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...high as 17. For the most part, today's board members are expected to work at their task; each directorship costs a man at least one day's time a month, not counting several hours of homework. Communications between the directors and corporate officers, once haphazard, have been improved to the extent that many executives spend most of their time at the job of pulling together information for the directors. And whereas boards used to be heavily weighted with production men, today's emphasis on marketing has given a strong boardroom representation to distribution experts...
...them. No auto bears his name, though he made possible the variety of names and styles that mark today's auto industry. He is still spoken of with awe and respect in Detroit, where he performed one of the business miracles of the century: the transformation of a haphazard and inefficient collection of automakers into the world's largest and most profitable industrial enterprise...
Profit Motive. What happened to Studebaker? South Bend was too remote from Detroit to enable the company to move quickly with all the industry's new trends, and Studebaker's ancient plant there was hopelessly inefficient. The company's dealer organization was too small, haphazard and ineffectual. Efforts to revitalize the company were snarled by lack of cash and a series of incredible production snafus. In the past five years, Studebaker has lost at least $40 million in automaking; this year, despite the introduction of pleasantly restyled 1964 models, sales for the first eleven months fell...
...insights, is obscured by lack of organization. Geismar might learn from those academicians he so despises ("James is the perfect academic novelist") that literary criticism and literary history demand more than just chronological order. Even a reader intimately familiar with James's work will be confused by Geismar's haphazard approach to analysis and by his assumption that everybody already knows the psychological history of the James family. Sadly, Geismar bases his entire thesis on James's personal inadequacies...
...ruling agrarian Haiti is not an easy job. The nation's only communications system, for instance, is a haphazard affair controlled entirely by the army. Daily, the country's capital, Port-au-Prince, goes without electricity for three aggravating and unpredictable hourly periods because not enough power can be generated to supply the city's rather unspectacular needs...