So what do you do if you happen to be Global Vice President of General Motors Design and a blogger calls your company out for lacking a modern sense of design? Well, if your name happens to be Ed Welburn, you respond with an open letter of your own.
After Huffington Post writer Gerald Sindell wrote an open letter to new GM CEO Fritz Henderson suggesting that a new design direction should be Job 1 for the reinvention of GM, Welburn felt compelled to respond. As you might imagine, the response is a rather passionate one. So what did Welburn have to say to Sindell?
Believe me, Ed is a much better man than me. I would have opened a can for sure.
"Older white guys wearing suits to the office in Detroit, except for one woman and one black guy."
That "one black guy" happens to be Mr. Welburn, who in his response suggests that Sindell might be a little out of touch
What an amazing statement to have be said in a public forum.
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