There's an interesting parallel that occurs to me. 'Hustle culture' is just rebranded Marxist 'Labor Theory of Value'. The LTV places supremacy on work hours, as does Amazon/Hustle culture's 'just grind 100 hours a week bro'. Deming would have said rework hours don't count. In that sense Deming is the ideological opposite of Hustle/Amazon, which is another proxy for communism, which makes Toyota the ultimate anti-communist manufacturer.
•"The movement took its name from Aleksei Grigorievich Stakhanov, who reportedly, on August 31, 1935, mined 102 tons of coal in less than 6 hours—some 14 times his shift quota.[2] However, "competitive" Stakhanovite followers soon would "break" his record.[2] On February 1, 1936, it was reported that Nikita Izotov had mined 640 tons[citation needed] of coal in a single shift."
You could swap out the nouns and describe Amazon warehouse propaganda, a Linkedin post or Silicon Valley 'sigma grindset'.
•"So quotas were engineered in a way which we might recognise today: by the forced distribution or “stack ranking” of all employees according to their performance.
After all, how many high-performers can there be at any one time? The former CEO of General Electric, Jack Welch, suggested 20% (no more, no less) every year. "
Stack ranking. This is almost literally word-for-word what Deming said NOT to do. People claim the recent hustle overwork culture is the fault of capitalism but I suggest it is explicitly communist, socialist and in particular the living implementation of the Labor Theory of Value. Communism and Hustle culture alike place all blame on the worker and not the manager. And you get the same output: low quality, missed quotas, lost industry. Microsoft and Amazon are...communists??
It’s over for the US. At least with this batch of industry ‘leaders’.
There's an interesting parallel that occurs to me. 'Hustle culture' is just rebranded Marxist 'Labor Theory of Value'. The LTV places supremacy on work hours, as does Amazon/Hustle culture's 'just grind 100 hours a week bro'. Deming would have said rework hours don't count. In that sense Deming is the ideological opposite of Hustle/Amazon, which is another proxy for communism, which makes Toyota the ultimate anti-communist manufacturer.
Taking it even another step further look at this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakhanovite_movement
•"The movement took its name from Aleksei Grigorievich Stakhanov, who reportedly, on August 31, 1935, mined 102 tons of coal in less than 6 hours—some 14 times his shift quota.[2] However, "competitive" Stakhanovite followers soon would "break" his record.[2] On February 1, 1936, it was reported that Nikita Izotov had mined 640 tons[citation needed] of coal in a single shift."
You could swap out the nouns and describe Amazon warehouse propaganda, a Linkedin post or Silicon Valley 'sigma grindset'.
https://theconversation.com/how-a-soviet-miner-from-the-1930s-helped-create-todays-intense-corporate-workplace-culture-155814
•"So quotas were engineered in a way which we might recognise today: by the forced distribution or “stack ranking” of all employees according to their performance.
After all, how many high-performers can there be at any one time? The former CEO of General Electric, Jack Welch, suggested 20% (no more, no less) every year. "
Stack ranking. This is almost literally word-for-word what Deming said NOT to do. People claim the recent hustle overwork culture is the fault of capitalism but I suggest it is explicitly communist, socialist and in particular the living implementation of the Labor Theory of Value. Communism and Hustle culture alike place all blame on the worker and not the manager. And you get the same output: low quality, missed quotas, lost industry. Microsoft and Amazon are...communists??