Recently it was announced that part of a government approved restructuring plan Chrysler would be shutting about 25% of its dealerships and cutting its advertising budget in half. I can understand cuts, but cutting the availability of a product and the advertising for a product, doesn't usually help you sell MORE of a product.
But a better question is, who in the government negotiated and 'approved' this restructuring? In fact who has been working with the car companies on all of the bailout mess? Surely this must be some super group of former car company CEOs and execs who have successfully restructured and led car companies in the past, Lee Iacocca type figures.
Evidently not.
In fact the sum total of their car experience (a couple dozen people) is about... well... zero.
But don't worry, they all OWN cars... well, okay... maybe NOT ALL OF THEM OWN cars.
That's right.
They aren't even all car OWNERS. No dealers. No designers. No automotive engineers. No automotive execs. No car people on the automotive task force.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
The Automobile Task Force
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At first, it may sound strange, but, there are other examples in history in which generally unknowledgeable people have led certain efforts. The Navy Board and Admiralty of the British Navy as well as a majority of their Captains in the 16th and 17th Century were men of noble birth who were not really professional sailors. One of Britains finest bureaucrats, Mr Pepys, who most eloquently caused the British Navy to be sorta modernized (wooden ships but still better than before) went to sea only once, and that was to escourt the new King back to England. So, maybe non auto experts could help make these types of decisions.
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