When management changes were announced at General Motors earlier this month, most people focused on the firing of CEO Fritz Henderson and his replacement by Chairman Ed Whitacre. The more significant moves, however, were those that took place afterwards when Whitacre promoted a number of younger managers (including two women) to key positions. Taken together, these shifts (with more to come) sent a strong message to everyone in GM that it was time for fundamentally new perspectives and faster decisions.
\nBut why did it take a virtual purge for GM’s executives to realize that it was time for change? Wasn’t bankruptcy, a federal bailout, a near-death experience, and international embarrassment enough of a wake up call? Didn’t former CEO Henderson and his team understand the urgency for turning around GM?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Skulle du vilja eller beh\u00f6va\u00a0men inte v\u00e5ga ge dig sj\u00e4lv sparken? Inledningen av en\u00a0artikel\u00a0h\u00e4mtad fr\u00e5n\u00a0Harvard Business Review av\u00a0Ron Ashkenas\u00a0\u00a0Partner i\u00a0Robert H. Schaffer & Associates a Stamford, Connecticut.\u00a0http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/cs\/2009\/12\/why_you_should_fire_yourself.html When management changes were announced at General Motors earlier this month, most people focused on the firing of CEO Fritz Henderson and his replacement by Chairman Ed Whitacre. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kivikas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kivikas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kivikas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kivikas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kivikas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/kivikas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"https:\/\/kivikas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kivikas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kivikas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kivikas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}