[The Cajun]

Want to read something that will get your blood pressure up about 50 points, read this link to another FR thread.
Link to FR thread
Read what the "captain" of the Deepwater Horizon had time to do when all hell was breaking loose and that he'd probably already loss his rig floor crew. The WSJ article attached with the thread is pretty good also.

[Bigun]

I cannot tell you how many of those TQM, or some other three letter acronym, management by committee type meetings I have been asked to leave in my lifetime but it is a fair number. That crap never has and never will work in the real world where decisions have to be made RIGHT NOW!