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Mary Barra Brings Teaming to General Motors

Harvard Business Review

Passing the CEO baton to Barra tomorrow , Akerson said that she “brought order to chaos” in GM’s vast product development organization, mostly by flattening its bureaucracy and cutting overlapping layers of executives. Then-president of UAW Local 22 at the plant, George McGregor said Barra was “a people person, great to work with.”

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