Rickover wrote voluminously, including on management. “Get middle managers from the shop floor.”
Rickover on ‘Responsibility, it is an unique concept …’ hung in my briefing room.
In my day, NNPS passed only the finest (as a filter). A Goose Creek NPS instructior likened it now to a mud-pump. If a mud-man gets near the suction then he will be qualified, a burden to the fleet. Otherwise we are discriminating racists.
There were no 13%-er operators on my ship and none that I recall on the ships that I tested.
Responsibility, it is an unique concept. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible.
The “it is an unique concept” is essential. Rickover was a pedant at grammar too.
In defense of grrrls. During my career three women from my facility attempted our Test Engineering prep school at Electric Boat, Groton. Two passed. The third had the “highest scores ever” coming into the final exam. She was too sick with anxiety to sit the exam (100 essay questions graded on key words and tricky phrases, show all calculation work). I ruined an expensive dress shirt with sweat rings down to my skivvies.
Dropped out of college, enlisted, refused brown water Navy for being too smart. ASVAB ‘66 GCT=74 equivalent to IQ=160 Triple None Society.
EAOS to IBEW apprenticeship for job security. Journeyman-Leadingman for only electrician with nuclear instrument and controls experience. Seconded to Test Engineering about 1981, qualified in a year and retired with BRAC3 1995.
I do not believe that Admiral Rickover was a mere asshole, he just would not tolerate fools. We need many Rickovers now. Read Rickover on management.
Rickover wrote voluminously, including on management. “Get middle managers from the shop floor.”
Rickover on ‘Responsibility, it is an unique concept …’ hung in my briefing room.
In my day, NNPS passed only the finest (as a filter). A Goose Creek NPS instructior likened it now to a mud-pump. If a mud-man gets near the suction then he will be qualified, a burden to the fleet. Otherwise we are discriminating racists.
There were no 13%-er operators on my ship and none that I recall on the ships that I tested.
Responsibility, it is an unique concept. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible.
The “it is an unique concept” is essential. Rickover was a pedant at grammar too.
In defense of grrrls. During my career three women from my facility attempted our Test Engineering prep school at Electric Boat, Groton. Two passed. The third had the “highest scores ever” coming into the final exam. She was too sick with anxiety to sit the exam (100 essay questions graded on key words and tricky phrases, show all calculation work). I ruined an expensive dress shirt with sweat rings down to my skivvies.
Dropped out of college, enlisted, refused brown water Navy for being too smart. ASVAB ‘66 GCT=74 equivalent to IQ=160 Triple None Society.
EAOS to IBEW apprenticeship for job security. Journeyman-Leadingman for only electrician with nuclear instrument and controls experience. Seconded to Test Engineering about 1981, qualified in a year and retired with BRAC3 1995.