Sentence examples for line mentality from inspiring English sources

This is a potentially fundamental challenge to the 20th Century production line mentality that ends in bulging landfill when consumer goods run out of useful (or fashionable) life.

So, even at a time when the model of the large company was not broken, as it is today, and wasn't so dominated by the bottom line mentality that exists today, it was hard.

The committee took from the factory the orderly rows, 40 minute schedule with breaks, identical outcomes and an assembly line mentality with no need for creativity or "outside the box" thinking.

(transcribed by Ryan Gaffney).

"In the fleet world, there's a bottom-line mentality," Russell says.

In this sense crowdsourcing is the antithesis of Fordism, the assembly-line mentality that dominated the industrial age.

Ms. Brown said that navigating the bottom-line mentality at Hearst Magazines has been a learning experience.

Its low-budget, no-frills design embodies the crass, bottom-line mentality that puts personal profit above the public good.

To the young Oshima, the films marked a shift away from the dominant production-line mentality of directors.

The final blow came, Mr. Francischetti said, when the Federal Communications Commission deregulated the pay phone industry in 1985, creating fierce competition and a bottom-line mentality.

It may be penny-wise and pound-foolish, but it's the bottom-line mentality that some casinos just can't get over".