Blair House Debacle

What a complete waist of both the political process and the American people's time. I was under obviously the false impression (not that I really believed it) that Obama wanted to move the debate of fixing what's wrong with the American health care system forward. I all received from watching this congregation of ill-fitted egoistical narcissists was a bigger headache that I had before I turned on the television.

What we really got a true picture of is the way business of the past use to attempt to solve problems - get some "high-powered" employees in a room and work out a solution - usually the one put forth by the most powerful person in the room. Hmmmmmmmmmmm!! I wonder who that was????

In the mean time, the business world over the past 20 years has moved beyond this group-think type of profligation of no solution at all; or at the very worst the wrong solution and have developed many methodologies for solution resolution, among these are:

• Six Sigma
• Lean Thinking
• Theory of Constraints (TOC)
• ISO 9000 Quality Standards
• Total Quality Management (TQM)
• Toyota Production System (TPS) (maybe we should rethink this one?? lol)
  
• Just-In-Time (JIT)
• Benchmarking

Did anyone see even the hint of any of these methods being used. Hell, give me a white board and dry erase pencil and even I could have brought these idiots to a resolution on many of the very issues that debated.

What is so obviously clear when a particular methodology is used to find a solution is that 1) group think is destroyed by analysis and prioritization and 2) biases are easily exposed.