Rick Wagoner
Rick Wagoner
George Richard "Rick" Wagoner, Jr.is an American businessman and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors. Wagoner resigned as Chairman and CEO at General Motors on March 29, 2009, at the request of the White House. The latter part of Wagoner's tenure as CEO of General Motors found him under heavy criticism as the market valuation of GM went down by more than 90% and the company lost more than $82 billion USD. This led to his being...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth9 February 1953
CountryUnited States of America
I was willing to go just about anywhere in the U.S. for the best job - except New York City. Of course, I received a job offer from GM - in New York City.
Stan O'Neal has been a great asset on the GM Board and to General Motors management over his 5 years of service as a director. We are grateful for his many positive contributions to General Motors and wish him the best.
We no longer take it for granted that we can't be the most productive manufacturer. That's the way it used to be in the 1950s and l960s. We need to get back to that, as one element of a strong position in this excess capacity world that we're going to be in.
That's because a couple products represent a larger percentage of the total at Chrysler than at GM. That can be an advantage and a curse, in terms of sales going up or down based on the results of a couple cars.
Most of the model consolidation we've done is behind us. There will be some fine tuning.
Whoever is ahead in this area can get a big advantage versus the other guys. Just being big isn't enough. We really want to pick up the pace in everything we do in the company.
Jerry brings years of business experience and knowledge of the automotive industry to the GM board. We are pleased to welcome him to our Board.
I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand.
Over the last nine months we have been aggressively implementing our North American turnaround plan.
I think we'll probably pass Toyota in the U.S. on the workers-per-vehicle metric.
You can buy another product; this is a free country. But if you do, you're paying more than you need to.
will reduce the impact of plan changes on affected individuals.
We hope it eases up, but I can't obviously tell you've we've seen a lot of evidence of that,
We have to offer products people want to buy, not have to buy,