Ford and GM have spent decades as near-mirror images - they’re neighbors, they’re rivals, and they’re symbols of Detroit’s industrial DNA. But when it comes to reinventing themselves for the electric era, they’re taking radically different routes.
When Decoder host Nilay Patel sat down with GM’s new Chief Product Officer Sterling Anderson, the conversation turned to Ford’s new EV skunkworks team - a small, separate unit built to rethink vehicle development from the ground up.
Anderson’s reply summed up GM’s different approach:
“It’s the ingestion phase in Ford’s strategy where the risk lies. GM, on the other hand, has a more steady approach.”
In my latest LinkedIn Newsletter post, I explore the tension between reinvention by isolation (Ford) and reinvention by connection (GM), and why leadership - not structure - may be the deciding factor for who adapts best.
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