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  • Noel One year ago

    Luke Jensen is quite an impressive communicator… it was no shock to me that Wikipedia says he’s a motivational speaker. Good show!

    • maximo zeledon One year ago

      Toyota? The growth story is old news and this puppy ate more than it can swallow. People actually need money to buy cars. With a global economic slowdown in the horizon shorting is the likely scenario.

      http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aXqatkEWuSbY&refer=home

      • Richard One year ago

        Here’s the real threat Max

        President Hugo Chavez opens a new Iranian-backed car factory in central Venezuela.

        http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6190202.stm

        • howard Lindzon One year ago

          thx guys, not an old story, but does not interst me either.

          they do deliver the goods though and prove our model of carmaking does not work.

          • howard Lindzon One year ago

            i have played tennis with luke. straight sets.

            • Richard One year ago

              and… our model of carmaking would be?

              • maximo zeledon One year ago

                Richard—

                I can play the cynic too. Why bother with a car factory when you have an AKA-47 factory with your buddy Putin in the Orinoco. In Africa, Asia, the mid east and Latin America people need Kalashnikovs more than automobiles. How is that for cynical?

                • maximo zeledon One year ago

                  Toyota’s secret is not in the engineering at all…it’s the process and culture which part of corporate DNA we don’t have here in American auto industry. U.S. auto makers have been reverse-engineering Toyota products and operations for years, and they can’t recreate the magic. Why? The same reason you can’t turn Britney Spears into an Alicia Keys or Christina Aguilera.

                  Dr. Angelo Kinicki of Arizona State University makes the following points in regards to Toyota way:

                  -The information revolution has taken some old-time sources of competitive advantage — technology, manufacturing processes, and others — out of the equation. So more than ever, leadership, strategy and culture are important to a company’s success.

                  - Executives who seek input from all levels of their organization can build a knowledge base that allows them to formulate smarter strategy.

                  - Smart leadership can also help produce strong, healthy business cultures that make those strategies easier to implement.

                  - While autocratic leaders can help their companies make money, open-minded leaders are likely to help their companies make more money.

                  • Richard One year ago

                    Hmmm, don’t see how you could construe my comment as cynical. Regardless.

                    Re: Kinicki Have you read, ‘The Crowd’ by Le Bon? I don’t believe we’re talking two issues here. I believe we have one issue with two solution.

                    • Going Like Sixty One year ago

                      Second time I didn’t watch… not a good trend folks.

                      • BSD One year ago

                        Sixty - you are missing out my friend. This was another great episode. Not everything can be a home run, but L Finesse served this one out of the court.

                        • Panda Bearnanke One year ago

                          Was this all some kind of dress rehearsal for a Wallstrip sports spinoff (Sportsstrip?) dependant on Gatorade or something?

                          • Russ One year ago

                            “Oh, what a feeling!”

                            Remember the Ron Howard comedy called Gung Ho? It contrasted the American and Japanese work ethic at a car plant operated by an Asian company called Assan Motors. Toyota later used the film as an example of how not to manage Americans.

                            Of course, I have no idea what this has to do with tennis. Sorry, I brought the whole thing up.

                            • maximo zeledon One year ago

                              Richard–

                              You have to be a cynic to imagine an Iranian-backed car factory in central Venezuela.

                              • Richard One year ago

                                Max:

                                Third World DIYing is a reality. No imagination required. In the end will the crowd gain control? I doubt it.

                                • maximo zeledon One year ago

                                  Richard–

                                  I don’t usually like to discuss politics with strangers, but some fundamental philosophical assumptions need to be defined here since you insist. 1) The crowd is never in control and despots are everywhere. 2) Power shifts occur all the time (e.g. in less than 50 yrs England went from world domination to a third-rate power needing a helping hand from the U.S.) 3) All power is relative (e.g. the United States in Vietnam and Iraq). 4) The so called “Third World” is nothing more than a conceptual academic model invented in the West–and despite the poverty, misery and human suffering in this so called “Third World” people go on living, overcoming murder, famine, decease, exploitation and neglect.

                                  Who is dying one ipod at a time is the West and just take a trip to Europe to find out on your own. Actually Europe died long ago by their own hand and moronic imperial and racist dellusions…Europe died in Verdun, in the furnaces of Auschwitz and more recently in Srebrenica. The “third world” is not dying, but it requires a certain degree of imagination to believe that it is.

                                  • Richard One year ago

                                    Sounds like you have an ax to grind Max. I’ll leave you alone.

                                    • maximo zeledon One year ago

                                      No ax to grind. I just get carried away some times. When I said the West that includes me, Richard.
                                      I have Polish and Spanish blood in addition to my Nicaraguan side. Did not mean to be hostile, but we in the West do need to see things from other perspectives. You seem like a cool guy, so I hope we can continue talking.

                                      • Richard One year ago

                                        Ok.

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