and when alfred sloan and terse -- alfred sloan enters the picture the drama intensifies. billy actually hired alfred a. 1916 when he bought a company called roller bearing that he had taken charge of 15 years earlier. he hired alfred because he knew a good manager when he saw one and he also happened to know sloan was afraid his largest customer named henry ford was about to take the business in house and leave sloan high and dry with the production capacity. that was arguably the most contentious hiring decision of the 20th century. but the end of approaching from the sidelines as sloan transformed it into america's industrial icon. sloan was durant's opposite in all respects, masai say the to -- all respects, introverted, precise, methodical. they were like oil and water. they were at odds over how they were managing all of the companies he brought in to general motors. his frenetic style and failure to establish the central control drove him absolutely at the wall. in fact, sloan had actually prepared his resignation for general motives and accepted the job offer when p

i suspect that's the only loss that alfred sloan ever took in his life. the second question, how sloan would view events today. one thing i learned in the research, of all of those characters and how the world kept changing even in the 1920's and 1930's. you cannot judge a man outside of the context of his times. i think it is safe to say that sloan would be proud that general motors is still here. not many people -- not many companies have survived that long, especially when you think about the core business. i mean, general motors has basically been building one product, namely the automobile, or nearly 100 years. you didn't ask the question this way but i'll go out on a limb, maybe get myself in trouble with a few friends in the media, but i have been in trouble before. when i look at the situation today at general motors and the way it's been covered, especially here in detroit in the last few months, the parallels to 1920, in particular, are many, but sloan had the advantage of arguably taking a much worse situation than today. i mean, general motors

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