On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Bob Calco<[email protected]> wrote: > http://bit.ly/X1aSk > Obviously Obama couldn't have anyone in charge of GM who might know more > than he does about the auto industry. ----------------------------------------
I am not sure that someone who LIVES the car industry is wise for CEO over the past 10 years. The world just came off of a boom but the car companies could at best discount the crap out of vehicles to make sales. There were so many different campaigns when money was flowing like lava from the volcano. Employee pricing. WTF? Are sales so bad that you have to pull this gimmick? Was it any one thing? Unions, Investments in Real Estate, high steel prices, crappy parts now standard in OEM, EPA pushing higher economy, poor R&D projects that didn't pan out, funding of all popular sports, tremendous advertising budgets, changes in health care costs for hundreds of thousands or millions of workers and retirees, buying any auto company that looked like it was outside of your market, fighting to get into China and India with a car that they would purchase,.... ? These are all above the Lean Manufacturing we all so often hear about today, right? What part of that list will an insider have a better advantage with? Should they come out of MFG, Finance, HR, R&D, Testing, International Law, ....? -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Web and Windows Development Independent Contractor Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
