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.

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.