Gerald Meyers
Gerald Meyers
Gerald Carl Meyers, former chairman and CEO of American Motors Corporationis an industrialist, author, lecturer, and management consultant...
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I've known Jerry a long time, and he isn't a guy who sits back, or tries to 'get along' with everybody. He's a pleasant enough fellow, but if he's unhappy about something he's going to blurt it out.
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GM's got enormous momentum of the wrong kind. It has, in decades past, been hugely successful. The culture has said, 'Whatever we've done in the past will repeat itself', but that's not working in the current environment.
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The U.S. auto industry will be much like the European industry is right now -- in a word, fragmented. Everybody will be fighting to get as much as 15% of the market. Nobody will exceed that for very long, if they get it at all.
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It's necessary now. The message has to not only be presented, it has to be accepted.