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Whats happening at Holden that we don't know?
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Football, meatpies and revolving door management.
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Lease ran out on his c63 and he realised he had to actually drive a Holden supplied car.
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Shouldnt a captain always stay aboard a sinking ship?
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Perhaps this was Whincups fault (Bathurst).
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Perhaps Holden is the Oz auto version of the Costa Concordia.....
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He should have been fired the minute he said he thinks Holden will be no 1 by 2020. Quite possibly the dumbest thing ever said by an automotive industry exec.
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I feel sorry for the Oz mangers of Ford. Holden and Toyota. I know what is like to run an organisation that is scheduled for wind down; suddenly all your colleagues elsewhere ignore what you have to say and what you want to achieve as their view is in a few years that division will be gone won't it so you are irrelevant. Takes good management further up to make sure this doesn't happen and that there is a motivating reward awaiting you at the end. It's also very difficult to keep your staff positive and motivated. And your dealers and suppliers will not be exactly loving you.
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Big deal. He obviously snapped up a better opportunity elsewhere. Anyone worth their salt would do the same.
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If it ain't broke........
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And another one gone, another one gone, another one bites the dust...........
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If they keep leaving the problems run deeper, look to the people the CEO answers to.
The mystical "board", I've never laid eyes on such mystical beast myself but I've heard plenty of horror stories from management that "THE BOARD IS NOT HAPPY!". That "the board" is why we couldn't have nice things. If the man at the top keeps heading for the hills, something must be up. |
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Who on earth would look at that situation and say....I gotta get that on my cv! Wow, I mean he was only there 6 months right? Why on earth would you take on such a big role....then bail so quickly. But not just one guy.....heaps of them.
Be interesting to see what they're all running from when it comes out eventually! But I'm sure it's nothing tho. ![]() |
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Obviously Bill Osborne saw the writing on the wall back in 08 when he left Ford after 6 months.
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Seems to me like the local bloke has very little say in what goes on anyway.
A company with this many management changes in such short spaces of time can not simply be 'riding' the success of the predecessor. |
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If you read the article you’ll see the statement made is corporate speak for ‘he was sacked’.
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Everything I have read so far say's he resigned to take up another job somewhere else.
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does anyone really think that Holden will over take Toyota in 2020 the way Holden is going at the moment?? I know what I am about to say here is going to **** the Holden fans off but once Holden has stopped manufacturing, 2020 will more then likely be the year the Holden name disappears
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If they said he was getting moved to China and the guy from over there was coming here then I would agree with you.
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This terminology is often understood as ‘sacked’. Any way I won’t get too concerned either way, he’s probably got a healthy bank balance and good qualifications to fall back on. |
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Also can mean that when he told senior management that he was leaving to work elsewhere, that they paid him out and walked him immediately. Very normal these days.
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Yep, and he is only human, not hard to realise that some people are always on the look out for other opportunities. For all we know, he might have just used Holden as a stop-gap until something else came up. But it gives journalists the chance to stick the knives in further and remind everyone about the impending closures...
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It's only a matter of time before the Holden name is dead. Anyway if you were a Holden person would you really want to be driving who knows what with a badge stuck on it? At least we can say a Ford is a Ford.
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Some even stick chevy badges on there "holdens"...
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Like a crappy thai or chinese built ford is still a ford. |
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I’ve worked in companies where when you resign you can’t go back to your office. Your passwords are deleted on the spot, your office door is locked and your personal effects are gathered by HR and forwarded to your home address. Still in most cases it’s the polite way of telling other staff and the media of a sacking. And given the type of industry it is, he isn't likely to be taking company clients with him and health reason have not be used, therefore immediate departure on resignation is a little unusual. Anyway Í don't know, it was just a comment I made based on my experience. |
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