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...Management in a Mess Detroit's corporate culture is obviously complicit in the industry's deterioration, just as it was guilty of creating an unparalleled manufacturing system decades earlier. The Detroit approach has been plan-command-control, stemming from that original control freak, Henry Ford. At GM, a management hierarchy that had been created by GM's master planner, Alfred P. Sloan, in the '20s - GM's first and most successful restructuring - was still functioning in the '80s. Management's job was to create the products, design the production system and provide solutions if there were problems. Everyone else followed...
...price of halfway restructurings was steep. In 1985, GM aped Japan's practice of building global cars - the idea was to share chassis and parts across brands, a strategy that made sense at the engineering level. At the consumer level, it was a disaster. Internal clashes for control removed imagination from design, resulting in look-alike Buicks, Oldsmobiles and Pontiacs. Sales declined; cue another restructuring. The Germans, who have their own auto culture, were no match for Chrysler after they bought the company in 1998. No wonder they gave it back...
...cannot believe my eyes right now. I. Cannot. Believe. My. Eyes.”The five us of leaned forward in our seats with unspeakable delight, staring at the bright blues and yellows dancing before us. We were completely enraptured. We had somehow lost control of our limbs, which were flailing wildly. We looked—and felt—like a bunch of junkies tripping on acid.We were watching “High School Musical 3.”I feel your eyes rolling reader, and I don’t blame you. Frankly, it surprises...
...Martin over incumbent Republican Saxby Chambliss would keep alive the Democratic Party's dreams of a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority to move its agenda successfully through the Senate. Other experts see the race as a big deal for the opposite reason; Democrats with that majority as well as control of the House and White House could overreach, leading to a conservative backlash...
...Colombia look set to deny their remarkably popular conservative President, Alvaro Uribe, a third term when his second expires in 2010. Chávez does have an authoritarian streak and is indeed a gushing admirer of Castro, and with the legislature and judiciary firmly under Chávez's control, Venezuela's democratic institutions are hardly a showcase...