Another beans-counter with no experience “improving” a major corporation. It worked really well for Sears, didn’t it?
>> Bowing to short-term shareholder pressures ... Hackett has no experience in automobiles ... thirty years of making furniture and ... as interim athletic director at the University of Michigan.
In other words, the “swinging Dick of the quarter”. I’ve seen enough of these asses in my years on earth.
(Love my F-150 town truck, F-250 horse hauler, and the wife’s Taurus, BTW.)
Back in the Clinton years, Smith & Wesson went down the same disastrous road when it was acquired by a British organization that immediately appointed a president for S&W who knew nothing about American gun culture and negotiated a disastrous cartelizing agreement with the Clintonoids. Result: S&W’s previously loyal customers boycotted it, driving it into bankruptcy.
This guy is a nitwit who’ll put a lot of good people out of work and seriously hurt the economy.