TW put on notice by GM

[Undertoad]

Guess who wrote a book called "Car Guys vs Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business"?

Former GM vice chairman Bob Lutz.

Will GM and the Volt turn out to be the heroes? As much as the company is annoying, that would be a nice turnaround wouldn't it?

http://blogs.motortrend.com/bob-lutz...ure-14747.html

Bold mine for TW:

Car Guys vs Bean Counters is mostly a blistering attack on the numbers-driven management culture that blights many American corporations, and for which pre-bankruptcy GM was perhaps the ultimate poster child.
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Lutz, who opens the book with an account of how Ford of Europe’s finance department pointed out fixing a problem with camshafts failing shortly after the 12,000-mile warranty expired would result in a $50 million hole in the company’s profit forecast because Parts and Service would no longer be able to sell replacement camshafts to customers, savages America’s business schools: “The big business schools should be asking how and why it all went wrong. They have produced generations of number-crunching, alternate-scenario-loving, spreadsheet-addicted idiot-savants. They should be ashamed.”

Preach it brother!