Donald Green: playing to win

Article Abstract:

Donald Green, who has worked in many many aspects of high-technology businesses over several decades, has now launched a start-up telecommunications company: Optilink Corp. The company produces the Litespan 2000 which digitizes voice traffic and multiplexes the result into a single bit stream. The Litespan 2000 is programmable to handle advanced services such as ISDN and internal computer networks. Green believes in applying new technology to existing needs, and has based numerous career decisions on that philosophy. His management decisions are based on facts and figures, and tempered with an interest in the people with whom he works. Green is not the stereotypical workaholic entrepreneur. He enjoys several hobbies and tries to maintain a balances lifestyle.

Telephone and telegraph apparatus, Officials and employees, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Biographies, Networks, Telecommunications, Entrepreneur, Biography, New Company, Profession, Green, Donald, Optilink Corp.

---

When East meets West

Article Abstract:

Management and work styles in the US and Japan are radically different and require some adjustments when workers from each culture are under the same roof. This is happening more and more as the Japanese buy into US companies and retain or hire US workers. Communications is the biggest abnormality that surfaces when East meets West. The problem is part language and part style. US engineers working for Japanese companies find that they have to cooperate with the engineers back in Japan before any final decisions are made. There is no project independence. US engineers work better with Japanese than do non-technical personnel, because they have the common language of engineering, which is less ambiguous than either spoken language.

Japan, Communications, Management Style, Communication, United States, Foreign Languages, Decision Making

---

Outlook: what executives think

Article Abstract:

Top executives from European electronics firms discuss the expected competition and anticipated opportunities that will happen with the unification of the European Community in 1992. Companies represented are Siemens AG, Thomson-CSF, IBM Europe, GE/Tungstram Co, Tungstram Co, ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd and Hitachi Ltd.

Planning, Europe, International Business Machines Corp., IBM, International trade, Thales S.A., Business planning, Hitachi Ltd., Siemens AG, Executive, European Economic Community, Tungsram Company Ltd., ASEA Brown Boveri Ltd.

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Green light. Tools for the trade. Light years ahead
• Abstracts: Corn-to-plastic technology wins honors. Conductive polymers collaboration. Cooperation on cleaning products
• Abstracts: Software. An engineering manager who thrives on challenge. PC upgrade: better graphics and sound
• Abstracts: Compressing the design cycle. Electromagnetic fields: the jury's still out. Too accurate?
• Abstracts: Fielding reliable weapons more quickly. Self-help for defective boards. Digital scopes: 1972

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.