Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fierce internal clashes. In late 1987, Chrysler was slipping again, and Iacocca began to recognize the problems, including the overly autocratic force of his own leadership. He instigated what has since become known as Truth Week, during which the company's top 500 executives went to a rural Wisconsin retreat to conduct an unsparing self-examination. Doug Anderson, a motivational expert who acted as a session leader, recalls the intensity of emotion. "The pain within the Chrysler corporation was evident from Day One," he says. "They cared a lot about the business and took enormous pride in having been part...
Even more surprising was Iacocca's admission that in spite of all his public Japan-bashing, Japan was in fact building superior cars. After the retreat, Chrysler assembled a team of 25 young recruits to spend a year at Honda's plant in Marysville, Ohio, to study everything from its assembly methods to corporate culture, which the Japanese company allowed as a political courtesy. No senior executives went along on the mission. "We wanted open minds not poisoned by Detroit," admits Iacocca. Their report, still secret, led to a greater emphasis on customer satisfaction, an increase in continual training...
...workers of a once proud industry further savaged in such an uncaring manner. Major even came under attack from renegade Tories who threatened to vote with Labour to overturn the decision -- and put the government's survival in jeopardy. After six days of unrelenting derision, Major made a humiliating retreat, suspending the closure orders on 21 mines and ordering a thorough review of the entire program...
Epps said he thinks the College is making progress in solving the problems that led to last year's tensions. He cited the race relations retreat earlier this year and closer cooperation between the Harvard Foundation and the Office of Race Relations and Minority Affairs...
...council will participate in a retreat this Sunday to set goals for the coming year...