{"id":230,"date":"2005-05-06T09:23:07","date_gmt":"2005-05-06T07:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/wp_1\/index.php\/archive\/why-gms-plan-wont-work\/"},"modified":"2005-05-06T09:23:07","modified_gmt":"2005-05-06T07:23:07","slug":"why-gms-plan-wont-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2005\/05\/why-gms-plan-wont-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Why GM&#8217;s Plan Won&#8217;t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article that highlights some reasons why huge institutions, like e.g. GM, have such a hard time changing: They are attached to their (cemented) organizational structures as they are facing a changing world. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why is it so hard for those inside GM to see the inevitable? Take a step into the Detroit mindset. No active employee was even alive in 1930, the last time a rival sold more cars in the U.S. than GM. The idea of being No. 1 is <strong>etched into the company&#8217;s DNA<\/strong> &#8212; which makes it all but impossible for execs to embrace a strategy of getting smaller<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Traits that are so deeply embedded are indeed hard to change &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/05_19\/b3932001_mz001.htm\">read the article at BusinessWeek<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article that highlights some reasons why huge institutions, like e.g. GM, have such a hard time changing: They are attached to their (cemented) organizational structures as they are facing a changing world. Why is it so hard for those inside GM to see the inevitable? Take a step into the Detroit mindset. No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,8],"tags":[71,102,72,103,104,52,564],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}