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GM reportedly ordered new ignition switches months before recall
1 posted on 11/10/2014 9:16:59 AM PST by jazusamo
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Women in power just as corrupt as men. That's a milestone of sorts isn't it?

2 posted on 11/10/2014 9:28:23 AM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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...Barra is scheduled to receive the Katharine Graham Living Legacy Award on November 17 as part of your annual de Pizan Honors at The Mead Center for American Theater at Arena Stage in Washington, DC.

I don't know what the heck that is, but it's certainly a mouthful!

3 posted on 11/10/2014 9:31:56 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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I know in theory the buck stops at the CEO, but I tend to give a company like GM some slack.

In my experience, the larger the organization, the more difficult it is to alter the course. It’s a lot like an ocean liner, except you keep switching captains every couple of miles.

Part of it is the sheer size, part of it is the bureaucracy that tends to come with size, especially in a public traded company.

Unionization also plays a significant role.

It’s rare that there’s a leader - any leader, who can grab the horns of a huge organization like that and make real, transformative change. Heck, look at what Reagan was able to accomplish - and not accomplish, and how much changed back as soon as he left office.

It’s for the same reasons that the federal government has about the same level of competency. At least GM manages to spit cars out one end of the behemoth. That’s more than you can say for government.

That’s why there’s a certain inherent morality in limited government. Even with the best intentions, the best people, and the best leadership, big organizations will eventually fail at some level.

Just MHO...


5 posted on 11/10/2014 9:56:20 AM PST by chrisser (When do we get to tell the Middle East to stop clinging to their guns and religion?)
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Instead give it to a woman who has actually ACCOMPLISHED something in her life.

Like Hillary Clinton.

/SARC sarcsarcsarcsarc


6 posted on 11/10/2014 10:02:05 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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7 posted on 11/10/2014 10:09:11 AM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin)
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