Fire the bean counters and let the engineers run the companies! That is so true. It has happened all across the United States, too, and not just in autos.
It has become less productive, a whole lot less fun and a helluva lot more useless paper and a whole helluva lot more time explaining what should be patently obvious to some dumb ass MBA or bean counter who some other dumb ass put in charge.
The only put the bean counters and MBAs in place because the engineers knew how valuable good people are an so wouldn’t let them go when some stupid fool decided to hire McKinsey or some other outfit to right size, down size or empower the company.
MBAs and bean counters are revenge by people who couldn’t get engineering degrees and didn’t like the command and control meted out by the WWII generation... poor babies.
No comment on bean counters, but the only thing greater than the conceit of an engineer is his lack of wit. See Schumpeter if you don’t believe!