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Invented by Dr. Deming decades ago. Embraced by Toyota, Honda, etc. decades ago. See Deming's 14 points...

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Common people will always blame the system and people governing it for their own inability to function properly and do the right thing, invest work, make progress.

Give good people any system and they will thrive, figure things out, adapt it for the better and continue to evolve it. As a leader you only offer experience and patches where team fails to understand complexity in order to set things up.

Take a bunch of opportunists and let them have any system - it will fail. To those you can never be unfair or hard enough as a "boss" regardless of how much you exploit them, simply because sooner or later they will find a way to fully and thoroughly exploit the company until it is worth less than a parking lot. Products will lag in timeline and quality, all progress will depend on one person hidden from the superiors and eventually end up in a bin regardless of how much freedom and benefits you give them there will always be something/someone to blame if they eventually even bother to come up with an excuse

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psuedo psychology nonsense...

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Just to elaborate, these are real life experiences I had in companies I worked in or work for now. None of this is theoretical made up. ken a person is either a bot or really low IQ baby child aged 35.

I watched people do every single thing I described, and it is a repeating theme. I try to bring good people to the company and good thrust worthy people are really hard to find.

I watched from a side how giving workers more and more freedoms, flexible work hours, coffee breaks any time they wanted etc. ended up in serious changes in company policy because productivity went down so bad. Same workers after "serious talk" and implementation of very strict conditions lead to great productivity and profits instead of losses. They even stole lots of money because they felt like they could since freedoms and good secure pay was not enough. They stole as group and individually.

All this is general knowledge, there are bunch of biographies, real life documented stories, books about different companies and endless posts of experiences from all around the world and different systems.

Just go scan some Internet if you are really interested - I mean anyone young enough not having any experience or reference to what real world looks like reading this and trying to learn anything.

Another example you might like is whole country removing benefits for student workers and other benefits related to education after best students in whole country were so bad they could not be employed anywhere, we are talking top 0.01 percent. Changes were implemented on state level. Vast majority of students drank partied and cheated for grades as a default. One of such brilliant marvels could not write a single line of code literally in a 6 months after getting degree in computer sciences and being given opportunity to work in their own pace with good pay. "Dude" was coworker and we all wondered what is going on.

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Crazy nonsense. get a life dude...

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Well "dude" your arguments are so bellow level needed for conversation that I can only conclude you are a bot. Or CIA agent with family tree tied in a knot.

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What do you do for a living? Drink your mothers milk?

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Blameless culture stays at the core of building a sustainable and productive organization. Great overview Hemant, as always!

My experience was quite similar to yours, first month I broke Chrome production which almost caused missing our first monthly release. Thanks for sharing your story!

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