Mary Barra has had it very easy for much of her tenure as CEO and skated by with mediocrity because she happened to take on the role at a time of historically low oil prices, record auto sales and surging consumer demand for highly profitable SUVs/Trucks.
With oil prices possibly getting ready to surge soon [[thanks to increasing geopolitical instability), a recession on the horizon and growing trade tensions, her "leadership" skills are really being put to the test.
Her recent decisions to completely forego global market share [[putting the long-term health of the company at risk), engage in mass layoffs and the way she's flubbed these UAW negotiations seems to reveal she's not the wonder woman we all thought. Instead, she seems to be quickly turning into a Roger Smith and Robert Stemple.
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