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- Trump’s Odessa for Greenland deal!
- Confidential Letter to Trump on AUKUS
- Why Do People Serve a Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin?
- Putin and his Lieutenants compared to Mao, Napoleon, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Ataturk
- AUKUS, Nokia, Theranos & Dennis Richardson
- Albanese, Dutton, Trump & post-China/US War Dictatorship: Part 11
- Albanese and post-China/US War Dictatorship: Part 10
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- Albanese and post-China/US War Dictatorship: Part 7
- Albanese and post-China/US War Dictatorship: Part 6
- Albanese and post-China/US War Dictatorship: Part 5
- Albanese and post-China/US War Dictatorship: Part 4
- Albanese and post-China/US War Dictatorship: Part 3
- Albanese and post-China/US War Dictatorship: PART 2
- Albanese and post-China/US War Dictatorship
- Russian Censorship Comes to Australia via Jews!
- Anne Applebaum writes like Trump talks
- Putin’s Successor if he is killed soon!
- Brittany Higgins false rape earned her $2m
- Lies of Mike Burgess, the Director General of ASIO
- Evan Gershkovitch and Krasikov is Bad Policy
- Beazley, Richardson, Dibb are old men pushing sexy, ignorant group thinks.
- Jewish women Yvonne Engelman and Nina Bassat are Russia-type PR pawns?
- Bad News for Ukraine
- Group Think psychology of AUKUS and Option 2
- Putin says he follows Israeli Gaza example
- Henry Ergas praises Nazi “Will”
- What did we learn from the Tucker Carlson interview of Putin?
- Russian-Ukraine lessons on China
- Me and Colin Rubenstein – an Australian “traitor”?
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- Psychologies of Putin and USA
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- Putin in 2000
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AUKUS, Nokia, Theranos & Dennis Richardson
Dennis Richardson has been asked by Defence Minister Richard Marles to review “governance” at the Australian Submarine Agency tasked with building AUKUS submarines because a Public Service staff census has revealed very significant problems within the Agency with staff morale and internal communications.
But, is he up to the task?
Richardson has very wide experience in the government bureaucracy but none in economics or business. If he did he might recognise that the basic problem is probably that many staff members have morale problems because of concerns about the high-tech product – ie the production of AUKUS submarines in Adelaide! This would not be an unusual combination.
For example, such a connection was evident at Nokia about 20 years ago when the operating systems for mobile phones moved from device-centric to platform-based such as the new Apple smart-phones. Bad product led to bad management and people left, which in turn hindered recognition of the fundamental problem. Demand for Nokia phones plummeted! Another more recent example was Theranos where it slowly dawned on staff that the Edison high-tech blood-testing machine was fake. In both cases, many people – both inside and outside the organizations – refused to recognise that the basic cause of staff dissatisfaction was a flawed product.
Publicly, British journalist and historian Max Hasting reported in September that “a British defence insider” said to him: “I don’t think our UK submarine sector is remotely capable of delivering what the Australians want on time, on cost or to standard.” Former Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, has called building nuclear submarines in Adelaide – his home-town – a “fairy-tale”. In addition, all the hidden signs are that AUKUS is a dud product with knowledgeable people admitting this among themselves but reluctant to be the first to loudly proclaim that the “emperor has no clothes”.
What will Richardson conclude about AUKUS? Is he even capable of recognising the basic problem is a rotten product? Or, will he ignore problems like many did at Nokia and Theranos?
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