving The U.S. Navy From Itself
SYSOP    4/14/2014 6:00:13 AM
 
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ka5s    A modern disease   4/14/2014 7:00:04 AM
---  destroying morale and team spirit in the lower officer and enlisted ranks. The senior commanders impose these morale-busting measures because of political pressure from above and the politicians have no sympathy for commanders who can’t order their unhappy subordinates to just carry on. --
 
It's not just the Services. My experience in some fairly high tech electronics firms has been management trying to raise profits by being more controlled, controlling and "productive" -- longer hours for less pay -- thereby achieving the opposite of its intention.  Missile officer cheating? Schools whose students must pass NCLB exams or teachers will be fired quickly lose sight of education.  
 
Si[x] sigma tyrannis.  Our country is being poisoned by the homeopathic cures greed, turpitude, certitude and politics serve up.
 
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WarNerd       4/15/2014 3:14:24 AM
A company I worked for was did a very large survey of employee attitudes, and the biggest problem that showed up was in a section called "Management Says / Managment Does" where they were rated on a 1 to 5 scale on many current issues.  Management got a 4+ on "Management Says" and less than a 2 on "Management Does".  So they called in all the Supervisors and lectured them on how they weren't communicating effectively with the employees under them.  The Supervisors then came back to us to ask what we didn't understand.  We quickly got through to them that we considered them [the Supervisors] as part of us, and Management was the people above them.
 
Needless to say the whole report got suppressed.  They even tried to collect all the copies that had been distributed.
 
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TheSarge       4/15/2014 9:32:40 PM
I'm pretty sure it is the TOXIC administration, starting with the commander in chief, working all the way down into the ranks of the military that are hell bent on destroying it as an effective institution. What normal, reasonable, intelligent and rational person would stay in....or could stay in, since being a normal, reasonable, intelligent and rational person would only put a target on their back if they stayed in for a career? 
 
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stratsight1       4/16/2014 7:23:20 AM
There are some good points in here, well hidden by the poor writing.
 
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ker       4/17/2014 4:40:01 PM
Book recomendation: The Second Machine Age. Brynjolfsson and McAffe write about steam powered factorys did not become more efficent when electric power was installed. "Only after thirty years—long enough for original managers to retire and be replaced by a new generation— did factory layouts change. ... based on a simple and powerful new principle: the natural workflow of materials. ... significant organizational innovation is required to capture the full benefit of ... technologies." 102 When ships moved from sails to steam and then to oil there was time to retire out the leaders produced by the old way who can't help using the new tec as a decorative overlay on the old organization. Now the seperation between speed of tecnical change and organizational changes is growing fast. Also, rate at which new problems develope can increase. Adapting faster than Russian navy and Chines navy is much easyer than being ready when a new threat organization anounces it's existance. Hypotheticly, if a Japanes religious cult atacks passenger ship rather than subway trains the the U.S. Navy will be forced to explain why it wasn't ready.
 
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