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Originally Posted by jamesqf
So what is this, if not exactly the Peter Principle in action. He was apparently a competent engineer, so got promoted to management. Now maybe you're so in love with this guy that you want to argue that he had absolutely no connection with GM's manifold management & production failures of that period, but I don't think that's going to fly. If he was so darned good, why did he stick with GM so long?
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+1, except where he failed was at the next level. When he was running the whole company and not just a division, he thought coke smuggling was a good financing choice. GM's good upper management (has anyone ever written that phrase before?) kept him out of trouble.