at my new job. The cult of lean manufacturing, the Toyota denomination. They’ve given each of us a copy of “The Toyota Way”. We are required to read them (currently a chapter per week) and then we’ll discuss said chapter at a weekly meeting. This is the third company I’ve worked for trying this lean manufacturing. It failed at the other 2. I’m not hopeful it’ll work here either. It seems to always come down to the same issue: unreliable supply chain. IMO, with the global situation, if you can’t make everything you need in-house, you’re setting yourself up for failure trying to implement this.
But that aside, I object on principle this idea of forcing people to drink the corporate Kool-Aid (especially since it was actually Flavor-Aid!). Pushing the cult mentality on workers is a good way to get stuck with only mindless parrots. Cause frankly, this is a deal-breaker for me.
I’m good at my job. I’m happy to offer suggestions that might be helpful. But I draw the line when it comes to this corporate indoctrination crap.
Kind of takes the fun out.