Their bosses must now try to forge lean firms that facilitate global trade at low cost and risk.
So only lean firms will survive.BP's share price has risen by a fifth since its deal with Amoco was announced.
But "if you say you're not going to annoy anyone, you might as well give up," adds Mr Jeffrey.In this section Infrastruggles Setting the desk jockeys free Hard times, lean firms One message, or many?
The trouble with this rosy prediction is that the balance-sheets of many Indian infrastructure firms are as potholed as the roads they resurface.In this section Infrastruggles Setting the desk jockeys free Hard times, lean firms One message, or many?
(Opening the laptop in a Starbucks is not quite the same thing: enough stick-in-the-muds go to coffee shops to drink coffee that it is not a proper working environment).In this section Infrastruggles Setting the desk jockeys free Hard times, lean firms One message, or many?
At the end of the movie they all need a shave and are begging on the street.Fred Elliott Milford, MassachusettsLiberating workSIR – Contrary to what you suggest, America's productivity gains are not being "squeezed" out of workers ("Hard times, lean firms", December 31st).
Rather, it was a productivity boost that has continued in defiance of expert predictions that workers can only be squeezed so hard for a short while.In this section Infrastruggles Setting the desk jockeys free Hard times, lean firms One message, or many?
In 2010 Burger King stopped employing ethnic agencies such as LatinWorks, which specialised in the Hispanic market, to address its consumers as a whole rather than taking a segmented approach.In this section Infrastruggles Setting the desk jockeys free Hard times, lean firms One message, or many?
Farm-raised in natural spring-fed ponds, the bass are fed a high-protein diet that, as Dr. Atkins could have predicted, gives the filets a lean, firm-fleshed texture.
That would leave Andersen a much leaner firm, focused on public companies in the United States and without much business overseas.
