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...taking a page from the American book on spending, since they appear less interested in saving and more willing to take on debt to indulge themselves. Despite having lower incomes, Chengdu ranks among China's three largest cities in the number of privately owned cars clogging the roads. GM's sales in Chengdu grew about 40% in 2006, twice that of Beijing. Zhao Jinhui, vice president of Chengdu-based Eastern Kingo Auto Group, a large Chevy dealer in China, says that 22% of his customers finance their purchases, compared with only 5% nationally. "In Beijing, when they get rich, they...
...Smith fired back with some broadsides of his own. Perot's office, he complained to the Detroit Free Press, "makes mine look like a shanty-town. He has a Gilbert Stuart painting hanging on the wall." Said Smith: "[Perot] is a different type of guy than we are in GM. He is very independent. He is the type of guy that would saddle up his horse and ride to Iran to rescue people...
Some industry experts thought that Smith was justified in driving Perot away. Said Bernard Addo, an auto analyst for Manhattan's Argus Research: Perot may have been a skillful entrepreneur, but entrepreneurship and team management are two different things. Perot was hurting GM's stock by publicly bashing the company's management." Other observers were appalled at the buyout. GM officials got rid of Perot, contended Mary Anne Devanna, director of research at the Columbia Business School Management Institute, "to protect their own hides. Their careers, big bonuses and fancy perks all depend on maintaining the status quo. GM...
...GM may not have heard the last of Perot. Although Lester Alberthal Jr., the president of EDS, has now been named the new chief executive to run that company, Perot will stay on with the title of founder. He intends to keep an office in Dallas and an eye on things. "I'll be here as long as they need me," said Perot. GM may fear that if it shoved Perot completely out the door, many important EDS executives would follow...
...longer, though, will Perot sit on GM's board and offer suggestions on how to manufacture cars more efficiently in the high-tech age. With or without Perot, the biggest challenge facing Roger Smith remains the same: to prove that he can turn around GM's sagging fortunes...