Romney: "Don't Fire the Sales Force!"

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  upshift

  11/20/08 | Report as spam

  RE: Romney: "Don't Fire the Sales Force!"

  Hard to disagree.
  
  However can the big 3 deliver what the consumer
  actually wants?

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  Canti99

  11/20/08 | Report as spam

  RE: Romney:

  Of course the big three have the ability to deliver goods that are desirable, does anyone remember how GM took the industry to the next level when it designed and developed the 1955 small block chevy? yes, before my time, nonetheless they did it with the desire to be the best. They already build the best trucks in the world (except for lack of focus on diesels for all of the lineup).
  
  I have never met an engineer that didn't say he (or she) could build it, its a matter of "if they'll build it". Let them hit chapter 11, and get them to start innovating (like they did way back when they were hungry) and get off the fence and build the best there is!
  
  Get back to basics, what is it that you want? and how are you going to get there?
  
  Lazy CEO's crying because their SUV's are clumsy behemouths that used to make major dollars for them. let the cycle run its course and get busy restructuring, we smaller business have to do it.
  
  Business 101 all over again.

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  bjwtaylor

  11/20/08 | Report as spam

  RE: Romney:

  No bailouts for these lazy behemoths. Let them make their own way. If they are bailed out, they have little incentive to improve.
  
  Daimler bailed Chrysler out, remember, and here they are at the trough with the other 2, German owner or not. Salvation didn't come with a new infusion of cash or with german ownership. It will only come with serious revision of the way they plan their car and manage their money.
  
  A company can cut it or not. Why should the taxpayer pay billions to simple delay the inevitable? Someone who can cut it will step into their place if they fail, whether new versions of themselves or new investors. The American market is just too big not to support car manufacturers, whoever they may be.

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  Geoffrey James, Sales Machine

  11/20/08 | Report as spam

  RE: Romney:

  What slayed me is that the CEOs came to D.C. in private jets. If there was any single action that showed how far their heads are inserted where the sun don't shine, that was it. CEO stupidity. It's apparently as inevitable as death and taxes.

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  bajohnson111

  12/01/08 | Report as spam

  RE: Romney:

  Good stuff. Seth Godin also advocates letting the automakers enter bankruptcy, but with the hope that they go away and are replaced by hundreds of new car companies. What does everyone think of that?
  
  BTW, Romney seems to have a higher opinion of marketing than you do ("New faces should be recruited from unrelated industries ??? from companies widely respected for excellence in marketing, innovation, creativity and labor relations."