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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: TobagoJack who wrote (66732)	7/30/2005 10:11:54 PM
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"I would not say so, having seen what them guys actually have to do with the enormous and labour heavy network of operations and the tight schedules. I observe that the garment maker is more likely to be successful at everything outside of his industry then many others. Organization skills = success." RE operational/organization management. Back in college one quarter we had one of the top industry managers from GM teach an organizational management class in my business curriculum - he was a down in the trenches type warrior - not some economics theorist up in his ivory tower as the previous quarters professor had been. He had moved GM factories from high priced american cities to cheaper american cities, then on down to mexico and up to canada and then further on out to asia. Always seeking those extra low prices - anyways he said that first transition from america to mexico taught the HQ not to rely on local managers - he had to be sent in to clean up the corruption and theft and logjam - oh my was that a mistake - armored trucks would get robbed almost every payroll - internal jobs sometimes - local corruption officials and mafia type not getting thier cut anymore, they got mexican workers politically riled up about rights and benefits - etc etc. GM fugged up on that first round but learned how to deal with these things - bring in the right local officials, give them the cut but keep only loyal company men in key decision jobs - teach them to fugg their own countryman as GM was doing - hehe. Politically this was driving further wedge between workers and local govt instead of them uniting against GM and making costs go up for the benefit of the workers. You just needed corruptable officials - there were plenty in supply. He tried to get local community purchasing GM cars and adding to sales volume - no go - local culture could not go from third world guttertown to first world street system where GM trucks and cars would drive - did not have the gas and distribution network of roads and oil trucks - few sales to locals - said locals were buying lots of nice 200 dollar FUBU pants type goods though - that work with road system in disrepair unlike GM car - as they moved the factories from the south america and mexico to asia locals tried and tried to get them to stay - no go - the local mexicans found they couldn't easily move over into other industries and thier new found wealth and skills were gone almost as fast as they came - back to crime and farming and beating each other up they went in the town this guy saw - the few mexicans who were really the shining stars moved on over to asia with Mr. GM factory boss pro. Didnt stay and help mexican country men and pass on new knowledge and skill to other mexicans. Anyways I read post here by bubba fred I think that chinese worker sitting on the fence looking at factories in china and waiting til pay goes up before he goes to work - oops - they better think about spearchuckers. GM certainly practicing corruption tricks there like they did in mexico and driving wedge between all this brudderly love and unification. Local theme park in south ga first have high price american, then for a very short time use lower price mexican - then they find the cheapest worker in the world, african tribal man spear chucker who don't even need bowl of rice - just a few bugs and cockroaches make him happy. What to prevent GM and thier transnational ilk from picking up and leaving the yellow man and going to the spear chucker who will work for beads it seems - just to have something to do? Domestic demand could not be spurred in a lot of these other GM factory towns - the infrastructure was not there - but FUBU clothing made out like a bandit and so did Nokia phone - hehe - and I read at the macro level inside domestic demand in china not so hot either - only wealthy coastal/port regions doing well. I never asked Mr. GM factory pro if china was the last stop on the destination of TEOTWAKI - this was a ways back and I guess off everyones radar - but it seems to me africa a little worse off and a little more hungry for skills and rich GM factory man to come in and give them something to do. You say indian are not going to be able to compete - do you also say this about africans? Why should the train stop at china and not have tracks going all the way into cannibalistic african tribe who eat you just to have something take away the boredom? In the race to the bottom with chinese workers wanting rights and more pay - it seems we still have somewhere else to flee. Lot of land over there in africa and population figures I am reading say the biggest aggregate growth will be in african nations next 50 years. In unreal deathmatch who gonna win? The guy that will only compete if you give him nice shiny ak47 and bowl of rice - or the shaka zulu who come up behind you and bash your head in with this stone tool and rock while you grease your nice chinese assault rifle and then eat your entrails? hehe Western nations foregiving lots of african debt, now if I was mr. GM I would be solidyifying ties with the corruptable Kofi Annan type so when yellow man got a little too uncontrollable to my whims anymore I got a lifeboat to jump into - hmmm. Take the best yellow men with me when I leave asia and go to africa. I have said in the past, these multinational western leaders, they descend from the worst scoundrels and crooks this world ever produce - they already got such a head start and know how to crook so well - it bad for everyone all over the globe now - sometimes you got to sacrifice a few sinners to get to the devil - but they are so far beyond reach - I just don't see it - hehe. Devil well protected deep in his HQ halls of power. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled, convince the world he didn't exist - hehe.

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