Why America’s Largest Tool Company Couldn’t Make a Wrench in America

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/677480 [https://lemmy.zip/post/677480] > Archived version: https://archive.ph/RQev4 [https://archive.ph/RQev4] > Archived version: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/aUlm5 [https://ghostarchive.org/archive/aUlm5]

Because they’re not as good as the Milwaukee folks, who do?
The problem was they wanted to make them without any folks.
Yeah, that doesn’t work.
But they will keep trying.

Eventually the MBAs will rediscover Gall’s Law:

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.

If they could learn they wouldn’t be MBAs