China vs America

[Seakony]

does this sound familiar?

A Chinese company and an American company decided to have a canoe race on
the Mississippi River. Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their
peak performance before the race.

On the big day, the Chinese won by a mile. The Americans, very discouraged
and depressed, decided to investigate the reason for the crushing defeat.

A management team made up of senior management was formed to investigate
and recommend appropriate action. Their conclusion was that the Chinese had
8 people rowing and 1 person steering, while the American team had 8
people steering and 1 person rowing.

So American management hired a consulting company and paid them a large
amount of money for a second opinion. They advised that too many people
were steering the boat, while not enough people were rowing.

To prevent another loss to the Chinese, the rowing team's management
structure was totally reorganized to 4 steering supervisors, 3 area
steering superintendents and 1 assistant superintendent steering manager.

They also implemented a new performance system that would give the 1 person
rowing the boat greater incentive to work harder.

It was called the "Rowing Team Quality First Program", with meetings,
dinners and free pens for the rower.

There was discussion of getting new paddles, canoes and other equipment,
extra vacation days for practices and bonuses.

The next year the Chinese won by two miles. Humiliated, the American
management laid off the rower for poor performance, halted development of a
new canoe, sold the paddles, and canceled all capital investments for new
equipment.

The money saved was distributed to the Senior Executives as bonuses and
the next year's racing team was outsourced to India.

[mofi]

Hahahaha hillarious!

[DavidB]

Thats the way it works at our hospital. We'd make alot more money if those darn paitents didn't needed all those nurses to take care of them.

[Just Lucky]

I believe China has become,perhaps,the most exploitave society in history.They are,in my opinion,certainly not worth emulating.Has anyone noticed that the President of China ,on his visit here,will not be having the usual state dinner?I think it does not bode well for the future of Sino-American relations.

[lulabell]

Yes. Dinner with Bill Gates instead.

[Rissask]

Oh my yes....it sounds VERY familiar. I work for an American agricultural equipment company (well, it is actually global, the parent company is Italian, but the two big manufacturing companies they bought out were American) and that style of management, top heavy and uncaring, too many meetings and not enough action, sounds way too familiar. Plus they are outsourcing more and more stuff to India.
But hey, money is the bottom line, and if the Indians can do a piece of line art in half an hour for $2 and the American company charges $25 a piece and takes two days- tell me, who YOU gonna call?

[MaripositaII]

Originally Posted by Rissask

Oh my yes....it sounds VERY familiar. I work for an American agricultural equipment company (well, it is actually global, the parent company is Italian, but the two big manufacturing companies they bought out were American) and that style of management, top heavy and uncaring, too many meetings and not enough action, sounds way too familiar. Plus they are outsourcing more and more stuff to India.
But hey, money is the bottom line, and if the Indians can do a piece of line art in half an hour for $2 and the American company charges $25 a piece and takes two days- tell me, who YOU gonna call?

INDIA Do I get a prize for giving the right answer?

[traci]

This sounds like the teaching profession! Let's make the teachers attend umpteen-jillian meetings to talk about what's wrong and what to do about it instead of spending time ACTUALLY teaching. It's why I won't teach anymore, and it's too bad. I LOVED the students and was a great Math teacher, but can't handle the Administrators that sit in their nice offices and tell those of us that ACTUALLY spend more than 3 min. a day w/students what we should be doing!

[birdman]

Welcome to micro managed America. It seems that the execs no longer get it, they are in charge of some very good people but will not let them do their jobs. The heads of these companies are paid huge bonuses for the work of their underlings so they want their stamp on every piece of work done. I think it's time to get rid of the dead weight at the top & let those that know what they are doing get it done.

[Rissask]

Originally Posted by MaripositaII

INDIA Do I get a prize for giving the right answer?

DING DING DING!
You get a brand new Juicemaster 3000! And some tandoori chicken.:p

[Just Lucky]

Originally Posted by mrsbosco

Yes. Dinner with Bill Gates instead.

Perhaps Bill can put even more spyware in the mandarin and cantonese versions of the next generations of his O.S.After all you can't allow Cisco,Yahoo and Google to be the only companies assisting the Chinese government in oppressisng their people

[Just Lucky]

Originally Posted by birdman

Welcome to micro managed America. It seems that the execs no longer get it, they are in charge of some very good people but will not let them do their jobs. The heads of these companies are paid huge bonuses for the work of their underlings so they want their stamp on every piece of work done. I think it's time to get rid of the dead weight at the top & let those that know what they are doing get it done.

Well said! Did you notice the retirement package the CEO of Exxon received?Four hundred million and he gets to keep using a corporate jet.Unfortunately he's just one example.

[JudyBluEyes]

Originally Posted by mrsbosco

Yes. Dinner with Bill Gates instead.

And a meeting with Boeing too.

[Just Lucky]

Boeing will ,no doubt, assist them in building up their Air Force.

[Rissask]

in 5000 or so years...assuming humans are even still around ....they will likely all look Chinese.