High Overhead Can Warp any Organization
- DATE: January 31, 2014
- POSTED BY: Jim McCarthy
What nearly killed General Motors was not so much the core business of producing decent cars and selling them profitably. They did that OK. (Not great, but OK.) What nearly killed them was that in addition to all that, they had legacy and overhead that dwarfed the rest of the operation. At one point, nearly one million people were due a pension from General Motors at a time when they employed more like 100,000. I remember someone calling them “a …
