Saving the US Auto Industry

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Originally Posted by classicman

When did the percentage change???

85% of all problems are directly traceable to top management. And when management says there is plenty of blame to go around, then 99% of problems are directly traceable to that manager. Any decent manager knows who is responsible. The most irresponsible (or ignorant - same thing) managers want to blame others or just call it an accident.

Meanwhile, post #188 demonstrates how much one need know to understand how anti-innovative GM has been. Whereas the Boortz video shows a ‘new’ production method, The Economist Feb 2002 articles says those manufacturing techniques were standard in both Europe and Japan even many years earlier. What the Boortz commentary forget to mention: just another example of how much innovation has so long been stifled by MBAs – or why patriotic Americans who believe in free markets have been buying foreign cars. In my inventory are so many more examples of why GM has been making so many crappy products for 30 years. Facts that get lost where fools promote ‘buy American’ or recommended GM products.

TheMercenary’s Boortz video simply forgets to mention that the innovative manufacturing techniques were being used 10 and 20 years earlier where top management are car guys. It demonstrates why GM cannot fix itself until Rick Wagoner is removed. In his case, 99% of all problems are directly traceable to … a man who did more to destroy America than Saddam Hussein.