首页
登录
职称英语
As Toyota and Hummer have learned, growing too fast can be a dangerous thing
As Toyota and Hummer have learned, growing too fast can be a dangerous thing
游客
2023-09-05
26
管理
问题
As Toyota and Hummer have learned, growing too fast can be a dangerous thing.
From its origins, success in the auto industry has been about scale. In the early decades of the 20th century, Henry Ford was able to democratize the car and dominate the early auto industry because he built, and then continually improved, an assembly line that could make huge numbers of cars in a short amount of time. Bigger was always better.
But two items from yesterday’s dispatch in the ongoing car dramas indicate why that’s not always true.
Item No. 1: The Toyota debacle (失败). The mass failings of Toyota’s legendary quality-control efforts are now on full display in the hearings that have subjected CEO Akio Toyoda to a ritualized set of apologies and humiliations (羞辱). In recent years Toyota rode its efficiency and better financial management — it didn’t have to contend with the burdensome pension and healthcare benefits that sandbagged the Big Three (i.e. General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler) — to large gains in market share and significant growth. In 2007 Toyota surpassed GM as the largest carmaker in the world.
But something got lost in the process. As Toyoda acknowledged on Wednesday: "I fear the pace at which we have grown may have been too quick. I would like to point out here that Toyota’s priority has traditionally been: first, safety; second, quality; and third, volume. These priorities became confused." In other words, Toyoda seemed to admit, the company went wrong by moving size — i.e., volume — to the front of the line.
Item No. 2: After a series of failed efforts to sell it, GM announced that its Hummer brand would be wound down. Hummer had a different problem with bigness than Toyota has. It wasn’t that its production volumes were too high. In 2008 only 2,710 Hummers were sold. Rather, the outsize Hummer was simply too big — too inefficient, too out of step with the times — to succeed in a marketplace in which oil spiked to $150 per barrel and seems to have settled at a plateau above $70 a barrel. As the economy tanked, energy prices rose, and the spirit of the time shifted in favor of conservation, the gas-guzzling Hummer faced a double whammy (厄运): consumers had difficulty affording the vehicle’s high list price as well as difficulty affording its high operating price.
Size does matter when it comes to auto production. But not always in the way manufacturers think. [br] According to the author, Toyota’s fast growth in recent years was attributed to______
选项
答案
its efficiency and better financial management
解析
题干中的介词to表明,本空应填一名词(短语)。根据题干中的Toyota,growth和in recent years定位到第四段第三句。题干中的was attributed to是对rode“凭借,依靠”的同义转述,故答案为rode的宾语its efficiency and better financial management。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/2986253.html
相关试题推荐
______heisawelllearnedsurgeonbuthecannotevenperformaminoroperation
Spaceisadangerousplace,notonlybecauseofmeteors(流星)butalsobecaus
Spaceisadangerousplace,notonlybecauseofmeteors(流星)butalsobecaus
Spaceisadangerousplace,notonlybecauseofmeteors(流星)butalsobecaus
Spaceisadangerousplace,notonlybecauseofmeteors(流星)butalsobecaus
Spaceisadangerousplace,notonlybecauseofmeteors(流星)butalsobecaus
Spaceisadangerousplace,notonlybecauseofmeteors(流星)butalsobecaus
Spaceisadangerousplace,notonlybecauseofmeteors(流星)butalsobecaus
AsToyotaandHummerhavelearned,growingtoofastcanbeadangerousth
AsToyotaandHummerhavelearned,growingtoofastcanbeadangerousth
随机试题
Womendriversaremorelikelytobeinvolvedinanaccident,accordingtosc
女孩,4岁。因高热2h,惊厥2次,无吐泻,于1995年8月12日来院急诊。发病前
以下选项中,哪个不属于人寿保险的分类()。A.普通型人寿保险 B.年金
( )于1907年创办了“儿童之家”,招收3—7岁贫民儿童。A.欧文 B.福
张某于2012年3月,购买了临街商住两用商品房。该商住房共2层,一层为商业用房,
质量为m的质点M,受有两个力F和R的作用,产生水平向左的加速度a,它在x轴方向
资料一 上世纪90年代中后期的计划生育政策以及城市化、工业化发展,造成农
下列事项可由股东大会以特别决议通过的有()。 A.公司增加或者减少注册资本
知识点:糖尿病的治疗 下列属于阻止肠道吸收糖的治疗糖尿病的药物是 A.葡萄糖
含铜IUD的主要作用机制不包括( )。A.影响子宫内膜细胞糖原代谢和雌激素摄入
最新回复
(
0
)