Comments on Soultek.com: Women, common sense lost on Detroit?

Hi Anne- I'll check that out. I couldn't agree mo...

2006-12-01T08:13:00.000-08:00

Hi Anne-

I'll check that out. I couldn't agree more with your assessment of old corporate cultures.

Bill Gates wrote a book titled somthing close to 'Business at the Speed of Thought', a title which I've always found fascinating.

Whether we like it or not, the digital age demands almost instantaneous transformation and innovation. Technology doesn't care about the good old days. That sort of future shock is a human condition.

Do you think men more inclined to suffer future shock due to ego-driven virility?

Hello Soultek, I'm Anne Doyle, president of Anne...

2006-12-01T07:38:00.001-08:00

Hello Soultek,

I'm Anne Doyle, president of Anne Doyle Strategies (annedoylestrategies.com) and the former Ford Motor Company communications executive who wrote the recent piece in Automotive News that you referred to in your recent piece on the "rigid thinkintg" that is keeping Detroit in the stone age.

In my book, it's all about culture. As one woman auto exec who recently left told me, "Women know a lost cause when they see one." Survival is certainly Job One for the former "big three," but Job Two must certainly be transformation of the corporate culture that has no way to accept or channel innovation. Thus, the are driving talented innovators -- some of the very people they need to transform themselves -- away in record numbers. If you are interested inside insight on how top women see the corporate culture inside the auto industry's North American nerve center these days, you'll find more in "Old Economy Cultures are a Dead Weight in Race for 21st Century Culture," which I just posted on the home page of my web site.

Hello Soultek, I'm Anne Doyle, president of Anne...

2006-12-01T07:38:00.000-08:00