Two blogs, have a look at their recent posts, here and here (source of the image, which of course is a simplification, arguably a cartoon). Scott, thanks for the helpful comment. "Social media" is your focus. And livelihood. Yet it is something vague, despite Wikipedia having an entry. You are invited to do a guest Crabgrass post on it if you have the time, or to send a few links to your own blogging in a comment to this post to flesh out what it is, in your own life and view, and why you feel it is a force for light rather than heat.
Riley, same thing - guest posting any time.
Scott, what I know of Mulally is from when I was in Seattle, before Boeing moved headquarters, while he was one of the chiefs, not the head chief. That is to say, very little, almost nothing.
I think Ford looked "outside of the box" to go outside of the company and its culture. I think Ford has a strong European presence, and GM without Opel and its apparent reliance on innovation to arise there, would be in real dire straits. Not that any Ford person would be expected to respond about others in the same line of commerce. That would be an out-of-step thing.
Again, there is Chomsky with a healthy dose of skepticism about markets, finance, marketing and such.
So, who are "we?"
When the government is putting near-trillions into private finance, and is looking at major industrial segments with the checkbook out, what have we bound together; and if we were into labeling, what "-ism" word might we use?
Another question, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei. The real boss and voice of Iran. What's he drive? Is there a marketing opportunity there? What's Chavez drive? Raul Castro? For that matter, Tony Blair?
George Bush? For what he's been, we should make him drive a Yugo.