Jerry Flint, of Forbes.com writes that he knows who the next CEO of GM should be:
...Does GM ( GM - news - people ) need another man born and raised at the Harvard Business School, who can read a balance sheet upside down and uses first names with bankers?
Is handling all that taxpayer money the big problem? Is the problem one they teach at the M.B.A. schools--Harvard, Michigan or Stanford? Does it need a man who has proved himself buying and selling companies and managing growth on the Internet, cellphones and a hedge fund?
No.
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It is Robert Lutz, the only man for the job. Will he get it?
Doubtful. He is too outspoken, he's too colorful (an ex-Marine pilot who still races cars around the track at top seed and flies a fighter jet and a helicopter) and most of all, he's too old...Continue reading on Forbes.com >>
