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John Smith

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Nonfiction, Business, Memoir

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John Smith, a native of Kansas City, Missouri, enjoyed a forty-two year career with General Motors, beginning in 1968 when he started work at the Chevrolet-Kansas City assembly plant. For someone just a few days removed from high school graduation, the rigors of life on the line in an automobile assembly plant. . .even if only for the summer. . .provided John with important grounding for everything that followed.

After receiving an Industrial Engineering degree from General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) and an MBA from Harvard, John joined GM’s New York Treasurer’s Office in 1976. This group provided key staff support to the company’s top leade Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

John Smith, a native of Kansas City, Missouri, enjoyed a forty-two year career with General Motors, beginning in 1968 when he started work at the Chevrolet-Kansas City assembly plant. For someone just a few days removed from high school graduation, the rigors of life on the line in an automobile assembly plant. . .even if only for the summer. . .provided John with important grounding for everything that followed.

After receiving an Industrial Engineering degree from General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) and an MBA from Harvard, John joined GM’s New York Treasurer’s Office in 1976. This group provided key staff support to the company’s top leaders and its Board of Directors, and offered John a top-down view of GM’s breadth and depth. Over the following years, John would lead GM’s joint venture vehicle programs with Toyota, Isuzu, Suzuki and Daewoo, help establish GM operations in Central Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and be part of the team that developed options for the company’s all-important China business. John would later serve as GM’s first global product planning leader, and be on the ground floor of many of the company’s alternative propulsion initiatives.

Prior to coming to Cadillac in early 1997, John was President of Allison Transmission following the collapse of a possible sale of that business in late 1993 to German car parts maker ZF. John and team developed and executed a turnaround plan for Allison that lead to a twenty-fold increase in its sale price a decade later. John retired from GM at the end of 2010 and has since served as consultant or company director for a number of public and private for-profit businesses. He and his wife Nancy have been involved in ongoing relief and social services work in Haiti since the devastating earthquake of 2010, principally in and around the city of Jeremie, in support of which they co-founded a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization named Jeremie Rising. All proceeds from the sale of Fin Tales will be contributed to Jeremie Rising. ...more

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	Psikopat by John Smith, Melek Golden (Translator) 2.82 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 38 by John Smith, John Wagner, Alan Grant 3.87 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Via Ferratas of the Italian Dolomites: North, Central and East 4.50 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Booked!: The Gospel According to our Football Heroes by John Smith, Dan Trelfer (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Storming Heaven: The Frazer Irving Collection (2000 Ad) by John Smith, Gordon Rennie, Steve Moore 3.30 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hugs to Encourage and Inspire: Stories, Sayings, and Scriptures to Encourage and Inspire (Hugs Series) by John Smith, LeAnn Weiss 3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1997 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Benny Hill story by John Smith, Bob Hope (Foreword) 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Living Off The Grid: A Guide To Surviving Without The System 2.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Second Yellow: More Adventures of our Footballing Heroes by John Smith, Dan Trelfer (Goodreads Author) 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Archery: Archery For Beginners 3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Lonely people have cruel thoughts.”
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“They took him inside, where it was warm, and then they fed him, taking care to follow every detail of the instructions they had received from the Army, into an enormous machine.”
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