Sacred Cows Make Best Burgers

I have to continue with preparations for my next job. "Tell me again what you are up to," I finally say. "We want to make production a dominant force in getting good sales. Sales which will fit both the client's needs and the plant's capabilities like a glove. Exactly as we did in Burnside's case. But you see, for that I have to be here, in the plant. As long as we don't understand it in full, as long we don't develop the new procedures, we have to be intimately involved with all the details." "So what you want to do is to find those procedures. I see. This is interesting-but Bob, that's not like you. Since when have you been interested in such things?" 282 "Since you came and forced us to rethink the way we were doing stuff. Do you think somebody needs better proof than what's happened here in the past months? Here we were, run- ning things like we'd always done it-by the seat of our pants, slowly but surely sinking. And then we took the time and re- examined it from basic principles. And look at how many sacred cows we've had to slaughter! Worker efficiency-whoops, out the window ...»