By Leftlane Staff
Wednesday, Jun 21st, 2006 @ 12:36 pm

General Motors is learning some important lessons by selling its vehicles in China that could apply to its problems back at home, explains Newsweek. “There’s a lesson in GM’s success in China: to compete it must act less like a lumbering behemoth and more like a scrappy newcomer,” writes George Wehrfritz. “Taken together, the success of GM in Shanghai, and of Toyota in North America, suggests the problems confronting American automobile manufacturing have nothing to do with the quality of U.S. management, or the inherent costs of its workers. The problem is the way they mix in the century-old bureaucracies of Detroit.”

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