Jerry Flint Speech To GM Proving Ground Engineers and Technicians.There was an auto executive, he was a very high ranking GM man. You all know his name but I won't mention it because it might embarrass him. He's not at General Motors anymore. I once asked this man what he would do if he found himself the chief executive of General Motors. He said, and I quote, "I would fire 1,000 executives." End of quote. I'm not sure whether it made any difference to him which 1,000 executives, if he had anyone in particular in mind, or any thousand would...