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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (23199)	9/27/2007 3:27:25 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217588

The concept of the corporation doesn't allow for the optimum product development. Concept understood as how corporations operate. There are severe flaws on the concept and that why they end up failing and disappearing. This is exemplified by how countries 'owned' industries and then they lost it. They were the pioneers, they had the best minds, they had the market right at their step and they've lost all that they had. This is a topic I love and have studied it for the past 35 years -I read almost all books of J.K. Galbraith and Peter Druecker- since I started working. You are absolute right. It is the corporate culture that sunk a Westinghouse, a RCA, a Kodak an AEG-Telefunken, AMC British Leyland... To make matters worse: People, very smart people, whose livelihood depend on advising those corporations. Because they cannot tell them the truth -else they would lose that livelihood- they tip toe around the issues and end up not helping them because at every step of the way they are afraid of hurting that corporate culture.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (23199)	9/27/2007 4:03:51 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217588

Not really Mary: <The problem that Detroit has is that it can not do this at a competitive price if it has to do the manufacturing in the United States. That is not the fault of the US automakers. We should not be beating ourselves to death with blame. This is the reality that we have to live with and find ways around it. With our higher standard of living, we can not compete in manufacturing. > Toyota has built a LOT of car manufacturing in the USA. So it's quite possible to have production in the USA and be the most competitive producer on Earth. But not using old, feather-bedded over-paid slip-shod attitudes. Mqurice

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (23199)	9/27/2007 4:06:50 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217588

Sarbanes-Oxley = a downturn in corporate risk-taking. This is another shoot on the foot. Now, two academic studies commissioned by the American Enterprise Institute conclude that SOX, as it’s fondly known, has reduced the corporate risk-taking that produces economic growth. One study led by Professor Kenneth Lehn at the University of Pittsburgh compared 4000 US companies with close to 1000 similar companies in the UK , concluding that the U.S. players were more risk-averse. The other was Homeland Security. Keep adding those pellets the US is shotting at its foot and the picture looks real ugly.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (23199)	9/27/2007 9:37:56 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217588

Have never bought a piece of Detroit iron in my entire car-driving life. VW, Volvo, Nissan, Toyota, and the love of my life, my Disco, which was built when BMW owned Rover, but Lucifer Electronics was still making the electrical parts, which were very unreliable. If I had money to burn, or an honest mechanic, I'd still drive a Disco. A lot of cars are like that, they may be expensive to drive but the driver loves them. I asked a lot of Explorer drivers, and nobody loves their Explorer.