Interesting.
Long, long ago- the quality movement that started in US… was developed in Japan.
And now, after a long time of talking about
Corporate Social Responsibility, OECD guidelines for multinationals, etc…
…a Japanese corporation is again questioning itself through simple, cheap, immediate actions.
Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain spent more than a million dollars decorating his office. But [JAL CEO] Nishimatsu knocked down his office walls so people can walk up and talk to him, and he works from a desk with an old-fashioned wooden in-and-out box.
(from CBS News correspondent Barry Petersen, posted on Facebook by a online/offline friend)
It is an interesting approach, akin to the one used in New York, by thumbing down on small-time law infringment, to give a signal and get used to “normality”, instead of “a slow decay”.
Some small, simple signal.
I know that somebody would say- but this has been done before in US.
Yes- but as in Deming’s case for quality: it was long ago, and then dumped in the dustbin of organizational development.
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