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The problem, McLean decided, was the maritime mindset: Pan-Atlantic’s staff, experienced in the slow-moving ways of the maritime industry, did not know how to sell to an industrial traffic manager who cared not about ships, but about getting freight to the customer on schedule at low cost. McLean brought in a team of aggressive young trucking execu
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a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.
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The only people who could ever produce great products were those who actually made them.
James A. Belasco • Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead
Daniel Gross • 2020 Startup Themes
THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
In our period, new technology has been developed, but remains in need of a guiding philosophy
Eric Schmidt • The Age of AI: And Our Human Future
From the inside the picture was not quite so good. Not only were we not competitive with Ford in the low-price field — where the big volume and substantial future growth lay — but in the middle, where we were concentrated with duplication, we did not know what we were trying to do except to sell cars which, in a sense, took volume from each other.
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