Creating health from the inside out - Cars and sufficiency

[Guest guest]

re: " , Ford actually formed a team of engineers to

> reverse-engineer some Japanese cars and " prove " they were no

better. The

> resulting report, apparently more than a foot thick, listed all the

ways in

> which the Japanese cars WERE, in fact, superior. Ford execs were

> dumb-founded and responded with a wonderful marketing slogan, " At

Ford,

> quality is Job One. "

 

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similar story at GM, same time period. For a week, I worked at one

of the GM plants. They were just concluding a study comparing two

cars, one GM and one Japanese, that had the " exact " drive trains

(models since forgotten..). GM, when measuring the ID of a Japanese

shaft part, thought that thier measuring equipment was broken,

because, they were showing " zero " deviation in the measurements.

They then went to their

own, being GM's parts, and found that their measuring equipment was

working just fine...it was that the Japanese shaft part really did

show no measurable difference amongst all the parts tested. GM did

note, however, that while all the Japanese parts were " within specs " ,

that they all were at the very minimum of the specification. And when

you think about it, sufficiency reigned: using only the minimum

amount of material to do the job, and ensuring a very tight fit.

brilliant, and I see it as applying to our bodies also: the principle

of sufficiency referenced earlier..

 

just catching up...

 

all the best,

 

Bob