'Innovator' leads GM unit
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R.G. "Skip" LeFauve was appointed president of the Detroit-based university Monday, effective April 1. LeFauve has been with Saturn almost since its start more than a decade ago as GM's small-car company.
The university was created last year as part of Chairman Jack Smith's plan to transform GM into a leaner, more competitive and innovative global automotive company. It will train and groom GM's future leaders.
LeFauve's experience creating a new company with a customer-focused corporate culture, which at the time differed radically from that of its parent, figured in his selection as university president.
The university's goals include making GM leaders "more learning and less knowing" - to get away from the traditional top-down management style in which executives pretended they knew all and didn't need to listen to anyone else's ideas, said Donald E. Hackworth, a GM vice president.
