The Aim of Leadership

“The aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output and simultaneously to bring pride of workmanship to people. Put in a negative way, the aim of leadership is not to find and record failures of men, but to remove the causes of failure: to help people do a better job with less effort.” Out of the Crisis, W.Edwards Deming

Infrequent site-visits are designed to find, record and correct failures. They're reactive instead of proactive.

What better way to achieve the goals of Dr. Deming than to have an architect lead construction daily? There isn't one. Daily leadership does "eliminate the causes of failure", and does "help people do a better job with less effort".

In addition the work atmosphere is looser, more open and people actually have more fun because the onus to perform is placed directly on the architect. He has no excuses, like "the dog ate my homework", or "the builder just doesn't get it."
Tony Ristola
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