The author James Fallows says, and I quote
The emphasis on the right way of doing things is re-surprising on each encounter with Japan. And the determination to do things in China, no matter what, commands respect, despite the obvious complications and problems it creates.Read the whole article here.
This is sourced from Greenspun's blog post.
One commenter Mark remarks on philg's post:
Phil,
My money’s on China.
I’ll take can-do over anal-retentive any day.
Regards,
Mark
I wonder what happens when the Chinese are fuelling their spacecraft or ICBM's.
ReplyDeleteThe same kind of can-do mentality helped usher in the rural collectivisation 人民公社, the home steel furnace movement 大炼钢铁 and the Great Cultural Revolution in the late 1950s and mid-1960s. All of which exacted a heavy toll on the hapless populace.
ReplyDeleteProfessor Sweet and Black also adopted the same approach in riding their super art-of-the-state bicycle in 1983. Most likely they used their automobiles in the same ways as their bicycles
ReplyDeleteI think when you grow older you start to appreciate the concept of equilibrium, not going to the extreme ends of things. Getting radical is exciting but can sometimes turns disastrous.
ReplyDeleteCan do spirit is good but not at the cost of quality. For quality control I dig anal retentive kind of standard operating procedures. No deviation, no gray area.
I believe in science. I believe that there must be some scientific ways to find out the pros and cons of doing or not doing something - such as whether to build the Three Gorges Dam. And there must be scientific methods to measure and control product quality.
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