Re: [Vo]:Detroit's #1 problem: the Peter Principle

2008-02-23 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Jones, Back in the '80's, Roger was CEO of GM and drove the last vestige of sanity at GM into the ground like a tent stake. While we were sleeping an entire piece of what we knew of as America was destroyed... by economic terrorists, our real enemies. When the Dime Box saloon starts

[Vo]:Detroit's #1 problem: the Peter Principle

2008-02-17 Thread Jones Beene
Even though total car sales in the US were down 5% in January, sales of hybrids climbed over 27%! Ears perk up when any market segment can make that kind of gain in a down-cycle. Although prior monthly comparative-increases for hybrids have been steady, this recent burst is now a major

Re: [Vo]:Detroit's #1 problem: the Peter Principle

2008-02-17 Thread Horace Heffner
On Feb 17, 2008, at 8:16 AM, Jones Beene wrote: ... but still, all things considered, how much longer can GM keep letting their Peters do the talking, and make such major market miscalculations? ... all the while driving a once-excellent and dominant company into early retirement ? Say, I