I am well aware of the economic factors at work here.
When someone fails to grow a company, they always blame "market forces", in lay tearms that means they didnt give the market what it wanted as much as their competitor.
The company would have died anyway was a phrase I am resurecting from 1979- it was said about the Chrysler Corporation ....until a man named Iacoca bucked the system and said: "NO!. Chrysler is dying because we aren't giving the buying public what it is asking for." Enter gas saving, part saving, efficient front wheel drive cars, minivans, innovations based on what buyers openly say they want.
Every car maker is NOT cutting jobs...Ford and Chrysler are, in a major way, GM too: but wait, is Daimler Benz laying off it's American workforce? How about Toyota? Nissan? Honda?
Where will the next true leader that has an ear to the marketplace and an understanding of the American people that can lead Chrysler back to profitability come from? Probably not from Germany. Innovation and market leadership has never been Daimler Benz forte. They have in general been able to be good followers and integrate proven technology, slowly.
Intransigent companies that can't or choose not to adapt to their market quickly face the possibility of being replaced. Chrysler Corporation has been running deeply in the red for over a year, extrapolate the data.
Toyota is doing fine, as is Honda, and actually Kia........it's not just a bad market. It's a bad market to be selling Chryslers now though, if you don't give away the farm with it.
As an astute businessman figure this one out:
Fire production workforce, and rather than reinvest those dollars in improving the company, give it all away in incentives. These tactics were used in the second world war by Japanese airplane pilots called "kamakazis".
Another business point: Henry Ford "gave away the farm" to his labor force. He new that workers with money would buy his product. They would also buy other products from businesses that would buy his product. See how it works? Those dirty UAW workers making all that filthy money is the foundation of our economy. When all those dirty workers and their exorbetant salaries go away, Just Exactly Who Is Supposed To Buy Our Products? The Japanese? The Germans? I hear that the economy of India is starting to pick up with all those new American jobs being exported!
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