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A Drive for Excellence

Coaching Tip

Here in Michigan, the automotive industry has always been an everyday topic of conversation. In the past, college graduates would gain employment as automotive industry managers and high school graduates would be well compensated by seeking factory jobs. products during the 10s and 20s. .

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50 Ways to Leave your Lover: Keep Failing Til the Last Thing You Try Is Successful

Mills Scofield

To many, a modern meat plant might seem somewhat “shocking”, but to us this “automotive assembly plant operating in reverse” is common place and, in fact, we are not easily “shocked” by much of anything (for evidence of this you are welcome to view the video on our website).

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Wells Fargo and the Slippery Slope of Sales Incentives

Harvard Business Review

In the early 1990s Sears sought to restore its reputation with $46 million in coupons because some employees of its automotive repair division (who were paid a commission on sales of parts and services) had allegedly enticed customers into authorizing and paying for needless repairs. Will eliminating sales goals do it?

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Everyone Loses in a US vs. China Trade War

Harvard Business Review

China is America's third-largest export market, behind Canada and Mexico, accounting for 7% of US exports as of August 2011. America's biggest exports to China in the first eight months of 2011 were waste and scrap ($8 billion, 12% of total exports), soybeans ($5 billion, 8%), aircraft and related items ($4.2

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How Volvo Reinvented Itself Through Hiring

Harvard Business Review

To get the skills and change agents it needed, Volvo looked outside the automotive industry. Between 2011 and 2015, the company added 3,000 new people in engineering and development. For example, its members asked why every design change in a car required a dozen signatures and managed to cut that number in half.

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How Mergers Change the Way Your Company Competes

Harvard Business Review

The DOJ opposed the 2011 merger that AT&T and T-Mobile wanted because it feared that the merger would threaten the role of T-Mobile as a disruptive “ un-carrier ” in the telecom industry. This kind of competition can also be affected by mergers and may in itself drive deal making.

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Should Companies Care If Hurricane Sandy Was "Caused" By Climate Change?

Harvard Business Review

As the VP of global risk management told me, the most expensive events in company history in every weather category (flood, earthquake, hail, wind, etc.) After making $50 million in insurance claims in 2011 alone, the company's insurance rates will certainly rise. occurred in the last few years.