American Turnaround

Reinventing AT&T and GM and the Way We Do Business in the USA

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By Edward Whitacre

With Leslie Cauley

Read by Edward Whitacre

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Ed Whitacre is credited with taking over the corporate reins at General Motors (GM) when the automotive manufacturer was on the brink of bankruptcy during 2009 and turned the company around in magnificent fashion. In this business memoir, the native Texan explores his unique management style, business acumen and patriotism.

It was President Obama who reached out to Ed Whitacre to come out of retirement and take over GM in 2009. A down-to-earth, no-nonsense Texas native with a distinctive Texas twang in his voice, Whitacre was reluctant to come out of retirement to work at GM.

But Whitacre is that rare CEO with great charisma and extraordinary management instincts. And when he got to Detroit, he started to whittle down the corporate bureaucracy right away – and got GM back on track in record time.

Before being pulled out of retirement to run GM by Obama, Ed Whitacre had spent his entire corporate career in the telecom business, where he ultimately ended up running AT&T.

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On Sale
Feb 5, 2013
Publisher
Hachette Audio
ISBN-13
9781611134957

Edward Whitacre

About the Author

Edward Whitacre is the former CEO of General Motors. He has a background in telecommunications, running AT&T, but came out of retirement to save GM.

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