Posted: December-03-2008 at 2:58pm | IP Logged	Tweet

LOL!!!! I liked this email so much I decided to post it here:

So sad, yet so very true!  What can or will we do as American's to get this mess fixed?!?

Subject: A MODERN PARABLE . .

A Japanese company (Toyota) and an American company (Ford) decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri  River. Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance  before the race.

On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile.

The  Americans, very discouraged and depressed, decided to investigate the reason  for the crushing defeat.

 A management team made up of senior management was formed to investigate and recommend appropriate action.

Their conclusion was the Japanese had 8 people rowing and 1 person steering, while  the American team had 8 people steering and 1 person rowing.

Feeling a deeper study was in order, American management hired a consulting company and  paid them a large amount of money for a second opinion.

They advised, of course, that too many people were steering the boat, while not enough  people were rowing.

Not sure of how to utilize that information, but  wanting to prevent another loss to the Japanese, the rowing team's management  structure was totally reorganized to 4 steering supervisors, 3 area steering  superintendents, and 1 assistant superintendent steering manager.

They also implemented a new performance system that would give the 1 person rowing the boat greater incentive to work harder. It was called the  'Rowing Team  Quality First Program,' with meetings, dinners, and free pens for the rower.  There was discussion of getting new paddles, canoes, and other equipment,  extra vacation days for practices and bonuses.

The next year the  Japanese won by two miles.

Humiliated, the American management laid off  the rower for poor performance, halted development of a new canoe, sold the paddles, and canceled all capital investments for new equipment.

The money  saved was distributed to the Senior Executives as bonuses and the next year's  racing team was out-sourced to India.

                                 The End.

Here's something  else to think about:

Ford has spent the last thirty years moving all its factories out of the US , claiming they can't make money paying American  wages.

TOYOTA has spent the last thirty years building more than a  dozen plants inside the US.

The last quarter's results:  TOYOTA makes 4  billion in profits while Ford racked up 9 billion in losses.

Ford folks  are still scratching their heads.
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