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have been good because they answered the prob- 

 lem for wh suggested, and bad be- 

 cause they were good only for the things we saw 

 'Hi^; hut v. , enough to tee 

 the whole thing. 



re must be a plan for the work of the little 

 group of which you are foreman. This plan must 

 be part of a general plan for the factory and that 

 must be part of a general plan for the industry if 

 we arc to keep moving properly. 



re arc many men who have proposed new 

 plans for the conduct of industry. Since the War 



have especially emphasized some of those al- 

 ready proposed. The trouble with a plan is that 

 it must work or it is no good. That is why it is 

 better to move one step at a time in getting things 

 improved in an industrial operation. Some of 

 these plans may be good, but most of them mean 

 that we would have to change all of that particular 

 phase of industry at once. If we should try one 

 of them and it didn't work, the result would be 

 disastrous. It is much better to move along as we 

 are doing now, even though we are not as efficient 

 at we should be, even though we fight each other 

 more than is good for progress, even though we 

 do not understand each other as we should, than 

 it is to try some big experiment which will mean 

 a complete change in our industrial organization 

 and which, if it did not work, would smash the 

 organization to pieces. That is why all theoretic 

 plans for improvement should be experimented 



:i in a small way until they have shown how 



