Productivity trends supported these assertions, leading some opinion leaders to predict that
- barring a radical change in american management practices
- japan and other asian countries would soon dominate world trade and manufacturing, relegating the U.S. to second-tier economic status
in particular, these analysts decried traditional american managerial practices such as elitist leadership, autocratic authority structures, short-term thinking,financial orientation,lack of innovation, declining product quality,Adversarial supplier relationships(Including employees),inadequate training,and,in general,living off past successes