求翻译：为了找到薄弱环节，管理者必须以不落窠臼的方式进入市场或挑战竞争对手。例如，在一家大型的美国跨国公司里，我们要求几个区域经理（country manager）描述一下日本竞争对手在当地市场都在做些什么。第一位经理回答：“他们在低端市场攻击我们，日本公司总是先从低端进入。”第二个发言者觉得这个论点很有趣，但是他并不赞同：“在我的市场中，他们没有提供任何低端产品。相反，他们在高端市场倒是有些令人眼前一亮的产品。我们真的应该通过逆向工程的方法研究一下这些东西。”另一位同事却描述了另一种情况，他说：“他们没有从我这儿抢走任何生意，并且他们刚刚提出要以非常优惠的条件为我供应元件。”在每个国家，来自日本的竞争对手都发现了不同的薄弱环节。是什么意思？

In order to find a weak link, managers must be entering the market or get out of the rut challenge competitors. For example, a large United States transnational corporations, we require a few regional Manager (country Manager) describe Japan competition in local markets are doing something. First Manager replied: "they attack us in the low-end market, Japan company always go from low end. "Second speakers think that argument is interesting, but he does not agree with:" in my market, they do not provide any low end products. Instead they rather's eyes light up in the high-end market products. We really should go through the reverse engineering method to look at these things. "Another colleagues but described the other cases, he said:" any business they snatched from me here, and they just made you want to supply components for me to very favourable conditions. "In every country, from Japan's competitors have found different vulnerabilities.