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...from the seat of industry power, get lots of staff support but pursue their visions more or less on their own. DreamWorks movies, made mostly in the Hollywood suburb of Glendale, are team efforts. A Pixar film may have one writer besides the director; it's total auteur handicraft. Most DreamWorks movies credit two directors and several writers, and play like the spiffiest vaudeville. The DreamWorkers aren't in the masterpiece business; they just want to provide an expert good time...
...conditions with which they were working. This naturalism made them an embodiment of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, which imbued the creation of furniture and the domestic with a political aspect; working in opposition to the sterilizing effects of the Industrial Revolution, the movement emphasized a return to handicraft, an importance of organic materials, and an emphasis on style within the middle-class home. For the brothers Greene, this was manifested in the subtle details of their furniture design. One living room table was sent to the builders with the instructions that the “architect will give...
...There are significantly fewer tourists coming to Russia right now, and this is negatively affecting our sales," says Oleg Korotkov, director of Semyonovskaya Painting, a top Russian handicraft maker. Korotkov's company, which is based in the Nizhny Novgorod region of central Russia, seemed to be weathering the storm until the financial crisis finally struck him and his 70 employees around the end of January. Orders from within Russia have fallen fivefold, he says, while combined foreign and domestic sales have fallen 30% to 40% this year. "Our sales were supported through the end of the year just on inertia...
Sport bikes may dominate Europe, but Buell's methodology is a distinctly American recipe, one that he has honed by fostering a culture of cooperation, ownership and innovation. The nine models Buell sells can be run at any time on its single 50-person assembly line. Each station uses handicraft instead of the automation characteristic of most lines. Small teams promote ownership, and there are no individual supervisors, which cuts out a hierarchical layer. To avoid boredom, each employee is required to know the job ahead of him and behind him on the line and rotates throughout the week. "People...
...heavy freight of motivation and even logic-though scanalized and law-abiding citizens are not likely to appreciate either. As a classic example, the Luddites who smashed the new textile machines at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution were venting their rage on a new technology that threatened their handicraft jobs...