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Leadership – Unsafe at Any Speed?

Great Leadership By Dan

While leadership can confer ever-increasing levels of power, authority and compensation, it also carries with it greater and greater responsibility, just like automobile manufacturing. I don’t like Ralph Nader and I didn’t like the book, but there was definitely a role for government in automotive safety.”

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

You can be the founder of a new process to improve customer service, a more effective way to attract top human capital, a company-sponsored conference or any number of initiatives that bring value to your organization. But you don’t have to found a new business to get noticed.

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What Driverless Cars Mean for Today’s Automakers

Harvard Business Review

The automotive industry has opened up again. In a world where cars can drive themselves and passengers don’t need to look at the road, we can imagine cars being built around conference tables. For automotive companies, my intuition is that this might become the hardest shift to deal with.

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The Less-Is-Best Approach to Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The epitome of a "loose reins" approach, though, is French automotive parts maker FAVI, a 600-person company led by a CEO, Jean-Francois Zobrist, who describes himself as "a stupid and lazy manager" who has "no idea of what people are doing."

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Predict Cultural Conflicts on Your Team

Harvard Business Review

Here’s a letter I received from an executive at automotive supplier Valeo, a French company with big client bases in Germany and Japan, and a growing presence in China. The biggest challenge comes when differences are complex in surprising ways.

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Case Study: Can You Fix a Toxic Culture Without Firing People?

Harvard Business Review

FB Holdings had made it through the financial crisis of 2008 without losing money—but the climate control systems divisions, a Tier 1 automotive supplier, had not fared as well. It was Noelle’s third scheduled meeting to review financials, and again she was alone in a conference room waiting for people to show up.

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What the Auto Industry Can Learn from Cloud Computing

Harvard Business Review

The five largest automotive companies in the world generate more than 750 billion euro in annual revenue. It may be a long time before cloud transportation companies offer anywhere near the same variety that ownership can confer. Transportation is one of the world’s largest industries.