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Old 02-10-2007, 03:44 PM   #22
Ronald Cherrycoke
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce View Post
C'mon tw, you can't "Deming" a war. It can't be "engineered", "5-Sed", "Quality controlled" or "Just in timed" either.
Despite all the planning, rules, procedures and rehearsals, where the rubber meets the road you're going to have humans making split second decisions under extreme pressure. Accidents will happen, wrong choices will be made, people will screw up sometimes.
You can try to minimize the occurrences and the damage they can produce from each occurrence, but they will happen as long as people are involved.
I thought that was what the "Whiz Kid" Robert MacNamara tried to do with the Vietnam war...and look how that turned out.
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