
Programmed to Fail - 6. Innovation
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The Importance of Employee Incentives in Aircraft Systems Development
While US contractors were subjected to myriad management controls, their European counterparts remained largely unrestricted. Perry found that the French government requirements for the vertical lift aircraft totaled only 15 pages. Early austere testing and incremental changes neither led to inferior performance nor longer development times.
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