Why overcoming 'old GM' was Dan Akerson's rallying point as General Motors CEO (Part 4 of 4)

One of the difficult things for Dan Akerson to get his arms around when he took over at General Motors as CEO was the “rallying point.” When he was at MCI, AT&T was the clear rallying point. AT&T was trying to keep MCI out of the long-distance business, so MCI needed to fight back at every turn.

It turned out that GM’s biggest adversary was itself, or — as it is often referred to in the company today — “old GM.” GM caused its own demise, so fixing it required “staring into the abyss, coming to terms with what went wrong, and getting a handle on all the things that they could control.”

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In my earlier posts based on my conversation with Dan, we talked leadership, culture, and people issues. Along with those, Dan established a focus on four pillars...

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