Honda: the good news is, it's run by engineers. The bad news is, it's run by engineers, although just how that's bad isn't explained in the article.
Alfa used to be like this, making lots of different models and coming up with all sorts of interesting solutions to all kinds of problems. Unfortunately the company was eventually destroyed when the government bureaucrats who ran it decided to use it as an instrument of social justice instead of a company with which to make and sell cars.
Probably in that if it was run by finance-geeks, there'd be a much better short-term return on capital. In English, better dividends for stockholders.
Posted by: ronaprhys on November 18, 2008 01:02 PMThe bad thing about being run by engineers is that they treat journalists like the brainless chattering parasites they are, instead of the modern royalty they think they should be.
Posted by: Tatterdemalian on November 19, 2008 01:00 AM