The Forgotten Lessons of Lee Iacocca
Paul A. Eisenstein is a veteran journalist who has won numerous awards for his work during 30 years covering the automotive industry. He is founder and editor of TheDetroitBureau.com, an online magazine serving as the voice of the auto industry. His work also appears in a variety of print, online and broadcast outlets that include: The Economist, Agence France Presse, NPR, Motor Trend, Cigar Aficionado, Japan's Diamond Weekly, Germany's Auto Motor und Sport, and many others.
Nearly 30 years ago, Lee Iacocca rescued Chrysler from near implosion. As GM and Chrysler fight for survival, Paul A. Eisenstein asks: Why doesn't the industry ever learn from its mistakes?
The Witch Hunt Backlash Is Coming
Eric Dezenhall co-founded the communications firm Dezenhall Resources, Ltd., and serves as its CEO. His first book, Nail 'em!: Confronting High-Profile Attacks on Celebrities and Business, pioneered techniques for understanding and defusing crises.
A backlash is inevitable when populist outrage goes too far and begins to target people powerful enough to push back.
5 Reasons Celebrity CEOs Crash & Burn
In a volatile economy, how can respected corporate chieftains avoid becoming villains overnight? Media strategist Judy Smith breaks down the tricks of successful CEOs-including never agree to an interview that focuses on your personal success.
Congress wants a 'car czar' to oversee $15 billion in emergency loan bailout. But does anyone outside of Washington think one man can force a turnaround of a deeply-troubled business culture? It won't be an easy job. Favorite Paul Volcker has powerful support-but The Daily Beast's top pick for the job is Roger Penske, the race car driver turned billionaire.
Lousy Marketing—Not Lousy Cars—Killed Detroit
Adam Hanft is a decoder of the consumer culture and our branded planet. He blogs for The Huffington Post and FastCompany.com. He is also the co-author of Dictionary of the Future and is founder and CEO of the marketing and branding firm Hanft Raboy. Follow him at Twitter.com/hanft.
Long before the CEOs of the Big Three hopped aboard their private jets, they presided over the biggest marketing failure in American history.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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