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Once in a while the manager should stand back from the work and pretend to be a little green ‘man/woman from Mars’.

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© 1994 Denise Barnett and Nan Kemp

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Barnett, D., Kemp, N. (1994). M. In: The A–Z of Applied Quality. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7100-5_13

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