The folks over at Good Magazine created an unsurprisingly clean and clear graph to put the recent bankruptcy of GM in perspective over the past two decades.  The design is a collaboration with Always With Honor and a full sized version can be found here.
[via Good Magazine]

A recent article in the New York Times gives some insight into how companies take their eye off the ball and slow down their innovation. In this piece Micheline Maynard argues that the Chrysler automotive company decided to listen more to the accountants than the staff who were tasked to drive the company into the future:
G.M.’s biggest failing, reflected in a clear pattern over recent decades, has been its inability to strike a balance between those inside the company who pushed for innovation ahead of the curve, and the finance executives who worried more about returns on investment.
The two views [...]