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Mini Hughes
The Auto Manufacturers are Victims of Social Progress! Everybody Gets a Trophy – Winner or Loser!
by G. Hugh Bodell
Sometime in the late 1980’s a group of sociologists convinced parents, teachers and coaches that telling kids that they lost a competition was bad for their little psyches and if they thought the purpose of competition was to win they would probably grow up to be disturbed, serial killer adults.
Thus was born the philosophy, “Everybody Gets A Trophy – Winner Or Loser!”
Well in the 1980s, that new stratagem of removing the competition from competitive endeavors was limited to the sports of the very young, generally under 12 years old. Everybody in kindergarten through eighth grade went home smiling after a game of baseball or soccer, they were all friends and it didn’t matter that the score was 86 to zero, they all did their best and nobody was any better than anyone else.
In the 1990s, these happy-go-lucky souls went on to high school, college and the workforce, merrily bringing their “Competition is evil” philosophy with them. If a high school coach or a college professor even inferred that Mary was better than Johnny at anything from Badminton to Biology they were chastised and accused of creating strife and stress in the poor children.
Thus in the 1990s, the middle and higher institutions of both learning and competition reinforced the absurd practice of equal rewards for success or failure.
We find ourselves now in the 21st century and the practice has worked its way up to the boardrooms of industry and the halls of government.
What began as a kindness to five-year-old Barbara, who kept tripping over the soccer ball but received equal praise and reward as five-year-old Karen, who kicked 9 goals, has evolved into the mantra of all losers, among who are the heads of three of the largest corporations in the world.
Let’s take a moment to examine the results of this misguided practice “Everybody gets a trophy – winner or loser”, as it relates to industry.
There is currently a mini-industry developing in advising companies on how to deal with a population of twenty to thirty year olds who look aghast when you tell them they screwed up and either leave the company or call their mommies to have them yell at the boss.
The boss and the company, in an effort to avoid the exodus of a generation of new (albeit incompetent) employees attend sessions with consultants. There, they learn how they should not offend a dumb ass who put the original in the copy machine wrong side down and made 300 copies of blank paper, by telling him/her that they are dumb asses. No, they should reward their inadequate effort by telling them “Good boy/girl, you’re a winner, I’ll just make the copies my self!”
Well, the managers and executives, for self preservation, bought into the absurd concept, as did the teachers and the coaches, and now we are seeing the inevitable outcome.
General Motors, Ford and Chrysler cannot compete in their own country with BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes Benz, Toyota or Nissan.
Competition and the steps that must be taken to win that competition have become anathema to the attitudes and tactics of the leadership of these three losers.
Twenty years after the first naïve idealist postulated, “Telling a kid who can’t catch that he/she should find a sport or pastime other than baseball, is setting the stage for his/her life as a disturbed, serial killer adult” what do we find?
The corporate behemoths are shouting, “It’s not about building better more appropriate vehicles cheaper than our competition, it’s about participating in the industry and keeping employees working.
“We’re good guys. We’re doing our best, we’re in the game, but we just can’t compete with those other guys and make any money. Does that mean we shouldn’t be in the game? No, it surely doesn’t BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes Benz, Toyota and Nissan can make money in the United States’ auto manufacturing business, we can’t. So you, the American people will have to give us a trophy even when we loose.
“That trophy should be 25 billion bucks now and every quarter ...forever!
“Hell that is what those other guys are making, so we should get the same.”
Think about it, isn’t that what the various bailouts are, just an extension of the erred philosophy that “EVERYBODY GETS A TROPHY – WINNER OR LOSER!”
About the Author
After a consulting career designing and implementing technology solutions to complex challenges, in October 2006, Mr. Bodell began the process of reinventing myself as a writer intending to concentrate on technical/business writing, an area in which he has extensive experience. This worked, but the compulsion to venture into other areas of authorship took over and he found himself much more diversified than first intended.
His achievements to date include, among others:
- An article on the benefits of investing in Belize in a rising tax environment
- A commentary on the Auto Industry Bailout
- An extensive business plan for a joint venture of a group of Veterinarians and the leading School of Veterinarian Medicine in the US (Partially available at http://www.ghughbodell.com)
Two mystery novels
- Treachery in Turtle Bay, his first achievement in the International Mystery Fiction genre is looking for a publisher.
- Treachery In Turtle Bay II - Oil ~ Dollars ~ Diplomacy & The Sinister Three, deals with the Oil industry, Iraq and the theft of $1 Billion/month in Iraqi Oil cash flow, which, by the way, exceeds $6 billion/Month.
This work is targeted for completion by the end of 2008 and it too will be on the hunt for a publisher.
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