Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work

his musket parts onto a big conference table and invited offi-

cials to build a working musket right there, taking parts at ran-

dom from his piles. They did it easily.

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This feature made assembly in the fac-

tory much quicker and caused a great

leap in ease of field repairs that in turn

resulted in an enormous step up in quality throughout the

industry. No one would buy a musket not made to these toler-

ances. And, of course, these advances attracted makers of all

kinds of other things.

Henry Ford

As a child in the 1880s, Ford dreamed about manufactur-

ing watches. He just knew he could “build a good serviceable

watch for around thirty cents.” He calculated ...