IRREDUCIBLE MINIMUM

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1. when an organization or its posts operate only on an irreducible minimum, production goes bad and delivery crashes. Take a cook who has his post at an irreducible minimum. Food is appearing on the table. If he reduced just one bit more the food would no longer be edible at all. He neglects purchasing, menus and preparation. That these occur is invisible to the diners. That food appears on the table is visible to the diners. If the co operates at any less than he is, no edible food would be visible-hence, irreducible minimum. The food served will be bad. But it will be visible. Invisible -to-the -diners actions aren't being done. To improve the food, get the less visible actionq done. Get the sequence of actions all done. (HCO PL 14 Dec 70)

2. the principle of the irreducible minimum of a post. A post tends to reduce to only its visible points. In other words, all of the hidden or not too visible actions or which is to say, the preparatory actions that make a good product tend to drop away from a post and tend to drop away from an org. You will wind up with the irreducible minimum and that is merely the visible. (FEBC 1, 7011C17 SO)