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    • Thu Jul 10th 13:28 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      General Motors: General Malaise
      I agree for the most part with the author. I also worked in the US auto industry for some years before leaving. GM should stand for General Mediocrity. Ford is the same when it comes to lack of execution. Both of these companies continue to provide great inspiration for Dilbert comic strip material. Out of all the problems and challenges they face, the worst is the bloated and mediocre middle and upper management and lack of Executive talent. You could fire up to 50% of middle management and it would probably have no negative impact on productivity. In fact, productivity may even improve since many of the bureaucratic bottlenecks would be removed. There are a lot of hard working folks in this industry but like Dilbert most are working hard on projects that add little or no value to the core business. And based on my experience, I completely disagree with the first poster who sounds like the typical 30 year veteran. GM and F still take months to years to react to market changes due to all the bureaucracy. It is virtually impossible to have anything significant approved or accomplished in weeks. Worse yet, it takes just as long to undo bad decisions that already took way too long to implement in the first place. This is why I left the industry. Out of sheer frustration. Only the airline industry is more mismanaged. Yes their products have improved but so has the competition. There is still a gap and the only people that can't seem to acknowledge that fact are the old guard that is still running the show and running the company into the ground in the process.
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