To: TobagoJack who wrote (37990 ) 8/6/2008 8:52:40 AM From: elmatador Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 217561 Changing the menu and how the Chinese manage. QUOTE: Attempting to alter the menu served to his multi-millionaire players is turning into a wild goose chase, Brazil coach Dunga has said. "When you ask the chef to change the menu, he has to talk to his boss, who has to talk to his boss, who has to talk to his boss and by that time the Olympics are over," said Dunga, whose team face Belgium in Shenyang on Thursday. UNQUOTE I have experienced the same lack of decisions with Huawei when we were doing MTN Irancell in Iran. They could not agree on the contracts with the local subcontractors -Nokia was getting all materials and Huawei was being left behind waiitng for someone outside Iran to decide- and started much late than Nokia and Ericsson. To resolve the hurdle MTN brought a Serbian from Nigeria who had experience managing Huawei. The Serbian explained me he was also from a former communist country. Therefore he knew he had to give the Chinese orders to execute the work. Else without orders they would not move. He told the Chinese what to do. Go buy materials and stock and pay more and show MTN they could do it. They did and in six month caught up. They gave Nokia a hard time. Nokia was, previously, posing themselves as champions and got a hard time once the Serbian entered the field buying all towers and shelters and leaving the compeition empty handed. The German Wehrmacht during WWII was not much better soldiers -although Nazis want to show them as supermen. What they had was a better decision making chain. The lowly officers could decide in the field courses of action. While the French and Brits had the follow the chain of command. Bin Laden escaped the US when was pinpointed at the Pak Afghan border. General Tommy Franks, in charge of the task force of catching set his HQ in Florida; the orders took too long to reach the officers in Afghanistan, thus allowing Osama Bin Laden to escape.