Look to Henry Ford, not Barack Obama, to End Unemployment

Henry Ford wrote not for MBA students, but for front-line production workers who might not have even finished high school.  His books combined the fundamental principles of organizational and human behavior (specifically the need for a square deal in every transaction) with industrial efficiency methods that developed and are now known as the Toyota Production System.  Ford identified and practiced what we now know as, among other things, green and sustainable manufacturing, just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing, and porous organizational structures as later advocated by W. Edwards Deming and Tom Peters.

Ford Ideals (1922), which Ford wrote during or shortly after the postwar depression that followed the First World War, includes “‘No Help Wanted:’ An Untrue Sign,” and it applies to our country’s condition today (emphasis added):

The “No Help Wanted” sign is a limited statement addressed only to the job seeker, and to him it does not mean “No Help Wanted” at all; it means “We Have No Help To Give You.” … Suppose you are a man out of a job. You see a shop which says “No Help Wanted” and you know, of course, that the sign means that the shop needs help before it can give any. Have you an idea that will start another wheel turning? Have you any help to give that shop? Can you open any channel for the outflow of its product? Can you serve as an ignition point in its organization?

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