Professor Elam

"It is not necessary to change. Your survival is not mandatory." – W. Edwards Deming

I found that Deming quote at Jesse's Cafe and it certainly describes GM today. 

Fritz Henderson is out as CEO at GM. AS one observer remarked, it is not a good time to be an insider at GM, this is the time for an outsider. 

As the article says the bankruptcy for years. There is an old expression in financial circles, 

it's as though they were re arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic (thinking that would avoid the iceberg)

I frankly doubt changing faces at the top will drive more people to GM showrooms. And the truth is that we have more automakers than we need as America moves from buying 16 M to 10N vehicles a year. 

Changing people will not change these realities.