Irreconcilable Differences: Ross Perot Versus General Motors

by Doron P. Levin

Book Overview

This is an account of the clash between two corporate tycoons. Ross Perot founded the multibillion-dollar computer company. He was approached by General Motors in 1984 as a takeover target. He accepted the offer and was then ousted from the company in a ruthless battle.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316522112
• ISBN13: 9780316522113
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 357 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

To understand the present GM, study the past

The story of Ross Perot and GM is almost twenty years old, but it highlights much of what is wrong with GM today - a cultural simultaneously resistant to change, and a top management attempting to infuse automation from above - first in the plants, and second via Perot's EDS. The quagmire that results - organizational and process related as much as strategy and technology - is similar to the problems of GM today. Read and learn!

A good insiders book

I worked for EDS for 20 years and this book helped explain many things that we heard rumblings about but went forever unexplained - for example, when Ken Reidlinger was let go. I agree that this book is probably slanted more towards Perot's side of the story but I think it is made clear that Perot made himself much more accessible for his side of the story than the GM'ers did, so obviously that is going to be reflected in writing. As an insider, it was great to finally be able to piece together the disastrous events leading up to GM getting it's hands on EDS.