Re: Vision of the three Rs: Regular, Reliable and Reusable

"Michael Turner" <leap@xxxxxxx> wrote:

(I was once told that IBM kept offering employees incentives
for improving the process for making Selectric typewriters, down to
the point where they were shaving 1 cent off the cost per unit. Given
the sales volume, it was actually worth an engineer's time to think
for a few weeks about cost savings that low.)

I wrote the award citations for IBM's technical achievement awards for
some years. Instead of a plaque and a handshake, they used formulas
that gave TA winners a defined fraction of what their ideas had made
(or saved) for IBM.

Having been involved in many corporate recognition events, I can say
confidently that nothing gives the recipients -- or their peers in the
audience -- quite the same warm, fuzzy feeling of being appreciated as
a six-figure check.



Monte Davis
http://montedavis.livejournal.com
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