When I got to GM they were using a matrix method of management which means everybody has more than one boss. I first heard about that system many years ago. It's supposed to help with collaboration, but my assessment is that it's pretty hard to get geared for action that way.

TARP is funded by taxpayers, so there are many rules about how that money can and can't be used. The result: GM spends an awful lot of time checking in with the people who administer TARP over everything from hiring to executive compensation and management. For a global company, that adds up to a lot of distraction.

I am honored to be able to serve GM at this critical juncture and take part in its reinvention.

We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated.

There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.

I'm a pretty average guy and want to keep a low profile. I don't want the world necessarily to know about me.