Like Fashion, You're Either In or You're Out
In reading Barry Lynn's essay, Unmade in America, I realized that the business world and the production aspects of everything truly lack any real communication skills. When I think of assembly lines, I am always referring to that episode of Family Guy, where Peter is standing in front of the line, watching potential and hazardous toys pass before him as he stands there in a drunken stupor. Or even Homer Simpson at the nuclear power plant. As I try to inject some comic relief into this, I really can't help but wonder what the fuss is about. Lynn rambles on and on about global business and how tires at the Ford car factory would go through one end, then a Model T would come out the other. SO WHAT?! The car needs to be made, regardless of how it went from being just a tire.
Mr. Lynn begins his essay with a little tangent about Enron. I will be totally honest with you, I don't know the specifics of the Enron downfall and nor do I really care. Enron had its issues. Maybe because it was lacking any legitimate communication skills. Mr. Lynn then proceeds to talk about computers and to me, that sparked up the word "competition". Computer businesses are very cutthroat, like the fashion world. Whether it's Apple or Hewlett-Packard, or the company he states the most Dell, one company tries to outdo the other. Or one tries to merge with the other to take on the now puny other companies. Competition makes the business world sweeter, and it's bascially all about the benjamins... baby. But I do think Mr. Lynn is right when he talked about asking that company what they would do if their sources were cut off and they said they would just go somewhere else. That's the perfect answer. When money talks, you gotta walk in order to stay afloat. He also refers to Cisco Systems because like Dell, it uses the Command and Control technique that has other companies design and create for them. The whole essay was an entire mouthful to swallow and I don't think I got the most of it. But I do think that assmbly lines, despite how tedious it may seem, it works.
Let me shout out two of my classmates for their opinions on this- Chris's post Command and Control Model states at the end "Haven't we learned anything from Enron?" Chris, looking at the post I just wrote, I can honestly say I haven't. And Alexis's post, "Unmade in America" Response states that we truly take for granted our power and it can be taken from us if we don't look. She totally hit the target with that.
Mr. Lynn begins his essay with a little tangent about Enron. I will be totally honest with you, I don't know the specifics of the Enron downfall and nor do I really care. Enron had its issues. Maybe because it was lacking any legitimate communication skills. Mr. Lynn then proceeds to talk about computers and to me, that sparked up the word "competition". Computer businesses are very cutthroat, like the fashion world. Whether it's Apple or Hewlett-Packard, or the company he states the most Dell, one company tries to outdo the other. Or one tries to merge with the other to take on the now puny other companies. Competition makes the business world sweeter, and it's bascially all about the benjamins... baby. But I do think Mr. Lynn is right when he talked about asking that company what they would do if their sources were cut off and they said they would just go somewhere else. That's the perfect answer. When money talks, you gotta walk in order to stay afloat. He also refers to Cisco Systems because like Dell, it uses the Command and Control technique that has other companies design and create for them. The whole essay was an entire mouthful to swallow and I don't think I got the most of it. But I do think that assmbly lines, despite how tedious it may seem, it works.
Let me shout out two of my classmates for their opinions on this- Chris's post Command and Control Model states at the end "Haven't we learned anything from Enron?" Chris, looking at the post I just wrote, I can honestly say I haven't. And Alexis's post, "Unmade in America" Response states that we truly take for granted our power and it can be taken from us if we don't look. She totally hit the target with that.
posted by Jill M. @ 5:27 PM
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