I think the latter part of this quote is disappointing: American workers expect things to go wrong and then they fix it,” said Freddie Guinness, 25, who moved t

I think the latter part of this quote is disappointing: American workers expect things to go wrong and then they fix it,” said Freddie Guinness, 25, who moved to Mobile from Ireland to manage the new facility. “We want it to go right the first time.” How much does cautiousness result in increased productivity versus having the ability to have reactive responses to things going wrong? I've found this behaviour in other orgs, and often it was used an excuse not to train people to have the capability to remediate, but only to do what they're trained to do. Also, as far as the age goes -- that's not that unusual for a line manager in manufacturing. Assuming they started working at ~22, 3 years in one plant can definitely make you a line manager.