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Could Executive Changes At GM Hurt The Company?

Detroit News columnist Daniel Howes says stability suffers when a company gets four new CEOs in less than two years. "Top management keeps changing, the vision for the company changes," he writes, pointing out that last week CEO Dan Akerson moved long-timer Tom Stephens up to chief tech officer and gave product development to Mary Barra.

Howes says Barra, the former assistant to chairman Jack Smith, had better have the right stuff for the job. He argues that if GM loses its momentum in product development "That carried it into bankruptcy and is now driving it out," the bailout will "morph from a developing success story into a tale of outsiders who didn't really understand that more than a few people from the old GM know what they're doing."

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