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11-30-2005, 04:05 PM
The Blue-Collar CEO
He arrived at Chrysler in 2000 to run manufacturing, after 23 years at GM, at GM, he became a specialist in "lean manufacturing"—operating factories with the fewest workers possible. LaSorda became a star in the early '90s by transforming an old communist car factory in the former East Germany into a model of efficiency for GM. By the end of the decade, though, his path to the top was blocked, so he jumped to Chrysler.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10216899/site/newsweek/
Makes me wish Rick had more in common with this guy.
He arrived at Chrysler in 2000 to run manufacturing, after 23 years at GM, at GM, he became a specialist in "lean manufacturing"—operating factories with the fewest workers possible. LaSorda became a star in the early '90s by transforming an old communist car factory in the former East Germany into a model of efficiency for GM. By the end of the decade, though, his path to the top was blocked, so he jumped to Chrysler.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10216899/site/newsweek/
Makes me wish Rick had more in common with this guy.