Reply #214: Not a problem, insight is all I have left after twenty years LOL. :-) [View All]

[susanna]

I knew some amazingly visionary engineers and designers over the years, and I know they felt the frustrations I did (I was a quality analyst, just starting to see the fruits of years of labor when I left). I am slightly biased, too, because my husband is an engineer for a supplier that makes advanced interfaces for navigation, radios, etc., and he never ceases to amaze me with all the ideas he has to make his products better. He is very lucky because his boss (even with an MBA) lets him "go for it." Mostly because many of the things he's worked on bring accolades (and business) to the company.

Your insight about GM is spot on; I was there several of my twenty years in the biz and could never understand the resistance to simple common sense. Usually it just ended up a p!ssing contest done for no other reason than to pull rank and outmaneuver internal competitors.

And I would gladly second your "I told you so!" It is very, very appropriate. Thanks for the dialogue! :hi:

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