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Lee Iacocca Sees Similarities Between Him and GM's Mary Barra

April 24, 2014, 11:32 AM


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Mary Barra poses with a 2011 Chevrolet Cruze/GM photo

GM's CEO Mary Barra may have taken a beating on Capitol Hill recently, but she's still got some sway on the world stage.

Time magazine includes her in the list of "The 100 Most Influential People."

Interestingly, ex-auto honcho Lee Iacocca writes the little narrative about her for Time magazine.

He writes:

In a perfect world, gender shouldn’t matter. So it’s about time someone of Mary Barra’s caliber and experience was appointed to the coveted position of General Motors CEO. I’ve never had the privilege of meeting Barra, but although we are a number of decades apart, I’ve read her background and it is much the same as mine. She grew up in a working-class family, as did I, and fell in love with cars at a very young age. She fell in love with a red Chevy Camaro convertible, and I fell in love with the Model A my dad bought.

Only time (and the pundits) will judge Barra and the kind of job she’ll do for GM, its board of directors, its employees, the dealers and, most important, the people who buy its cars. If she remains as forthcoming as I’ve seen her on television with Congress, she will enjoy a long tenure at the helm.   -- A.L. 


Read more:  Time


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