what happened to taking pride in your work
The wife and I 150 miles one way yesterday to check out the Keystone dealer with a good selection. We had a certain floor plan we wanted and they had it. Now I know Montana isn't really top of the lin...
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laknox wrote:Technologies in race car circuits (Indy, Formula 1) tend to appear decades later in conventional cars. For example, the engine that made V-8s obsolete is the 70 Hp per liter engine that (if I remember) won Indy in 1948. If your car does not do that today, then it is obsolete. And it is obviously defective. You can hear its loud exhaust. Low performance engines make more noise. And therefore require more pistons to replace energy wasted making noise.
As a bit of a "car guy", I'll firmly dispute your statement that v-8s are obsolete. If they were, don't you think that race cars would all be running 4-cyl engines?
Indy no longer races V-8 engines.
BTW, when the GM vice president of drive train development was discussing a decade previous development of 70 HP/liter engines in the mid-1970s, he was also discussing development of variable valve timing and electrically driven valves (manufactured by Magnavox - yes the TV company). Those technologies were that old and stifled when business school graduates started designing cars in the 1970s.
Nardelli was running Home Depot into the ground. So they paid him $200 million to leave. Nardelli does what business school trained management does - enrich themselves.
Nardelli then ran Chrysler into backruptcy by doing what business school grads do. Nardelli's manaagement company is now running Acme Supermarkets where store close to make spread sheets look more profitable.
Is Nardelli knowledgeable of hardware, autos, and groceries? Of course not. He understand cash flow, cost controls, and other support functions. Therefore innovation was impossible. Costs increased. Innovators were stifled. Management padded their compensation packages. Employees and customers became victims. Nardelli got rich at their expense. He did what is taught in business schools.
Remember Flint's water? All key decision makers were business school graduates. Flint was created by cost controls.
What is the employment experience of each RV manufacturer's top management?
