Lessons from Big Auto’s disastrous missteps
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Lessons from Big Auto’s disastrous missteps
cnn.com – Jan 23, 2008
So I was all eyes and ears here at the North American International Auto Show which opened to the public over the weekend after several days of press previews and glitzy industry events. If ever there were a poster child for how a small business should not play the innovation game it’s here at this massive shrine to All Things Automotive… Carmakers play the role of innovators – there is much talk here about new power plants and improved navigation and multimedia – but from a technological perspective it’s mostly smoke and mirrors. Today’s cars sport cool gadgets and spiffy bodies but inside they have the same old internally combusted engines and roll on the same old rubber tires. The good news for small business is that the auto industry’s sometimes feeble attempts to innovate offer a rare learning opportunity for the rest of us. Here is what I learned at the show: Don’t over-promise. I have covered purchased and wrestled with developing technology – much of it vaporware – for decades. And I can say with confidence that the auto industry takes the prize for talking up stuff that’s just not there. Rick Wagoner chairman and CEO of General Motors (.
2008 Washington Auto Show
Washington Post – Jan 23, 2008
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SportingNews.com – Your expert source for NASCAR Auto Racing stats…
SportingNews.com – Jan 23, 2008
(AP) — High above the showroom floor Teresa Earnhardt surveyed her employees as they hurriedly finished setting up for a reception. When everything was finally in place and her media guests had been seated the owner of Dale Earnhardt Inc. gracefully made her way to the front of the crowd to deliver a brief welcoming address. Then the woman who has spent the past seven years shunning the press stepped off the stage and worked the room. Although she disappeared before the formal presentation of DEI’s season goals her effort didn’t go unnoticed.
‘Grand Theft Auto IV’ Details Unloaded | Game News Story |…
MTV.com – Jan 23, 2008
textContenturl:window. href} {button:true} ); NEW YORK — You can’t get fat anymore. You can take a taxi anywhere on the map. There may be bums lying in front of a car on the street. And for once someone other than you might be getting chased by the police. These are just a few of the details we soaked in Tuesday afternoon during a private 90-minute demonstration of “Grand Theft Auto IV” at developer Rockstar Games’ headquarters in downtown Manhattan.
McDowell to drive Cup car for Waltrip after Jarrett’s retirement …
ESPN – Jan 23, 2008
– Michael McDowell was tabbed Wednesday todrive a Sprint Cup car for Michael Waltrip Racing after DaleJarrett’s retirement. The 23-year-old McDowell will get his Cup car when Jarrett stepsout of his ride following the fifth race of this season. DavidReutimann will actually replace Jarrett in the No. 44 Camry whileMcDowell will get Reutimann’s No.
SportingNews.com – Your expert source for NASCAR Auto Racing stats…
SportingNews.com – Jan 23, 2008
(AP) — For Petty Enterprises where winning was once as expected as the boss showing up in his trademark dark glasses and cowboy hats that old feeling is beginning to return. Winless since 1999 the pioneer NASCAR team is trying hard to leave behind its also-ran status. Two years ago the team owned by stock car icon Richard Petty and his son Kyle showed signs of new life by bringing championship crew chief Robbie Loomis a former Petty employee back into the fold as vice president of operations and hiring 2000 NASCAR champion Bobby Labonte to drive its famed No. More personnel hires followed and in an even bigger move to get back into the mainstream the Petty team has left its home of 60 years in Level Cross N.
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