Why GM’s Plan Won’t Work
An interesting article that highlights some reasons why huge institutions, like e.g. GM, have such a hard time changing: They are attached to their (cemented) organizational structures as they are facing a changing world.
Why is it so hard for those inside GM to see the inevitable? Take a step into the Detroit mindset. No active employee was even alive in 1930, the last time a rival sold more cars in the U.S. than GM. The idea of being No. 1 is etched into the company’s DNA — which makes it all but impossible for execs to embrace a strategy of getting smaller
Traits that are so deeply embedded are indeed hard to change …
