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		<title>Memo From Alfred Sloan: Heartbreak</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 15:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear General Motors; this means everyone: Executives, workers, board members, retirees, investors, dealers, suppliers, buyers of our brands.

The golden goose is dead. It shouldn’t have come to this, since the General Motors enterprise was built deliberately to be adaptable to any circumstances – to seize opportunities when times were good, and to retrench effectively when times were bad. When did you all decide that this strategic policy was no longer your responsibility?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sloaniac.wordpress.com&blog=5762913&post=167&subd=sloaniac&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Do You Say &#8220;Pumpkin&#8221; in Italian?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do we get if Fiat steps in to save Chrysler (for a zero lira investment)?
More weak brands in an overcrowded market.
Continuing resistance to the imperative need to VASTLY reduce US production capacity.
Another tragicomic chapter in three to four years.
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pontiac doesn’t really doesn’t have a job any more, and failing to realize that is what cost Rick Wagoner his. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sloaniac.wordpress.com&blog=5762913&post=124&subd=sloaniac&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Send Me to Washington! (by car) VIDEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I know as much about what's right and wrong with Detroit as the Washington Wonks.
Click to check out my YouTube video proposing that I join the Automotive Task Force overseeing the auto industry restructuring.
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		<title>FiAT CHANCE: (Death with Dignity, Part II)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there’s one thing that everyone eventually is forced to admit, it’s that you get what you pay for. So who's paying for Fiat's “free” 35% of Chrysler? And, in the desperate, show-me-the-money crash that always follows a Synergy high, will Fiat be forced to hitch a crossover behind Ferrari’s prancing horse?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sloaniac.wordpress.com&blog=5762913&post=84&subd=sloaniac&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death with Dignity: The practical history of Chrysler, and why it has reached its logical end &#8211; Part I</title>
		<link>http://sloaniac.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/death-with-dignity-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Plan? – Keep Chrysler’s culture of crisis alive with public money long enough to give it away to some other grandiose-minded sucker. And that’s a good idea because … ? <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sloaniac.wordpress.com&blog=5762913&post=68&subd=sloaniac&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Viability: Conceiving a GM strategic identity for the 21st Century</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Viability is only the first step in General Motors’ marathon to save its position as one of the world’s leading automobile manufacturers. Long-term success demands a visionary strategy implemented through forward-looking policies, which together will express a 21st Century strategic identity for General Motors.
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		<title>Bailout report: Shaking out Chrysler</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let’s face it, $4 billion for Chrysler is just about enough to wind things up in Auburn Hills.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sloaniac.wordpress.com&blog=5762913&post=44&subd=sloaniac&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ghosts of GM’s Past: Where today&#8217;s crisis began</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s ironic that the origins of GM’s 2008 Centennial Crisis lie in events the corporation’s 1958 Semicentennial year. Externally, anti-trust rulings against DuPont Company, and rumblings of action against GM itself, had contorted the governance structure that had made GM such a dynamic enterprise. Internally, a rift had long polarized GM’s New York governance and Detroit operating staffs.
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		<title>Sloan on Wagoner: 51% Hero</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Dodd blames Wagoner for GM's plight? That's tantamount to attributing Dodd with the responsiblity for the economy because George Bush's grandfather, Preston Bush once held Dodd's senate seat.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sloaniac.wordpress.com&blog=5762913&post=27&subd=sloaniac&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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