Bugg Stories vol. 9

if you go out to you can afford to hear the opportunity to do something for your country you should do it and it was with as armando to deviate they're also there because president reagan as methadone while people say well as a political pawn that it wasn't political because of a new boardroom republican party didn't want in the book are still a student but i wanted to see if you could take the principles of business before his tv appointment martin runyon had proven he could take on a challenge the onetime assembly line worker rose to vice president at ford motor company before leaving and building from scratch the nissan manufacturing plant in smyrna tenn but when president reagan tapped him to direct the tennessee valley authority the challenge was different shake up government bureaucracy make it run like a business rehman says he started by setting outrageous

goals not raising rates for three years rates had been raised ten point four percent per year for twenty two straight years of that was really very dramatic for the people out to be done and so the top management one of the woods for three days we talk about who the things we talked about was what kind of businesses are we can this is a river dozens of mortals would a while forgot to two hours a major businesses we were in we stopped coming for surgery like the airline business tia had plane service with the regularly scheduled trips from knoxville to chattanooga to muscle shoals alabama twice a day ryan said

stop longtime tv a year said it would cost the agency money two years later roman asked his chief financial officer just how much the airline kurt had cost the answer a savings of two million dollars in the end bringing got one third of tedious cost trimming the agency's workforce by twenty thousand people critics labeled him carver martin it's a nickname he doesn't exactly mind going to the post office the first day at lunch with twenty employees they just picking from brinlee weren't supervisors and so we had lunch in a gorgeous ok the reason i want to have lunch with users talk to beat most of the post office here the first day and you know anything we are minor like to hear from you for sure that we don't so she says

to do what want you so stark argument or more as a williams and his weight under wessel well i don't know you are good here she says runyon eliminated five levels of management and eventually forty six thousand postal workers to voluntary retirement too much he admits now to many people with experience left still under ryan's to near the us postal service manage surpluses for the first time now is the retired postmaster general it may seem as though runyon has slowed down that really he sits on the board of directors for six corporations he's chairman of leadership a little to see which brings together business and community leaders from chemical tennessee counties runyon says it's important to everyone start thinking of this as a region and understanding that changes that affect one affect us all and finally martin runyon homes the russell cheer and manufacturing excellence and middle tennessee state university and alice fordham i thought warming going to

teach you know so i can do is be consistently wrong india shoes students wanting to learn about business are pretty lucky marvin runyon couldn't sit still very long for national public radio jesus jesus long