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14-07-2024, 03:03 PM | #91 | |||
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They can certainly offer advice to the people who make it through though, assuming someone wants to actually listen to them The best manager I've ever had wasn't even from the automotive/manufacturing industry, he was a personal trainer managing the head office of a manufacturing company, who was younger than me, he actually listened to what I had to say though. What skills he did have was building soft influence/power and relationship management, he had the guys with the experience behind him and he backed us. Last edited by Franco Cozzo; 14-07-2024 at 03:13 PM. |
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14-07-2024, 03:22 PM | #92 | ||||
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massive exports of coal, iron ore and gas to major partners like Japan, Korea and China Imports of finished goods back from those major trading partners meant that Australia were well in the positive. FTA with Thailand was supposed to provide low cost vehicles…. LOL, WTF happened there? Thinking deeper, those Thai finished goods was a way of eliminating all those pesky unions and businesses that continually looking for tax breaks and offsetting losses against revenue. Clearly, they didn’t care about the loss of business activity here and the impact on whole communities. Everywhere I used to see manufacturing plants, I see warehouses or storage tanks in place of refineries.. Quote:
it’s a constant battle of justifying why they should even exist and all Ford cares about in todays world is selling the most profitable mix of vehicles. So yeah, we are fortunate that buyers are embracing Ranger and Everest in record numbers but yes, the on going disappointment is how Ford fails to leverage low cost production in China to deliver all the other vehicles it should be selling…..It just seems like it’s cheaper and easier to do nothing and take the low hanging fruit… Last edited by jpd80; 14-07-2024 at 03:29 PM. |
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14-07-2024, 03:33 PM | #93 | |||
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Some of it would be driven by ideology but its short sided thats left us in a huge mess. I'm aware Ford Australia doesn't call the shots but they can also kick, scream, jump up and down and have a sook constantly - but they don't. The only time they'd make an effort to fix some of the problems is if Ranger and Everest supply was threatened. |
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