Transportation and distribution

History is bound to repeat itself.

This time, what's good for GM really is what's good for America.

Lessons from car dealerships.

As ports, highways, railways, and airports run out of room, the world faces a looming transportation crisis. The current meltdown masks the threat, but...

I am in Rome, Italy. Gas prices here are roughly $6 a gallon and many of the cars on roads look like two-door golf carts. As far back as 1976, Italians...

Technology transfer isn’t second-class innovation.

It could be part office, part home, and part vehicle.

Lessons from NASA and Ford.

I like Bob Lutz. I worked with him for three years (2006-2008) during my work with Rick Wagoner and his senior team on the attempt to turnaround the fortunes...

Fewer drivers could mean less revenue.

In my experience, there are three perpetual business puzzles—change, people, and technology—and the trick is figuring out how to get them working for you instead of against you. My own approach is to try to control change—anticipate it, master it, exploit it—by putting people and technology at the head of my list of priorities. Exploiting […]

Better corporate policies around sleep can prevent accidents.

A defense of Haystack, the controversial parking app.

Last week I was riding through the bustling streets of Bangalore when my colleague made a provocative statement: "I think the Tata Nano is going to be...

For decades the difficulty of motivating salespeople has been frustrating sales and marketing managers. To the most effective ones, two things are clear: one, the job is difficult; two, there is no one simple solution. Believing that “good salespeople are born, not made,” many managers recognize that recruiting is important. Others holding that “if you […]

For years, Toyota has been the darling of the green business world. The hybrid Prius was a legitimate business home run (2 million sold), and it helped...

And it's realizing that now.

You can't repair a culture when the business is based on illegality.

Good leaders make their motives clear and communicate them well.

Its move into car insurance could be just the beginning.