A Quote by Erich Fromm

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

Erich Fromm

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Environmental Equality Commodities Just Man Mass Mass Production Modern Process Production Requires Social Standardization

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Erich Fromm
American - Psychologist
March 23, 1900 - March 18, 1980

Five coordinating mechanisms seem to explain the fundamental ways in which organizations coordinate their work: mutual adjustment, direct supervision, standardization of work processes, standardization of work outputs, and standardization of worker skills.

Henry Mintzberg

The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons of mass destruction. You combine those things with standardization, centralization, concentration, and synchronization, and you wind up with a style of organization we call bureaucracy.

Alvin Toffler

Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.

Ida Tarbell

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

Arthur Erickson

EU expansion is, unfortunately, continuing without a constitution, as a gradual process of standardization - and that's far more dangerous. It is very difficult to slow down this process, which is being pushed forward without significant public participation.

Vaclav Klaus

When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization.

Marc Lamont Hill

There are various non-statistical tools that have been typically developed by lean companies, notably by Toyota for minimizing variability in production, such as standardization, introduction of takt time, synchronization, shortening the total production lead time which I am fond of referring to as non statistical tools.

Masaaki Imai

The world needs more standardization, less innovation.

Steve Eisman

Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior.

Douglas McGregor

Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method.

Reginald Fessenden

I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified.

Chuck Palahniuk

Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.

Frederick E. Crane

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

Andy Hargreaves

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.

Henry Ford

Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and what not!