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>There is nothing wrong in making a mistake, but if you ever make the same mistake twice, you probably won’t be here the next year. Some companies will accrete
by tonyedgecombe 4y ago
>There is nothing wrong in making a mistake, but if you ever make the same mistake twice, you probably won’t be here the next year.
Some companies will accrete rules after every mistake until it is impossible to do anything.
>For example, when Kodak failed to acquire Xerox when it could have ...
I don't think it has ever made sense to buy Xerox, as an investment their record has been dismal.
>Kodak is currently in a precarious position, because it did not press the development of digital photography.
Except Kodak was a pioneer in digital photography. Their problem wasn't that they let the transition sail by. It was that they didn't recognise that they were a chemicals company rather than imaging.
- camjohnson26 4y agoYeah I don’t agree with never making the same mistake twice, especially for lower level employees. Deming in The New Economics points out that all processes in an organization have natural variation, so mistakes only have meaning if they go beyond that variation in their impact. So if your code is so fragile that it requires manual testing of every feature before deploying, it’s very likely that a junior employee will forget that testing step more than once, because the system has set them up to fail. Deming would suggest never blaming individuals, and instead measuring the process’s variation and working to reduce it, in this case by reducing code fragility or finding ways to automate or enforce the manual testing.