Chapter 104. Don’t Cut Corners—You’ll Get Discovered
Maybe you make airplanes—are you going to cut corners? Maybe use substandard metal in the wings? Replace the engines with junkyard replacements? I don’t think so. You’d get discovered pretty quick. Hey, there is an increasing trend of taking managers to court if they have been responsible for injury to anyone using one of their products which has been found to be faulty (by way of design or manufacture or cost cutting). Quite right, too. If we were all made to be personally responsible for what we do in our working lives, maybe things would get a whole lot better. Rant over.
Maybe you don’t make airplanes. Maybe you don’t make anything. Maybe you just program computers. Nice and safe. Can’t ...
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