Operating Principle1 book · 1 highlight
Fifty-Foot Rope for Thirty-Foot Drowning
Books Teaching This Pattern
Evidence
Someone Has to Make It Happen; The Inside Story of Tex Thornton, the Man Who Built Litton Industries
Lay Jr. Beirne · 1 highlights
“He preached and practiced the theory that if you're drown- ing thirty feet from shore, a fifty-foot rope is better than a twenty-five-foot rope. If he needed three men, he'd ask for five. If a rush job could be finished on Wednesday instead of Thursday by slaving all night, you didn't go to bed.”
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