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With more than 440,000 committed employees,
DaimlerChrysler is a partnership of talented and
creative people who have one thing in common:
A passion for designing and manufacturing outstanding
products and for providing excellent services.
Now it is important to bring together the people of
DaimlerChrysler and their ideas – an exchange at all
levels. Four examples – as representatives of many
more – illustrate this.
Jim Donlon and Jürgen Walker are the first top mana-
gers at DaimlerChrysler to move over to the central
offices on the other side of the Atlantic at the begin-
ning of 1999: Walker’s new office is in Auburn Hills,
while Donlon has set up office in Möhringen.
Jim Donlon has already had extremely good experience
with German: After all, he met his wife in a German
course in college. Now both are having an opportunity
to apply in practice what they learned back then; since
February 1, 1999, Donlon is head of world-wide Group
Controlling, based in Stuttgart. The former chief con-
troller from Auburn Hills intends to work together with
his new colleagues to combine the best ideas from Ger-
many and America, and is looking forward to the assign-
ment: “If we can merge the outstanding capabilities
of our people, then I am firmly convinced that nothing
can stop us. We have the potential to become one of the
best companies in the world, if not the very best.”
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PEOPLE OF DAIMLERCHRYSLER
People of
DaimlerChrysler
Jürgen Walker, now responsible for financial controlling
in Auburn Hills, became familiar with the success of
the former Chrysler Corporation three years ago, as the
head of Business Management and Controlling Passen-
ger Cars, in connection with a benchmarking project.
Even then, the two companies were already the most
profitable companies in the passenger car business.
“The success models of the two companies were diffe-
rent, but both led to top results,” Walker observes. He is
enthusiastic about the open working atmosphere in his
new venue in Auburn Hills. “The willingness to accept
new conditions, subject areas and challenges is remark-
able. This attitude will guarantee our success over the
long term.”