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overemphasis on volume as opposed to quality combined with very poor
management decisions and ego greatly impacted this company. In my
eyes, the company producing Brand X focused on “getting things done,”
and its sister company focused on “getting things right.” at to me is the
primary reason that the sister company has survived and as of today the
Brand X company has faded.
In a plant that was already struggling from years of bad management and
assembling boats with signicant design-for-build defects, workers were
being asked to box up components highly susceptible to damage and ship
them for assembly in a plant not experienced or equipped for assembling
large boats. is was a huge distraction that just added ...