Motivation (The Brian Tracy Success Library)

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The X Factor

There were several studies done by management consultants in Europe in the late 1940s and early 1950s comparing the output of British automobile manufacturing plants to those of West German plants. What they found was that the most efficient German auto manufacturing plants were outproducing the British plants by as much as four to one. At first, the British researchers blamed the disparity on the fact that the German plants were all new, having been rebuilt after World War II, while most of the British plants were old and still using machinery from the 1930s.

To test this theory, they compared new British plants to new German plants that were each manufacturing the same size of car, each with a unionized workforce, and each ...