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NRA IMPOTENCE
STRUCTURED INCOMPETENCE AND GUN CONTROL
By: Ted Lang
After the crushing defeat of Japan in World War II, the US began rebuilding the vanquished nation. Through the efforts of Dr. W. Edwards Deming, Japanese industry was taught novel ways of statistical sampling and its application to quality control. Deming’s effort there, in India, and all over the world, marked the beginnings of the Total Quality Management buzz that eventually found its way into American business and government agencies.
Since the days of "scientific management," pioneered by Fredrick Winslow Taylor in the early 1900s, there has always been a focus on constantly improving the output of workers through more effective management. Deming’s achievements with the Japanese have, and continue to be, held in awe by industrialists and management scientists everywhere.
Of course, the bottom line in all this is more effective organization; said another way, a means to better organization. In spite of these varied management improvement thrusts, one thing remains crystal clear: a preponderance of organizations are so layered with ineffectual management-layered blubber so as to render them virtual useless as regards their ultimate mission. And nowhere is such organizational lethargy more evident than in the massive federal government bureaucracies, as well as in certain organizations purportedly created in the public interest.
Layers of management blubber works its destructive magic two ways: first, it empowers incompetent little people, protected from responsibility and punitive treatment for their arrogance and incompetence; and second, increased layers dilute the message to the frontline through misinterpretation and poor communication of organizational objectives. Add to this protective and communicatively vulnerable layering the interaction of personalities, with petty jealousies and non-productive competition, and the human element becomes yet another counterproductive factor. And I have previously expounded upon the "officialdom" represented by authoritarian "gatekeepers," who do not appreciate anyone making suggestions or recommending improvements in their areas of control.
Taken all together, management layering, especially in large government and/or volunteer public interest agencies, can easily and quickly morph into structured incompetence. I will, I’m afraid, have to continually refer to this concept in evaluating some of the wacky absurdities that are symptomatic to our drowning society. When structured incompetence is combined with the similar layered authority that is our federal government, the predominance of special interest and special player politics creates even more effectual absurdities.
The best example of this is the smashing success of unconstitutional gun control. The NRA is a special interest, and so is the Second Amendment-hating Violence Policy Center. An example of a "special player" is America’s mainstream establishment media, heavily influenced if not totally controlled by the New York Times and Hollywood. The latter two can also be viewed as "special players" in their own right. Special players serve as enablers, or disablers.
In a democracy, as our nation is continually mislabeled, the rule is by majority. But our republic allows for majority rule while protecting minority freedoms in the prohibitions against their suppression by government, specifically as is the case with the Second Amendment. The majority of grass roots individuals, four million of them, are with the NRA, a number much higher than the combined membership of the VPC, the Million Mommies and the Brady Bunch! Why then the success of gun control? The heavyweight tiebreaker is of course the left-liberal, gun-hating media.
Realizing that it takes lots of money to run for office in America, and realizing further that most is spent by campaigning politicians in media advertising, the media as a "special player" puts the unconstitutional gun control minorities in a position that is much more vocal and powerful than the greater number representing the people in the NRA. Considering also, that poll after poll shows that 70 percent of Americans don’t want anymore gun control, what we now have is a tyranny of the minority over the majority of citizens in America. Add to this fact that the NRA has become structurally incompetent itself as a large, layered organization, and gun owners are in deep trouble. And so is all of America.
Gun control organizations of minority grass roots membership are lean, effectively organized, and have massive media propaganda on their side. Additionally, extremely wealthy behind-the-scenes millionaire/billionaire socialists like Andrew McKelvey, can pump vast sums of money into their movement dwarfing the funding resources of membership heavy, grassroots organizations that are trying to protect their Bill of Rights freedoms which the minorities and their media are incessantly attacking.
Although the NRA does a lot of good, it is a classic example of an increasingly structurally incompetent organization mired in a tendency towards politically expedient damage control as opposed to all-out aggressive, proactive publicity and education campaign. The NRA’s organizational network is ready and willing, but structural incompetence as well as their gate keeping protectionism, is tying gun owners hands along with their shootin’ irons.
