Tearing down walls of pride.
What helps keep you humble? How to you tear down your walls of pride?
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Heartlander · 80-89, M
This brings to mind the big DOD. “Zero Defects”program of the mid 1960s that came to be after a series of costly DOD and military mistakes.
Zero Defects was supposedly the result of everyone, from private to general to GS17 taking more pride in their work, and the words PRIDE, ZeroDefects, ZD were linked together to motivate everyone to take pride in their work and end all the fuckups. Painted on practically every hangar door and any available wall space in however large the letters could fit: PRIDE.
I do well remember the day, someplace or other while taxing across the ramp for takeoff seeing the big 5 letters painted on a hangar door and whispering into the hot mic “P R I D E”, to which the flight engineer responded “yep, Pitch Right In and Dick Everything up”. He nailed it. It’s been my definition of pride ever since.
Zero Defects was supposedly the result of everyone, from private to general to GS17 taking more pride in their work, and the words PRIDE, ZeroDefects, ZD were linked together to motivate everyone to take pride in their work and end all the fuckups. Painted on practically every hangar door and any available wall space in however large the letters could fit: PRIDE.
I do well remember the day, someplace or other while taxing across the ramp for takeoff seeing the big 5 letters painted on a hangar door and whispering into the hot mic “P R I D E”, to which the flight engineer responded “yep, Pitch Right In and Dick Everything up”. He nailed it. It’s been my definition of pride ever since.
