Kelly Johnson, the famous aeronautical engineer was a revolutionary thinker. What's even more revolutionary but often overlooked are his management principals. Maybe we should insist on making his 14 rules a part of any reform that's pushed through the Defense Dept.
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Http Www.lockheedmartin.c..
Words to live by. Good stuff. Too bad neither Lockheed nor the government pay any attention to them anymore.
ReplyDeleteThe DOD seems to be particularly bad at #10. Requirements creep.
so true.
ReplyDeletei've been looking at all the programs that breached and the same thing is common in all of them....requirements creep.
amazing. what's crazier still is that the Pentagon knows its an issue...yet they still do it.