ASQ "Living Strategy"

Jen Kirley

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#21
Thank you, JSWO5. Very kind.

I sent another, more specific message to the Living ASQ board. I will continue to provide more detailed input until someone tells me to shut up or I just decide it's of no use. Luckily I don't give up all that easily, but I will say I'm at the point of renewing membership and wondering what is the point?

Meanwhile, ASQ's Education division has reduced the ticket price of its Quality in Education seminars and its chair-elect says, "We hope that more K-12 educators will join the Division through the Forum-only membership and start to create a critical mass of quality advocates." http://www.asq.org/discussionBoards/thread.jspa?threadID=969&tstart=0&forumID=14

Hoping doesn't cut it. So I am working on ASQ in two directions, to include the Education Division, which appears to be taking the Blind Man's Bluff approach to development.
 
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#22
I guess the point is: we get what we agree to. If we allow the paid staff to usurp the dues paying members, we get the kind of organization we deserve. Thankfully, we have low cost mechanisms to reach out and communicate with the bulk of the 80,000+ members to lobby for votes to change the system.

Adolph Hitler and his mob did not take over Germany with guns and riots. They got themselves elected and worked to change the process from within. That's not to say our goals are similar to Hitler's, but it was a very effective tactic. It could take time - it took Hiter's guys years. The saving grace in ASQ is that a small, but determined group of members from a geographically dispersed demographic (the Cove?) could easily work their way into the elected offices of ASQ and then implement the coup d' etat with no fanfare and all the current highly paid staffers could be terminated and replaced within a matter of a few months. There may even be some mid-level staffers worth elevating to higher position.
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Curiously, I was one of the folks who lobbied long and hard to drop "control" and its police connotation from the name. It was bad enough back in the 80's and early 90's when bosses didn't take Quality folk seriously (they still don't, of course), but the rank and file employees hated us (rightly so in many cases) because we were the folks who "ratted them out" to the bosses and the bosses, unenlightened by Deming, punished the employee instead of fixing the process.

From time to time, we still see posts here in the Cove from folks who want plans for dealing with employees who "make nonconforming parts" versus plans for changing processes so employees won't make as many errors. We still get folks who worry more about "detection" than "prevention" of nonconforming parts.

Somehow, there are still thousands and thousands of organizations where "Red Beads" are something guys throw at Mardi Gras parades to get females to bare their bosoms.
(Don't they know it's the emerald green ones that do the trick?:bonk smile-a1.gif
 
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