> > 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, ....?
In principle it's not necessarily bad that a C-level exec taking over a company knows nothing about the products/services of that company. However, in this case, he's already shown the bad judgment of taking a political puppet job, and if he is any good at what he does, rest assured meddling from the government will drive him to suicide or insanity in about a year. - Bob > -- > Stephen Russell > Sr. Production Systems Programmer > Web and Windows Development > Independent Contractor > Memphis TN > > 901.246-0159 > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ 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.
