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Thank you very much.
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This one...
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It's quite an honor to be here
in Tampere addressing this audience
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of the most outstanding
textile workers in the world today.
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I see on all the faces here today
a touching childlike eagerness
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to tackle the biggest
textiles questions in the world.
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How do we at the WTO fit in?
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What we want to do at the WTO
is help you achieve your dollar results.
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And in just 20 minutes from now,
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I'm going to show you
the WTO's very own solution
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to two of the very biggest problems
in management.
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One-maintaining rapport
with distant workforce,
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and two-maintaining
healthful amounts of leisure.
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This solution, appropriately enough,
is based in textiles.
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But how did workers
ever get to be a problem?
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Before unveiling our solution,
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I'd like to talk a bit about the history
of the worker management problem.
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We all know about the American
Civil War-at least in the U.S.
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It was the bloodiest, least-profitable war
in the history of our country.