Bosses nearly killed GM

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Soon after becoming CEO in December 2009, Whitacre spent an hour talking to one very senior executive who tried to "explain to me what he did at GM. And the more he talked, the more nebulous his job sounded. By the time he finished, I came away feeling that this guy really didn't have anything to do," Whitacre wrote. "Most troubling to me, none of this seemed to bother him, or even occur to him."

Whitacre - The Detroit News