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• he also believed the enterprise was threatened by the leadership failings of its visionary founder, who also happened to…
• They were opposites in all respects. William C. (Billy) Durant, the high school dropout, was the flamboyant dreamer and gambler, focused on personal relationships and risk. Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., the MIT engineer, was the stern organizer and manager, focused on data and logic (not to mention profit).
• Billy managed to create General Motors in bold defiance of the industrial and financial powers of his day. Alfred went on to transform it into the largest and most successful enterprise the world had ever seen.
• Billy was done in by his own wizardry in expanding his empire through financial…
• Alfred mastered both the art of corporate vision and the science of…