Marc’s Andon Board

Why?

As part of the  “How Do We Honour The Soup Throwers?” thing #CollectiveCourage

(Trying to put yourself under SOME discipline. Ha. Ha.) Because I need to help other people kick me in the ass so I my start-to-finish-in-a-timely-or-indeed-any-manner ratio improves.

What’s an Andon Board anyhow?

An Andon board is a visual display that shows the status of a process and alerts employees when an issue is detected. Andon boards are used in many industries, including manufacturing and customer service.

What I am hoping to do

Find some people who will kick me in the ass (happy to kick back if reciprocity is called for)

And that Andon Board Questionnaire in full

Multiple choice. Do as many times as you need. There are no wrong answers. Obvs.

Question 1: Marc is doing this because he wants to

1. Feed an insatiable craving for attention or relevance (mostly  the former)
2. Ask for sincere help in keeping some focus, some relevance
3. Renew old friendships make new ones
4. That insatiable craving for attention
5. Set some sort of example (‘good’?)
6. All of the Above

Question 2: Andon boards and other management techniques (Gannt charts etc etc) are

1. An inherently oppressive set of tools that can never contribute to dismantling the master’s house
2. A value-neutral set of logical and helpful tools that any fule should use, regardless of their goals, and without thought to anything nasty getting smuggled in through the airlock thanks to the Weyland-Yutani Corporation’s ambitious young executives taking some short cuts with the whole ESG thing.
3. The kind of quasi-technocratic militaristic Leninist shit that Marc secretly hankers for and reckons would sort out his pretzel psyche will simultaneously badging him as part of some mythical Killer Elite (Peckinpah)
4. All of the above

Question 3: This will end in

1. Days, or weeks, like all of Marc’s other self-improvement exhortations
2. Tears
3. Tears in weeks, as the waters close over our heads
4. Tears in weeks as the waters close over our heads and the fallout spreads
5. All of the above