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To: John Mansfield who wrote (27478)	2/1/1999 5:11:00 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116764

John -- I have spent a fair amount of time going back and forth to Japan (about 25 times). There is extraordinary engineering talent there, and it is, at first blush, hard to understand how the implications could escape them. Engineering talent is not the problem. The quality of Japanese management and organization is the problem. How we ever got taken with the idea that Japan has superior management and a superior industrial structure is beyond me -- but it may be that Y2K shows just how bad it can be. Denial, delay, avoidance, an inability to speak up and call it like it is, these are the quailities that have kept Japan in the doldrums for a decade. They are also the traits that will shut them down next January. By the way, Y2K is but one of a growing number of problems that Japan is having trouble facing. There seems to be a real leaderhip deficit in Japan -- they don't know who they are or were they are going -- that is my view.