To have a healthy and thriving business, there must be healthy relationships with the C. E. O. S. in the organization and I'm not referring to the Chief Executive Offficers. I am talking about the Customers, the Employees, the Owner (or stockholders), and the Suppliers.
Companies in Mexico are not going to do well if they don't have some connection to not just markets, but also suppliers and technology from the United States.
One has to understand China correctly. Our management there consists of native Chinese, we produce locally and our suppliers also come from China. In this way, we too can also enjoy the cost advantages.
GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do.
Having a situation where you have got in conflict with your suppliers all the time is not a great place to be.
Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'. . . Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover.
Everyone is a customer for somebody, or a supplier to somebody.
Only recently have people begun to recognise that working with suppliers is just as important as listening to customers.
By preventing a free market in education, a handful of social engineers - backed by the industries that profit from compulsory schooling: teacher colleges, textbook publishers, materials suppliers, et al. - have ensured that most of our children will not have an education, even though they may be thoroughly schooled.
We like people who are honest. Honest in argument, honest with clients, honest with suppliers, honest with the company - and above all, honest with consumers.
Let us ask our suppliers to come and help us to solve our problems.
We’ve got customers. We’ve got suppliers. We’ve got employees. We’ve got unions. We’ve got communities. We’ve got all of these things that go into making up whether a business succeeds or fails.
At a time when we are dealing with unpredictable suppliers of energy abroad and higher gas costs at home, the decision to increase domestic energy exploration is integral to a balanced, common sense energy policy.
