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亨利·福特:我的生活与工作·补录 21
亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导
The farmer makes too complex an affair out of his daily work. I believe that the average farmer puts to a really useful purpose only about 5 per cent of the energy that he spends. If any one ever equipped a factory in the style, say, the average farm is fitted out, the place would be cluttered with men. The worst factory in Europe is hardly as bad as the average farm barn. Power is utilized to the least possible degree. Not only is everything done by hand, but seldom is a thought given to logical arrangement. A farmer doing his chores will walk up and down a rickety ladder a dozen times. He will carry water for years instead of putting in a few lengths of pipe. His whole idea, when there is extra work to do, is to hire extra men. He thinks of putting money into improvements as an expense. Farm products at their lowest prices are dearer than they ought to be. Farm profits at their highest are lower than they ought to be. It is waste motion--waste effort--that makes farm prices high and profits low.
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福特批评农民把日常劳作搞得太复杂,认为普通农民真正有效利用的能量只有约5%。如果工厂像农场那样布置,车间里会挤满人。欧洲最差的工厂也比普通农场谷仓强。农场几乎不用机械动力,什么都靠手,很少考虑合理布局:干杂活时反复爬摇摇晃晃的梯子,挑水多年却不装几截水管,一有额外活就想雇人,把改善投入当 expense。结果,农产品最低价仍偏贵,农场最高利润仍偏低。根源是浪费动作、浪费力气。
上下文
福特在《我的生活与工作》中对比工业与农业效率,批评传统农场管理方式,主张把工业方法用于农业。
今日一问
你日常工作中,有哪些重复动作或低效布局,其实可以用简单改进消除?
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