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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (390413)	6/11/2008 2:00:57 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574811

"Detroit has long since adopted Deming's techniques, so that clearly isn't the problem." That is the problem. They haven't. Oh, they make periodic attempts to pretend they have, but it is, at best, on the surface. The fact there is a differentiation between management and the rank and file should be your first clue. The second should be the reliance on inspection. You are familiar with his 14 points? "But the truth of the matter is that Labor is running the companies, and that is certainly worse than having bean counters do it. " Right. Which is why the bean counters get bonuses and the rank and file do give backs. I take it that logic isn't your strong suit? "I have a reasonable understanding of the business. I think you don't." Like with the oil industry, I strongly suspect you don't know what you are talking about. But, don't let that stop you.