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...Detroiters made the pilgrimage to Fremont en masse to see the miracle of NUMMI. Some dismissed what should have become a model for the entire industry. True, the technology wasn't that innovative. But Toyota had made the workforce integral to improving the system. Workers were not mere labor inputs. GM had no problem understanding the just-in-time inventory system Toyota used, but executing it required a buy-in from the shop floor so that everyone was dedicated to improvement. The Toyota system, says MacDuffie, "relies on contributions from employees. It feels vulnerable, but your willingness to be open...
...have yet to benefit, there is also a clear risk of mission drift. One particularly disturbing trend - since you can't talk about poverty alleviation without talking about women's economic empowerment - is a decrease in the percentage of women being served as MFIs move toward a for-profit model . So making sure that profit doesn't trump mission is critically important...
...Marchionne, Merkel and Sarkozy are part of a generation of Europeans who have long advocated the weaning of business from government aid as a way of fostering competition and improving companies, in accordance with the free-market model of the U.S. But now the financial twister spiraling from Wall Street across the Atlantic has overturned things, with Europe trying to keep up with gargantuan state intervention by Washington, first in the banking and insurance sectors and now in the automobile industry...
What was not anticipated was the 43-year-old dominating the show in more traditional sorts of way: cracking jokes, endearing herself to the public, and occasionally stabbing rival contestants in the back. Most sensationally, Luxuria alleged a tryst between an Argentinian model and Italian showboy. Both repeatedly denied any dirty deeds...
...quickly offered Luxuria a slot to run for the European Parliament. "Vladimir has an elevated degree of solidarity and brotherhood and at the same time is very sensitive and aware of others and their dynamics," said the ever-somber Communist leader Paolo Ferrero. "She is a very positive anthropological model, in my view." A columnist in the Communist party newspaper likened Luxuria's victory to Barack Obama...