curiouscat

A Modest Proposal For The U.S. Auto Industry: Stop Building Cars

Toyota and Honda make plenty manufacturing cars in the USA. The leadership of the big 3 have done such a bad job that it makes sense to questions pretty much anything they do but I don't think the evidence supports any difficulty manufacturing profitably in the USA.

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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