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To: rbg81

A good solution for that is to put women in process oriented jobs, and men in results oriented jobs. Most companies could optimize their performance by realizing that these two orientations can operate in parallel and both contribute to efficiency.

Too much focus on just results and you get Dilbert-style “pointy haired bosses”, who will ship empty boxes to customers just to make the shipping date. Too much focus on process and you have a superbly running machine that never produces anything to ship.


13 posted on 05/06/2012 6:18:26 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Process is important, but its not everything. One can design a brilliant process that, in theory, should work, but doesn’t. The trick is engineering a process that produces superb results and continually adapting it to optimize those results.

And, actually, I thought your Dilbert example was a bad one. In my mind, that is a boss that values process over results. You also have to balance short, mid, and long term results, as those are often at cross-purposes.


15 posted on 05/06/2012 6:44:10 PM PDT by rbg81
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