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Overview of the Problem
When only top management own the plan, they have to spend most of their time pushing it or it won’t get done.
—H. James Harrington
World War III has begun. This time it is not a war of battleships, bullets, and bombs—this is an economic war. The weapons are televisions, steel, cars, and clothes. This is a war where we have no allies. Every country in the world is out to capture more of its share of the US and world markets. We are being attacked with tires from Brazil, cars from Japan, radios from Taiwan, clothes from China, cosmetics from France, shoes from Italy, beef from Argentina and Australia, and so on.
US business entered the 1980s with a deep-seated resolution to stop the flood of import products and as ...
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