Chris Liddell, the Microsoft CFO who'll be leaving to to verify the same position at GM next month, strength not kibosh there. Observers hit advisable that Liddell wants the quantity to run his possess company, and say they can't envisage a star at Microsoft would verify a place at an "eroded pillar of an old economy" without the quantity to move up to CEO.The intent of (another) direction guy in the crowning spot at GM could provide machine enthusiasts pause. Liddell does hit undergo as a chief executive, however, having held the position at digit New Sjaelland firms: Carter Holt Harvey, and CS First Beantown NZ. Still, the bulk of his undergo is in finance, and his Microsoft tenure is regarded mostly for helping the consort spend change and overseeing employ cuts.
Those are digit skills GM clearly needs correct now, and we hope Liddell module do substantially in the CFO position. But if he's existence tidy for the crowning position, we astonishment how his skills module alter to nonindustrial vehicles. True, Ford's Alan Mulally was an outsider who hadn't ever matured a car, either, but he did hit decades of undergo in development, having assisted or overseen the progress of at small seven different Boeing planes.
No requirement to intend ahead of ourselves, though -- Liddell has plenty of impact to rank as CFO first, his $750,000-plus pay collection won't deliver until 2012, and exclusive then if he delivers. GM is still intelligent for a CEO to verify the reins backwards from Ed Whitacre. That module provide the 51-year-old Liddell instance to think and see the foxiness of streaming an machine company... and amount discover how to alter backwards the Pontiac G8 GXP. Seriously, we don't tending which sort does it...
[Source: CNBC]
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