Posts Tagged ‘Toyota;’

Dead Body Stinks from the Head

A key reason for companies’ downhill slide is undoubtedly the quality of CEO. Most turnaround situations arise because of the CEO’s incompetence, ineptness, carelessness, ego and /or inexperience. It is simply too much to ask or expect the incumbent management to be objective in evaluating its past performance when the CEO is probably the same [...]

Business Growth – Looking At Darwin And The Demon

As commercial processes commoditize in a developed economy, they are outsourced or transferred offshore or both, leaving onshore companies with unrelenting pressure to come up with the next wave of innovation. Failure to innovate equals failure to differentiate equals failure to garner the profits and revenues needed to attract capital investment. It behooves us all [...]

How Much Should You Expect From a … Change?

Toyota looks for a 1 % change from each change it puts in place. This company started from the ashes of WWII and is now the biggest auto company in the world. One could say that its management and shareholders fully understand that success comes in small increments, by having patience and being willing to [...]