Topic: Rick Wagoner

Who Deserves the Credit for GM?

Andrew Ross Sorkin loves private equity.. . Sorkin finally get around to responding to Malcolm Gladwell today, and he's unimpressed. Here's how he...

Fritz Henderson

Frederick "Fritz" Henderson is the Chief Executive Officer at General Motors . He was previously the Chief Operating Officer at General Motors , but was asked to take over the position as CEO after President Obama's administration asked former CEO Rick Wagoner to ...

VIEW POINT

The article presents the author's opinion on the importance of training in areas of teamwork and leadership. He states that the training builds up trust within the team. Excerpt from Article: com/ Harvard Business School has found its reputation tarnished in ...
Washington Post elects former GM chief Rick Wagoner as director; leaves dividend unchangedThe Washington Post Co. said Thursday that Rick Wagoner, who spent 32 years at General Motors before the Obama administration forced him out of the CEO job last year, is ...

Why GM Remains Far From Finish Line

It's out of bankruptcy, sales are up, and less than a year after a government bailout, General Motors (MTLQQ. But a few speedy laps around the track don't win an endurance race, and GM still has a lot to prove ...

The Worst Predictions About 2009

To be fair, 2009 was a year that defied prediction. Who would have thought the stock market would drop like a stone until early March and then abruptly rise like a rocket? For that matter, who would have predicted Tiger Woods' ugly ...

Ford CEO Mulally says talked to GM's Whitacre

DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co < Chairman and Chief Executive Ed Whitacre.Mulally, who Ford hired away from Boeing Co < Whitacre became chairman of GM in July and was named CEO on December 1 with the resignation of CEO Fritz Henderson. "You want ...
Congratulations, surviving chief executives! Don't confuse compliance with commitment. And if that weren't enough, we recently heard about a major company that notified its employees just before Thanksgiving not to schedule appointments the following Monday because a "restructuring" was going ...

Obama to Detroit: Roll Over, Play Dead

One really has to wonder what crimes against humanity warranted Rick Wagoner's ouster from his post at General Motors. Yet for a small fraction of the money that we have already shoveled down the sewer of AIG, the executive board of ...

The Insider Succession Trap

When bad decisions force business leaders to leave their jobs, organizations often rush to replace them with insiders, who are familiar with the original problem and the former leader. General Motors pointedly replaced Rick Wagoner as its chief executive officer with his ...