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The Brompton: Engineering for Change
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“In Japan, the go/no-go system has been extended to a whole system of practices. Anything which physically prevents a mistake from being made, or automatically creates an alert that something has gone wrong, is a poka yoke, invariably pronounced 'pokey-yokey' by British engineers. (Poka in Japanese is a mistake, and yoke is to avoid something - it is the equivalent of 'fool-proofing', but in a language that's a little more polite about calling people fools.)”
― The Brompton: Engineering for Change
― The Brompton: Engineering for Change
“In many ways, a job in management is defined by the things that you have to trust others to look after. If you know everything that's going on, you're not managing anything - it's you that's doing the work.”
― The Brompton: Engineering for Change
― The Brompton: Engineering for Change
“I ended up concluding that a lot of what bankers get paid for is for facing up to things that normal people find embarrassing and awkward to talk about.”
― The Brompton: Engineering for Change
― The Brompton: Engineering for Change
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