Bulldozer00's Blog

In a followup to my first post on GM’s initial BS attempt to dismantle their horrendous do-nothing-but-line-management’s-pocket-with-dough Command And Control Hierarchy (CCH), I submit this freshly minted  AP article. It describes yet another management shake up at post-bankruptcy, taxpayer-money-sucking GM. The “new” (LOL!) leadership continues to pray that the feeble and well worn tradition of sloganeering and cajoling will stave off annihilation. Geeze, these elite hierarchs are really doing quite a job earning their seven figure paychecks, dontcha think?

In announcing a sudden management overhaul yesterday, GM chairman and acting CEO Ed Whitacre Jr. was speaking Lutz’s words when he told employees that the bureaucracy needs to end and they can take reasonable risks without fear of being fired.

“We want you to step up. We don’t want any bureaucracy,’’ Whitacre said to about 800 GM workers. “We’re not going to make it if you won’t take a risk,’’ he said in the address, which was broadcast to employees worldwide on the Internet.

Uh, yes massa CEO, we’ll do whatever you say, dear leader. We sincerely believe that you’re a man of high integrity and impeccable credentials who speaks the truth and will lead us to the promised land. We’ll gladly storm the machine gun nests that guard the status quo for you. Blech.

Whitacre, 68, who has been frustrated with the pace of change, appointed the 77-year-old Lutz as a top adviser, creating an alliance of hard-charging veteran executives to lead the troubled company.

Yeah, that’ll do it. A 145 year duo of machine age, assembly line thinkers who probably don’t know WTF “WTF” means. Social intra-networking? Corpo-wide sharing of accessible and findable information? Sincere collaboration within and between layers of rank and status? Transparency, Authenticity, and Openness?  Sorry to be so negative, but not a chance.

Sadly, I await the next big GM makeover and press release.