curiouscat's Comments RSS Syndication from SeekingAlpha.com http://seekingalpha.comuser/183322/comments http://seekingalpha.com/article/149620-google-youtube-best-m-a-ever?source=feed#comment-594247 594247 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:57:40 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/145825-is-execution-more-important-than-vision?source=feed#comment-566274 566274 management.curiouscatb.../ Doing the right things poorly is probably better than doing the wrong things well, but you really need to do the right things well. Good execution is in many ways easier. You don't need to invent new things. You just need to practice what has been known for decades but so many fail to do so that if you just follow good advice from Deming, Ackoff, Ohno... you can clean up on those that fail to adopt sensible management practices.]]> Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:45:47 -0400 management.curiouscatb.../ Doing the right things poorly is probably better than doing the wrong things well, but you really need to do the right things well. Good execution is in many ways easier. You don't need to invent new things. You just need to practice what has been known for decades but so many fail to do so that if you just follow good advice from Deming, Ackoff, Ohno... you can clean up on those that fail to adopt sensible management practices.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/131348-about-that-google-earnings-beat?source=feed#comment-466293 466293 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:23:36 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/108389-a-modest-proposal-for-the-u-s-auto-industry-stop-building-cars?source=feed#comment-317841 317841
What doesn't work is pointy haired bosses leading companies that manufacturing cars in the USA. Others like Toyota and Honda do it too well for the big 3 leaders to pay themselves 10 or 100 times more more than the executives at Toyota and Honda that are making it so obvious how bad the big 3 managers are.

Chrysler hired a senior Toyota manager this year - it doesn't work to just hire a couple people and think that will fix the problem. The management systems they have in place don't work. Then need to stop thinking the executives should live like kings and just push numbers around on a spreadsheet and everything will be fine.

If they actually would have managed their companies well the last few decades they would be fine now. It is extremely poor management that got them in this mess.

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What doesn't work is pointy haired bosses leading companies that manufacturing cars in the USA. Others like Toyota and Honda do it too well for the big 3 leaders to pay themselves 10 or 100 times more more than the executives at Toyota and Honda that are making it so obvious how bad the big 3 managers are.

Chrysler hired a senior Toyota manager this year - it doesn't work to just hire a couple people and think that will fix the problem. The management systems they have in place don't work. Then need to stop thinking the executives should live like kings and just push numbers around on a spreadsheet and everything will be fine.

If they actually would have managed their companies well the last few decades they would be fine now. It is extremely poor management that got them in this mess.

management.curiouscatb.../]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/105960-better-to-let-automakers-go-bankrupt?source=feed#comment-306378 306378 williamghunter.net/art... "American Motors is an old, weak fish with bad eyesight in a turbulent sea populated with aggressive, healthy predators. These predators are familiar - both foreign (Japanese and European) and domestic (General Motors and Ford). Some are new, unfamiliar breeds from such places as Korea.
I predict American Motors will stop making cars in Wisconsin in the near future, whether or not the state's money is used for a temporary propping-up operation." Obviously times have changed and GM is not an "aggressive, healthy predator" any longer.]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:45:08 -0500 williamghunter.net/art... "American Motors is an old, weak fish with bad eyesight in a turbulent sea populated with aggressive, healthy predators. These predators are familiar - both foreign (Japanese and European) and domestic (General Motors and Ford). Some are new, unfamiliar breeds from such places as Korea.
I predict American Motors will stop making cars in Wisconsin in the near future, whether or not the state's money is used for a temporary propping-up operation." Obviously times have changed and GM is not an "aggressive, healthy predator" any longer.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/80797-internet-companies-can-t-manage-so-they-must-be-taken-over?source=feed#comment-182916 182916 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:23:36 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/73264-will-toyota-lose-its-edge?source=feed#comment-156450 156450 management.curiouscatb.../ They have not adopted the obscene pay structure of most American companies. Toyota managers focus on the problems and what can be improved not trying to explain why they are great (even though they just lost a few billion this last year or two).

Toyota's desire is to be the premier employer (where employees want to work) where they are located. Toyota's management is incredibly good. I don't believe Toyota's advantage is due to lower labor costs (to any significant extent). But the long term will show whether Toyota continues there success. I believe so, and own Toyota stock.

]]> Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:13:06 -0400 management.curiouscatb.../ They have not adopted the obscene pay structure of most American companies. Toyota managers focus on the problems and what can be improved not trying to explain why they are great (even though they just lost a few billion this last year or two).

Toyota's desire is to be the premier employer (where employees want to work) where they are located. Toyota's management is incredibly good. I don't believe Toyota's advantage is due to lower labor costs (to any significant extent). But the long term will show whether Toyota continues there success. I believe so, and own Toyota stock.

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