GEE WHIZ - Alfred Sloan lasted 40 years .....

[SpiderGearsMan]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- General Motors is getting its fourth CEO in just under 18 months, as the company announced that Ed Whitacre will leave the post Sept. 1, to be succeeded by another auto industry outsider, former Nextel Communications CEO Dan Akerson.

[Brian Lohnes]

Re: GEE WHIZ - Alfred Sloan lasted 40 years .....

Consistency of leadership is really important to a company's success. :D

[dieselgeek]

Re: GEE WHIZ - Alfred Sloan lasted 40 years .....

Consistency of leadership is really important to a company's success. :D

Yeah, but it's clear that the "Outsiders" do a heluva better job running the company than any of the "Insiders" did. I don't care how awesome we think some of the former GM CEOs were - bottom line, they SUCK OUT LOUD at running an actual business.

[Brian Lohnes]

Re: GEE WHIZ - Alfred Sloan lasted 40 years .....

Tough to argue that point.

[CDMBill]

Re: GEE WHIZ - Alfred Sloan lasted 40 years .....

Which makes the former Nextel guy a bit of a question mark as they haven't exactly set the world on fire for the last several years including his tenure. With both Ford and GM returning to profitability it will be interesting to see see if the return to business as usual and slide back down into cyclic feast and famine.

[SpiderGearsMan]

Re: GEE WHIZ - Alfred Sloan lasted 40 years .....

Consistency of leadership is really important to a company's success. :D

Yeah, but it's clear that the "Outsiders" do a heluva better job running the company than any of the "Insiders" did. I don't care how awesome we think some of the former GM CEOs were - bottom line, they SUCK OUT LOUD at running an actual business.

john smith was damn good
google it

[SpiderGearsMan]

Re: GEE WHIZ - Alfred Sloan lasted 40 years .....

too bad GM was seized at the nick of time
to kill the hydrogen car

[dieselgeek]

Re: GEE WHIZ - Alfred Sloan lasted 40 years .....

too bad GM was seized at the nick of time
to kill the hydrogen car

seized? are you serious?

Sure, like a drunken sailor falls overboard and is "seized" from the ocean, perhaps.

[IRONHEAD]

Re: GEE WHIZ - Alfred Sloan lasted 40 years .....

Consistency of leadership is really important to a company's success. :D

Yeah, but it's clear that the "Outsiders" do a heluva better job running the company than any of the "Insiders" did. I don't care how awesome we think some of the former GM CEOs were - bottom line, they SUCK OUT LOUD at running an actual business.

yup has nothing to do with all the reg's we the people force on American biz. that off shore don't have...
"think green" :-\ >

[dieselgeek]

Re: GEE WHIZ - Alfred Sloan lasted 40 years .....

Consistency of leadership is really important to a company's success. :D

Yeah, but it's clear that the "Outsiders" do a heluva better job running the company than any of the "Insiders" did. I don't care how awesome we think some of the former GM CEOs were - bottom line, they SUCK OUT LOUD at running an actual business.

yup has nothing to do with all the reg's we the people force on American biz. that off shore don't have...
"think green" :-\ >

The more wisdom I read on the internet - the more I realize that the only REAL problem with America is: EDUCATION

[TheSilverBuick]

Re: GEE WHIZ - Alfred Sloan lasted 40 years .....

me educmucation es poifect, yous aintest thee smrter must peple hear!!!! ;D :P

[horsewidower]

Re: GEE WHIZ - Alfred Sloan lasted 40 years .....

:D :D ;D

[IRONHEAD]

Re: GEE WHIZ - Alfred Sloan lasted 40 years .....

Consistency of leadership is really important to a company's success. :D

Yeah, but it's clear that the "Outsiders" do a heluva better job running the company than any of the "Insiders" did. I don't care how awesome we think some of the former GM CEOs were - bottom line, they SUCK OUT LOUD at running an actual business.

yup has nothing to do with all the reg's we the people force on American biz. that off shore don't have...
"think green" :-\ >

The more wisdom I read on the internet - the more I realize that the only REAL problem with America is: EDUCATION

then you better read up on the international trade..
and the regs here and the ones not everywhere else..
wake up..

[Matt Cramer]

Re: GEE WHIZ - Alfred Sloan lasted 40 years .....

Which makes the former Nextel guy a bit of a question mark as they haven't exactly set the world on fire for the last several years including his tenure. With both Ford and GM returning to profitability it will be interesting to see see if the return to business as usual and slide back down into cyclic feast and famine.

It could be worse - they could have picked a Sprint CEO and had their dealerships all adapt Sprint's brand of "customer service."