The biggest automaker in the world admits it screwed up. Rigging emissions tests on its diesel cars will cost Volkswagen billions. But what's happened to car owners' trust?
Our guest is Henry Mintzberg, a Cleghorn professor of management studies at 缅北强奸 and author of聽Rebalancing Society: Radical Renewal Beyond, Left, Right, and Center.聽He argues that what happened at Volkswagen was not a scandal, but a part of a pattern or syndrome.
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Published on: 29 Sep 2015
Written by Henry Mintzberg
鈥榃hat was Volkswagen thinking?鈥� This question makes a big assumption: that the Volkswagen people were thinking about anything beyond their greed. About decency, about our environment, about their progeny.
Okay, so you won鈥檛 be buying a Volkswagen. A Chevrolet? Watch out for the ignition. Or how about a Toyota? Just duck as the airbag comes your way. Do you, by any chance, see a pattern? Have webeen thinking?
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Published on: 28 Sep 2015
Poor old VW, caught in the giant pincers of the U.S. regulatory machine that keeps closing in on car markers and car drivers in the name of the climate and the environment.聽
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Published on: 25 Sep 2015
Written by聽Henry Mintzberg
What were they thinking? That鈥檚 the question on everyone鈥檚 mind as the Volkswagen crisis unfolds. That question makes a big assumption: that the company鈥檚 leaders were thinking about anything beyond their greed. About decency, about our environment, about their progeny.
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Published on: 25 Sep 2015
