Icons and idiots
Subtitle: straight talk on leadership
By: Bob Lutz
Publisher: Portfolio/Penguin
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781591846048
Subjects: Leadership; Management; Automobile industry and trade; Case studies
Description: The former vice chairman of General Motors profiles the leaders who made the strongest impression on him throughout his extensive career, sharing anecdotes that provide managers with leadership examples to emulate or avoid.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Georges-Andre Chevallaz; title: Staff Sargeant Donald Giusto, United States Marine Corps; title: Robert "Bob" Wachtler, Director of Forward Planning, GM Overseas Operations; title: Ralph Mason, Chairman of the Management Board, Adam Opel AG; title: Eberhard Von Kuneheim, Chairman and CEO, BMW AG; title: Philip Caldwell, Chairman and CEO Ford Motor Comany; title: Harold A. "Red" Poling, Chairman and CEO, Ford Motor Company; title: Lee Iacocca, Chairman and CEO, Chrysler Corporation; title: Robert J. "Bob" Eaton, Chairman and CEO, Chrysler Corporation; title: Arthur M. Hawkins, Chairman and CEO, Exide Technologies; title: G. Richard "Rick" Wagoner, Chairman and CEO, General Motors.