NRA IMPOTENCE
STRUCTURED INCOMPETENCE AND GUN CONTROL
By: Ted Lang
After the crushing defeat of Japan in World War II, the US began rebuilding the vanquished nation. Through the efforts of Dr. W. Edwards Deming, Japanese industry was taught novel ways of statistical sampling and its application to quality control. Deming’s effort there, in India, and all over the world, marked the beginnings of the Total Quality Management buzz that eventually found its way into American business and government agencies.
Since the days of "scientific management," pioneered by Fredrick Winslow Taylor in the early 1900s, there has always been a focus on constantly improving the output of workers through more effective management. Deming’s achievements with the Japanese have, and continue to be, held in awe by industrialists and management scientists everywhere.
Of course, the bottom line in all this is more effective organization; said another way, a means to better organization. In spite of these varied management improvement thrusts, one thing remains crystal clear: a preponderance of organizations are so layered with ineffectual management-layered blubber so as to render them virtual useless as regards their ultimate mission. And nowhere is such organizational lethargy more evident than in the massive federal government bureaucracies, as well as in certain organizations purportedly created in the public interest.
Layers of management blubber works its destructive magic two ways: first, it empowers incompetent little people, protected from responsibility and punitive treatment for their arrogance and incompetence; and second, increased layers dilute the message to the frontline through misinterpretation and poor communication of organizational objectives. Add to this protective and communicatively vulnerable layering the interaction of personalities, with petty jealousies and non-productive competition, and the human element becomes yet another counterproductive factor. And I have previously expounded upon the "officialdom" represented by authoritarian "gatekeepers," who do not appreciate anyone making suggestions or recommending improvements in their areas of control.
Taken all together, management layering, especially in large government and/or volunteer public interest agencies, can easily and quickly morph into structured incompetence. I will, I’m afraid, have to continually refer to this concept in evaluating some of the wacky absurdities that are symptomatic to our drowning society. When structured incompetence is combined with the similar layered authority that is our federal government, the predominance of special interest and special player politics creates even more effectual absurdities.
The best example of this is the smashing success of unconstitutional gun control. The NRA is a special interest, and so is the Second Amendment-hating Violence Policy Center. An example of a "special player" is America’s mainstream establishment media, heavily influenced if not totally controlled by the New York Times and Hollywood. The latter two can also be viewed as "special players" in their own right. Special players serve as enablers, or disablers.
In a democracy, as our nation is continually mislabeled, the rule is by majority. But our republic allows for majority rule while protecting minority freedoms in the prohibitions against their suppression by government, specifically as is the case with the Second Amendment. The majority of grass roots individuals, four million of them, are with the NRA, a number much higher than the combined membership of the VPC, the Million Mommies and the Brady Bunch! Why then the success of gun control? The heavyweight tiebreaker is of course the left-liberal, gun-hating media.
Realizing that it takes lots of money to run for office in America, and realizing further that most is spent by campaigning politicians in media advertising, the media as a "special player" puts the unconstitutional gun control minorities in a position that is much more vocal and powerful than the greater number representing the people in the NRA. Considering also, that poll after poll shows that 70 percent of Americans don’t want anymore gun control, what we now have is a tyranny of the minority over the majority of citizens in America. Add to this fact that the NRA has become structurally incompetent itself as a large, layered organization, and gun owners are in deep trouble. And so is all of America.
Gun control organizations of minority grass roots membership are lean, effectively organized, and have massive media propaganda on their side. Additionally, extremely wealthy behind-the-scenes millionaire/billionaire socialists like Andrew McKelvey, can pump vast sums of money into their movement dwarfing the funding resources of membership heavy, grassroots organizations that are trying to protect their Bill of Rights freedoms which the minorities and their media are incessantly attacking.
Although the NRA does a lot of good, it is a classic example of an increasingly structurally incompetent organization mired in a tendency towards politically expedient damage control as opposed to all-out aggressive, proactive publicity and education campaign. The NRA’s organizational network is ready and willing, but structural incompetence as well as their gate keeping protectionism, is tying gun owners hands along with their shootin’ irons.