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1 Time, January 2, 1956.

2 Micheline Maynard and Nick Bunkley, “Foreign Automakers Pass Detroit in Monthly Sales,” New York Times, August 2, 2007.

3 Alex Taylor III, “GM and Me,” Fortune, December 8, 2008.

4 Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 2007) 165.

5 William J. Duiker and Jackson J. Spielvogel, World History 5th Edition (Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth, 2007) 615.

6 Jeffrey Liker, The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World’s Greatest Manufacturer (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004), 16.

7 David Magee, How Toyota Became #1: Leadership Lessons from the World’s Greatest Car Company (New York: Penguin Group, 2007), 15.

8 Liker, The Toyota Way ...

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