Wednesday, July 16, 2008

GM announcement today of a "plan to win"

Today the Chairman and CEO, Rick Wagoner basically laid out a plan which included the following:

Cut truck production (including selling Hummer)
Cut ad spending
Cut engineering budget
No white collar raises
No executive bonuses

To be frank, I cannot see a plan to cut and to take away being a "plan to win". I am certain it must be a gargantuan task to revive a company like GM, but these measures (albeit critical) cannot be the only major efforts toward success. Where is the growth? Is it all being pinned on the Chevy Volt?

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