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To: Rob L. who wrote (825)	8/3/1998 2:17:00 PM
From: Paul Shread	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Re American decisionmaking: Duh.

To: Rob L. who wrote (825)	8/4/1998 2:22:00 PM
From: marginmike	Respond to of 34857

What rock did you crawl from? The high tech,new technology companies are extremly open. In fact the free flow of ideas is encouraged, and demanded. At INTEL the ceo cits in a cubicle office like everone else to encourage the spread of ideas. The new industries in the United States have improved upon the notion of a group decision created by the Japenese. The Europeans are still trying to figure out lean production, and flexible manufacturing. There is elitism, and mgmt hierarchys reminiscent of the USA in the 70-80's. If you comprehended the article it eluded to Nokia's exception to this European way of doing business. In this way Nokia is an example of a US high Tech firm. One of the few in Europe, I may add. The Techs in the USA have succeded due to the open flow of ideas between MGMT and employees. Heck most of the employees are Millionaires having a great stake in their companies. So please in the future try not to rah rah Europe so much. The USA kicks their a-- in almost every industry. Nokia is one of the few bright spots in a continent of Banks and insurence companies, with a touch of protected manufacturers(Nokia being one). Europe has a lot of great things to brag about. However its industrial advancement, and organizational behavioe aint one of them