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亨利·福特:我的生活与工作·补录 16
亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导
The conception of democracy which names a leveling-down of ability makes for waste. No two things in nature are alike. We build our cars absolutely interchangeable. All parts are as nearly alike as chemical analysis, the finest machinery, and the finest workmanship can make them. No fitting of any kind is required, and it would certainly seem that two Fords standing side by side, looking exactly alike and made so exactly alike that any part could be taken out of one and put into the other, would be alike. But they are not. They will have different road habits. We have men who have driven hundreds, and in some cases thousands of Fords and they say that no two ever act precisely the same--that, if they should drive a new car for an hour or even less and then the car were mixed with a bunch of other new ones, also each driven for a single hour and under the same conditions, that although they could not recognize the car they had been driving merely by looking at it, they could do so by driving it.
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定位:Additional excerpt 16 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
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福特说,把民主理解成“把能力拉平”只会造成浪费。自然界没有两样东西完全相同。福特汽车做到零件完全可互换,按化学分析、精密机械和工艺做到几乎一样,按理两辆并排的车该一模一样,但实际不是:它们跑起来习惯不同。试车员开过成百上千辆福特,说没有两辆表现完全一样;即使把车混在一堆新车里,单看认不出,一开就能认出自己开过的那辆。这说明,即使标准化到极致,个体差异依然存在;强行抹平差异,既不可能,也浪费资源。
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福特在《我的生活与工作》中谈大批量生产与标准化,用汽车零件互换性说明自然差异不可消除。
今日一问
你在追求标准化时,是否忽略了那些无法抹平、也不该抹平的个体差异?
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