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View Poll Results: Do you think of Toyota as rice? | |||
Yes | 5 | 14.71% | |
No | 25 | 73.53% | |
Undecided | 4 | 11.76% | |
Voters: 34. You may not vote on this poll |
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07-18-2009, 12:31 PM | #19 |
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There is a book about how they became the #1 car company in the world.
YarisHilton should read it.
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07-18-2009, 05:37 PM | #20 | |
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French is a great language in which to sneer or curse. It was also once the scientific language of Europe, especially at the turn of the 20th century, when Poincare and others were leaders in Math and Physics. I have two years of University French and two years of Spanish. The two together in one head with marginal fluency in both can cause amazing gaffes. Gene |
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07-18-2009, 05:38 PM | #21 |
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07-18-2009, 07:46 PM | #22 |
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their notion of "kaizen", where everyone is encouraged to contribute to improvement, is something I instituted in my own company.
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07-19-2009, 04:51 AM | #23 |
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Haha yes I know what you mean, when I went to Italy last month and tried to use whatever limited vocabulary I had, I subconsciously fell back to trying to speak Thai
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07-19-2009, 12:04 PM | #24 | |
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Some companies make a mess out of Kaizen. One firm I once worked for used to demand a cost/benefit analysis of each suggestion. Another firm refused to give credit unless the suggestion netted the firm at least $1,000,000 profit per year. One group of pirates, a "name" manufacturer based in Japan, sometimes would steal suggestions from employees, develop them and then give the prize to the lead engineer. The saddest part of suggestions is that really radical and market shaking suggestions will be the first ones tossed out as "useless". We keep hearing all sorts of asinine predictions by CEOs (like Watson of IBM claiming that there might be a market for five computers in the entire world) and must realize that sometimes if you want something new you have to go do it yourself. Gene |
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07-19-2009, 10:58 PM | #25 |
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Nothing new regarding suggestions. Quite a few firms profited handsomely from some of my suggestions, and they weren't Japanese. Not much you can do about it, just eat it....
And no one in North America is interested in market-shaking, no matter what the discipline. I spent a lot of time in the handicap transport business, a design for a tiedown system that we developed was, as you say, useless. 25+ years later, it is still superior to any other existing system, but no one wants to talk to me about it, unless I give over the patents for free. I ain't gonna make a pile of cash because I wasn't looking for the money in the first place, but I won't make some other clown rich, either. |
07-20-2009, 01:02 PM | #26 |
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Here in P.R. Hondas = Abundance of Rice!!!
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07-20-2009, 08:22 PM | #27 | |
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07-20-2009, 08:28 PM | #28 |
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LOL @ the survey results.
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07-20-2009, 11:54 PM | #29 |
rarer than JDM -1 of 1!
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I didn't vote, but my last name means middle of ricefield. "naka" middle Ta or da= rice.
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07-20-2009, 11:56 PM | #30 |
rarer than JDM -1 of 1!
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One more thing, mazda actually is a japanese last name, came from Matsuda. Same has honda, and toyota.
I don't know about nissan, i'mma bout to goggle it right now. |
07-21-2009, 09:55 AM | #31 |
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how about "toyo tyre"
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07-22-2009, 12:09 AM | #32 | |
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All I could think was "Oh you poor Toyota..."
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