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This macro approach contrasts Naipaul's selective interviewing method of meeting individuals from specific countries, then expanding from their private narratives towards schematized descriptions of the societies that produced those narratives. Above them hovered a series of small pyramids whose shape recalled the rusticated stones on the facades of Renaissance palaces, and whose overall organization brought to mind a roof, with the final result that it looked like a schematized pagoda. Building on a rigorously schematized yet internally flexible set of operating principles grounded in a 1902 invention by founder Sakichi Toyoda--an automated loom that would shut itself down the instant a single thread snapped--the Japanese enterprise has grown from a small textile factory to the most profitable automobile manufacturer in the world. |
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