Posted on 08/03/2011 3:11:33 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
While presidential candidates furiously work to charm Iowa's Republican electorate, a visit with Texas businessman Mike George has become a vital stop on the road to the 2012 nomination.
More than 20 years ago, George created Lean Six Sigma, a business methodology that the U.S. military and major businesses have employed to cut waste.
...."It is the largest grassroots organization in Iowa -- and it's not me, it's the message," George said.
In the past two months, several Republican candidates have met with George and enthusiastically adopted his group's pledge. There are indications that Gov. Rick Perry may also support it if he runs.
The Strong America Now pledge is one of many that various groups are asking presidential candidates to sign to certify their conservative orthodoxy.
....It has also attracted criticism. In June, liberal-leaning MSNBC pundit Lawrence O'Donnell criticized the pledges that GOP candidates were signing and singled out Strong America Now's oath as "the most absurd pledge ever placed before a presidential candidate."
"Let's just take a moment and imagine if Democratic candidates for president were signing pledges to lobbying groups about how they would conduct themselves and limit themselves ... constitutionally," O'Donnell said. "Republicans would correctly attack those Democrats as having signed away the constitutional powers of the presidency."
...Texas pilot program
This year, state Rep. Raul Torres, R-Corpus Christi, persuaded lawmakers to approve a pilot program incorporating Lean Six Sigma practices in the Texas Workforce Commission, making Texas the first state to codify such language into law,..
...Perry backs the program, spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said. "The governor supports the bill and any efforts agencies will make to cut wasteful spending," she said. Given Perry's support of the bill, George said he believes that Perry would sign the Strong America Now pledge if he runs for president.
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My view of the six sigma constraints is that it limits ingenuity and tends to pigeion hole processes and manpower to a one size fits all model. Add to it, the manpower alone necessary to administer it. I thought this is what “managers” were for.
Waste in government is certainly a big part of the problem. Of course, DEMOCRATS in particular don’t want anything that reigns in their spending or curtails the good thing they got going for themselves “career” wise.
Sensible bump for this.
I think the "managers" are the inefficiency!
True words! And on a similar note:
Talking heads discuss: Gov. Perry takes on college education
So we need to hire a whole new staff of people to manage the managers? NOT!
My answer is a simple thing called a pink slip to induce a career change where the person is not over their head managing people who have more ability than said manager to get the job done, but can't because the manager won't let them.
I subscribe to the KISS principle (Keep It Simple Stupid)
Where was that said?
ROTFLMAO! Cut waste, eh? I guess the Pentagon didn't read the manual.
You hit the problem with Six Sigma perfectly on the head. I’ve worked for several companies that adopted six sigma and in all cases it stifled creativity and severely restricted employees. SS may work well for a super corporation that’s got one major product, but if you’re a smaller company with multiple programs, SS will kill you. As we used to say, ‘it was process for process sake’.
I don’t want creative government.
I want limited government.
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