We study managerial accounting to learn about better decision making. Here Jerry Flint contrasts good and bad decisions. Making a new whatever in a new plant with new people = problems. Which is what has happened to Nissan in MS and Toyota in San Antonio.
Trying to sell different makes of cars under the same roof is also a problem, it results in less not more sales. I have noticed this lately in my study of DSLR cameras. Nikon and Canon dominate the field. Walk in a camera store where the sales folk are supposed to know about cameras, and all they know is Nikon and Canon, pity Olympus Sony Pentax Panasonic et al. These guys need to figure out another marketing channel cause they are not going to move anything in stores with no kowledge of their product. Just yesterday I was i a store where the sales person said oh yeah he had heard some good things about Olympus, now there is a non sales closer if I ever heard one.
Products are generally sold not bought, at least expensive products. This is part of the overall package of making folks want your product.
Professor Elam 
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