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Crop scientist, ex-farmworker, industrial safety pro. She/her.

Fayetteville, NC
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    1. Dr Sarah Taber‏ @SarahTaber_bww 15 Mar 2020

      Dr Sarah Taber Retweeted Stefan Schubert

      I'm assuming this is an innocent question that you're asking bc so many other folks are. But there's no special cultural sauce that made Korea do this. They have a competent public health service & decided to roll out high-volume testing ASAP. That's literally it. Competence.https://twitter.com/StefanFSchubert/status/1239308154980184065 …

      Dr Sarah Taber added,

      Stefan Schubert @StefanFSchubert
      Replying to @SarahTaber_bww
      Incredibly impressive. Do you think Western countries could pull this off? If not, why haven't they? Cries out for an explanation.
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      Dr Sarah Taber‏ @SarahTaber_bww 15 Mar 2020

      It's really common for Americans to say "well they're Confucian" and "we can't do that here" anytime they're confronted or people in Asia exhibiting ... basic human competence. It's common, & it's a bullshit excuse that Americans use to avoid accountability. Period.

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        2. Dr Sarah Taber‏ @SarahTaber_bww 15 Mar 2020

          I've worked with food facilities trying to adopt Lean practices, which Toyota came up with in Japan to run their factories super-efficiently. (Lean is why Toyota's cars are high-quality AND cheap.)

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        3. Dr Sarah Taber‏ @SarahTaber_bww 15 Mar 2020

          Americans LOVE to make excuses about how Lean must just work better for Japanese companies "because their culture is just ~like that.~" But actually, Lean is pretty counter-cultural for Japan too. Toyota had to work hard at it for DECADES to make it work.

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        4. Dr Sarah Taber‏ @SarahTaber_bww 15 Mar 2020

          They've also been really successful at making Lean work in their American factories. Toyota took over a GM plant that was legendary for horrible quality & labor problems. They started running it with Lean, & those problems went away. With the same ~troublesome~ union staff.

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        5. Dr Sarah Taber‏ @SarahTaber_bww 15 Mar 2020

          That plant was called NUMMI, it's the Fremont CA plant that Tesla later bought. It's a really great example of how Lean works GREAT with American workers in the United States, actually. As long as management actually DOES ITS JOB instead of making excuses.

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        6. Dr Sarah Taber‏ @SarahTaber_bww 15 Mar 2020

          I hear "well that's just [insert Asian country]'s culture" excuse all the time in my work. And it's always bullshit. It's just a lazy excuse that lazy people trot out to cover their asses. If it's an excuse you've heard a lot? Congrats, you know a lot of lazy people. Alas.

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        7. Dr Sarah Taber‏ @SarahTaber_bww 15 Mar 2020

          The reason so many American businesses fail at Lean so often isn't because "Western culture" "makes it impossible." It's because enough of us accept racist ass-covering excuses instead of self-critique & results. That's it.

          4 replies 31 retweets 270 likes
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        8. Dr Sarah Taber‏ @SarahTaber_bww 15 Mar 2020

          Which is wild because last I heard, self-critique was supposed to be one of the biggest strengths of ~western culture.~ You know, critical Greek philosophers & satire & the protestant tradition & all that. It's supposed to be our specialty.

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        9. Dr Sarah Taber‏ @SarahTaber_bww 15 Mar 2020

          I mean it's completely routine for Americans to just say things like "What is it about THEIR ASIAN CULTURE that made X possible" and the secret is literally just competent democracy & transparent, non-corrupt government. Which is, again, SUPPOSED to be the west's whole thing.

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        10. Dr Sarah Taber‏ @SarahTaber_bww 15 Mar 2020

          I really wish they'd just say "I can't do X bc I'm an incompetent fuckup" instead of blaming it on "US culture." At least that'd be honest. We have perfectly competent people, & Americans keep advocating for competent policy. We know how to do it. The problem's not "cultural."

          2 replies 26 retweets 223 likes
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        11. Dr Sarah Taber‏ @SarahTaber_bww 15 Mar 2020

          And every time we make a "culture" excuse for willful, malevolent errors like the ones that got us into COVID unprepared- Trump firing our pandemic team in 2018 & refusing to allow tests into the country bc he's afraid data will hurt his popularity- we're just enabling them.

          3 replies 53 retweets 375 likes
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        12. Dr Sarah Taber‏ @SarahTaber_bww 15 Mar 2020

          Sorry for the long thread. But the "we can't possibly take cues from ASIA" excuses have been following me my whole professional life & I'm so fucking sick of it. Don't let anybody use that line on you. It's a giant red flag that someone's full of shit.

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