Re: [Vo]:Detroit's #1 problem: the Peter Principle

2008-02-23 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Jones, Back in the '80's, Roger was CEO of GM and drove the last vestige of sanity at GM into the ground like a tent stake. While we were sleeping an entire piece of what we knew of as America was destroyed... by economic terrorists, our real enemies. When the Dime Box saloon starts im

Re: [Vo]:Detroit's #1 problem: the Peter Principle

2008-02-17 Thread Horace Heffner
On Feb 17, 2008, at 8:16 AM, Jones Beene wrote: ... but still, all things considered, how much longer can GM keep letting their "Peters" do the talking, and make such major market miscalculations? ... all the while driving a once-excellent and dominant company into "early retirement" ? Say,

[Vo]:Detroit's #1 problem: the Peter Principle

2008-02-17 Thread Jones Beene
Even though total car sales in the US were down 5% in January, sales of hybrids climbed over 27%! Ears perk up when any market segment can make that kind of gain in a down-cycle. Although prior monthly comparative-increases for hybrids have been steady, this recent burst is now a major statistical