通用汽车公司现任总裁约翰·史密斯是搞财务出身的,这种背景正好符合通用公司对总裁的要求。然而公司创始人威廉·克拉波·杜兰特却没有搞过财务,有人认为这正是问题之所在。 1908年当杜兰特先生成功地将别克轿车公司与奥兹莫比尔以及若干其它较小的财务上困难重重的公司合并为通用汽车公司之时,他既是一个幻想家又象一个企业家,而且是 GM’s current president, John Smith, is a financial backgrounder, and this background is exactly in line with GM’s president’s requirements. However, the founder of the company, William Krabbo Durant, has not conducted any financial affairs. Some people think that this is the problem. When Mr. Durant succeeded in merging Buick Car Corporation with Oldsmobile and several other smaller financially difficult companies into General Motors in 1908, he was both a visionary and an entrepreneur, and Yes