Regarding "quality standards adhered to by the organization." ... organization including the share holders who weigh a lot of influence regardless of the employees's vision .... we see evidence in todays world were the market demand is diminishing quality in a lot of goods we buy ... quality has been sacrificed for profits.

Newtonian mechanics can be applied to Apple (than again, the shareholders) ... it happened with IBM's PC's. Once they were high quality products ... eventually (as the market demand put pressure on production) they became more of a "pain in the butt" due to defincencies in quality ... eventually it was easier for IBM to sell that division off to Lenovo than try to regroup and bring the quality back to it's previous level and meet the market demand. Another good example is Volvo .... they certainly aren't of the same quality as they used to be.

biLL