December 8, 2003

Navy Meeting Quota

So I am at the house of a friend right now. He is on the phone complaining to his mother of the lack of efficiency in the navy. He is currently going to a force protection school which costs thousands of dollars per person. The Marines that are attending the school are admitting that the school is better than what they were offered during training. My friend stands a watch that is unarmed and will never be using the knowledge from this course to benefit the navy in any way. For my friend to use a weapon it will require that he abandons his post as the single supervisor of a nuclear reactor - a highly unlikely scenario. With his completion of this school the boat will be closer to meeting quota though.

In addition he just spoke of the $587,000 pump that was ordered incorrectly. When you break the price down by horsepower it is under $60,000 per horsepower - just barely though.

Prior to me leaving the navy our drug counciler told me that about 10% of the crew got kicked out of the navy for using drugs in the prior year. As history repeats itself we yet again find that the navy finds a new way of meeting quota.

Good businesses have feedback loops vice quotas.

Posted at December 8, 2003 8:03 PM
Comments
Post a comment












Search


Archives
August 2016
September 2009
April 2009
November 2008
June 2008
May 2008
March 2008
February 2008
January 2008
December 2007
November 2007
October 2007
September 2007
August 2007
July 2007
June 2007
May 2007
April 2007
March 2007
February 2007
January 2007
December 2006
November 2006
October 2006
September 2006
August 2006
July 2006
June 2006
May 2006
April 2006
March 2006
February 2006
January 2006
December 2005
November 2005
October 2005
September 2005
August 2005
July 2005
June 2005
May 2005
April 2005
March 2005
February 2005
January 2005
December 2004
November 2004
October 2004
September 2004
August 2004
July 2004
June 2004
May 2004
April 2004
March 2004
February 2004
January 2004
December 2003
November 2003
October 2003
Recent Entries
What Can You Change?
Radiohead's Harry Patch (In Memory of ) Lyrics
Army Men: Soldiers of Misfortune Sabotage the Water Tower
Black & White Card Dealer
Fishing With Cookies!!!
Big Rapper at a Jewelry Shop
Which Bowling Ball Are You?
Materialism is Hot
The New York Times Further Undermines My Trust in the Media
The Jury
Categories
Aaron (269)
art (1)
brain (17)
business (43)
communication (2)
economics (28)
Food & Drugs (83)
friends (6)
funny (11)
humanity (12)
Internet (60)
Literature (15)
Marketing (115)
Mikey (3)
Military (30)
movies (3)
Music (12)
my logos (7)
Peanut Butter (5)
poems (102)
Politics (206)
poor form (10)
video games (1)
Movies Worth Watching
The Corporation
Cosmos
Manufacturing Consent
McDonalds Movie
Meeting People is Easy
The Money Masters
Tom Delay Movie
Wal Mart Movie

Friends
Brad Talmir
Gift Cardster
HIV Blog
John Scott
JOHO
Lawrence Lessig
Steven Berlin Johnson
Seth Godin's Blog
Smart Mobs
Talking Points Memo
The Memory Hole
This Modern World
Webkinz World
Werty

Help Fight Wars
Support Our Troops

Syndicate this site (XML) © 2003 - 2013
Creative Commons License
This weblog is licensed under a Creative Commons License.