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...Bob Slate Stationers employee said his storehad a slow day as well...
...novelty has worn off--and with it the notion that DaimlerChrysler was a merger of equals. Just a year ago, the CEOs of Daimler-Benz and Chrysler Corp.--Jurgen Schrempp and Bob Eaton, respectively--made the surprise announcement that their two companies were going to combine. But Eaton, the executive who presided over Chrysler's transformation into America's hottest car company, ceded too much authority too early, giving the Germans an advantage in the high-stakes game of musical chairs that happens when two huge corporations marry...
...Chrysler culture that evolved in the '90s--a creative collection of industry renegades held in check by Eaton--was spectacularly unsuited for this European model of management. Eaton shaped a team of hotshots led by product wizards Bob Lutz and Francois Castaing. In addition to inventing the minivan and sport-utility vehicle, categories that are such profit machines today, Chrysler's designers proved with models like the Viper and the Prowler that cars don't have to be boring...
...effect, Schrempp may have saved Chrysler. Even before the merger, Lutz and Castaing had resigned, and the camaraderie was fading. "We were in a transition that would have continued, in part because of Bob's age," concedes Stallkamp. "[The merger] gave us a very strong leader and solved the problem sooner rather than later...
...Bob Slate Stationers, the decision to open a second location in Harvard Square had little to do with different customer bases or convenience, though those factors did help the second location thrive...