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02-01-2011, 04:34 PM
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When President Obama tapped General Electric chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt to be his top outside economic adviser, my first reaction was: Really?
Maybe I'm partial to the auto industry, the industry I follow the closest, but my next reaction was: Was Ford (http://autoblog.com/make/ford) CEO Alan Mulally's line busy? His email down?
Immelt took over for legendary CEO Jack Welch in 2001. And I've never been aware of a huge fan club for Immelt as a great CEO. According to published reports, though, he is very socially and politically connected, and has visited the White House some 16 times since Obama took office.
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When President Obama tapped General Electric chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt to be his top outside economic adviser, my first reaction was: Really?
Maybe I'm partial to the auto industry, the industry I follow the closest, but my next reaction was: Was Ford (http://autoblog.com/make/ford) CEO Alan Mulally's line busy? His email down?
Immelt took over for legendary CEO Jack Welch in 2001. And I've never been aware of a huge fan club for Immelt as a great CEO. According to published reports, though, he is very socially and politically connected, and has visited the White House some 16 times since Obama took office.
Continue Reading... (http://www.autoblog.com/2011/02/01/opinion-obama-should-have-tapped-fords-mulally-for-adviser-rol/#continued)
Continue reading [I]Opinion: Obama should have tapped Ford's Mulally for adviser role, not Immelt (http://www.autoblog.com/2011/02/01/opinion-obama-should-have-tapped-fords-mulally-for-adviser-rol/)
Opinion: Obama should have tapped Ford's Mulally for adviser role, not Immelt (http://www.autoblog.com/2011/02/01/opinion-obama-should-have-tapped-fords-mulally-for-adviser-rol/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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