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That he gets carried away is part of his appeal, yet his razzmatazz does not charm or convince all listeners. Harvard Sociologist David Riesman finds Iacocca's "showmanship" distasteful. "Somewhere between the excessive caution of most businessmen and the excessive bravado of Iacocca," Riesman says, "there is a position of responsible corporate leadership." A recent article in the New Republic suggests that Iacocca's mythic managerial skills may be seriously overrated. The Wall Street Journal, Iacocca's longtime antagonist, recently called him the "Motor City's most famous motor mouth." On the subject of trade conflicts with the Japanese...
...make a movie. It is rather that the good part is yet to come. A 13-part mini-series might be a more appropriate format to exploit what promises to be one of Hollywood's most interesting sagas, the very real corporate marriage of two of the most flamboyant businessmen in the world...
This time it was different. The majesty of the White House, the Marine sentries, the presidential panoply--none of it overwhelmed the audience as it had only a couple of years before. These were a dozen of the nation's top businessmen, and they were worried as they pulled up chairs in the Roosevelt Room with Ronald Reagan, incoming Chief of Staff Donald Regan and their inner circle...
Robert Beck, chairman of both the Prudential Insurance Co. of America and the Business Roundtable, was polite but very plainspoken. Businessmen were frightened by the deficits. They had all concluded there was no chance the U.S. was going to grow its way out of those huge shortfalls. Their priorities for this year, from one through ten, were all the same: do something about the deficits...
Most U.S. businessmen are convinced that the Japanese stack the trade deck outrageously against them. Chicago-based FMC sells soda ash, used in glassmaking and other processes, for $70 to $75 a ton in the U.S.; the product sells for $240 to $250 a ton in Japan. But FMC and other U.S. makers are allowed to supply only 200,000 of Japan's annual requirement of 1.4 million tons. Says FMC Chairman Robert H. Malott: "Soda ash is soda ash is soda ash. If that market were truly open, we would have...