The CEO's Challenge

摘要

Early one morning around Christmastime, Rick Wagoner was running on the treadmill in his suburban Detroit home, flipping TV channels. Way up the cable dial he came across an old movie he'd never seen: "Roger & Me." In the 1989 documentary, the angry populist filmmaker Michael Moore pursues General Motors' chairman, Roger Smith, attempting to lambaste him for laying off workers. Wagoner, GM's current CEO, was working overseas when the film came out; he'd never seen it. So he jogged along, watching as Moore torments one of his predecessors. Wagoner stopped running before the ending, but he'd seen enough to give his own blurb-worthy review: "Glad it wasn't me."