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Bravada · 10-08-2007, 02:38 PM

Nope, what Sloan did to put GM in gear back then is now hampering GM (and to and extent other stale corporations ran that way). GM just slept through as the business world moved. What Sloan did were some of the most simple things (remember he took a conglomerate that was still little short of a huge business scam cobbled together by W. Crapo Durant) - they all do work and that's how you now do things. But today, to succeed, you need much more than that - and your competitors know that!

10-08-2007, 02:38 PM	#4 (permalink)
Bravada GMI Europe Correspondent Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Warsaw, Poland Posts: 11,365	Re: General Motors' Alfred Sloan Was Driven To Succeed Nope, what Sloan did to put GM in gear back then is now hampering GM (and to and extent other stale corporations ran that way). GM just slept through as the business world moved. What Sloan did were some of the most simple things (remember he took a conglomerate that was still little short of a huge business scam cobbled together by W. Crapo Durant) - they all do work and that's how you now do things. But today, to succeed, you need much more than that - and your competitors know that!