Teemu: the companies having trouble competing in
the global market place are more
often than not big US corporations .... I have a
cultural explanation for this and in a nut shell
it boils down to amount of red tape that makes
Russian bureaucracy look efficent...
Teemu, this makes perfect sense to me. You may be
interested to know that my Brazilian friends
critique US medicine for the same reason. In some
countries, certain issues can be resolved verbally
and acted upon quickly. In the US, everything has
to be documented and mediated by lawyers.
In US medicine, for example, doctors often are
forced--in order to protect themselves against
possible litigation by creating a lawyer-proof
paper trail--to order tests they know are totally
unnecessary, driving up the cost of health care in
general.
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