“John was in exactly the right place at the right time to understand manufacturing at its deepest level — at a cellular level. His apprenticeship culminated in an insight that was critical to Fiat’s survival. He noticed a persistent gap between what happens on the factory floor of, say, a headlight plant in Birmingham, and what information filters up to headquarters.”

— John Elkann

Reid Hoffman, Masters of scale https://mastersofscale.com/john-elkann-how-to-build-your-company-to-last/, Entrepreneur Magazine, 2017
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