Here’s an article chronicling the failures of leadership by Barack Obama and Dan Akerson, GM’s CEO, in their “success” in turning the former automotive powerhouse around.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/louiswoodhill/2012/08/15/general-motors-is-headed-for-bankruptcy-again/
Their lesson is one that far too many “leaders” today need to learn: being smug, all-knowing, ridiculously entitled, arrogant, condescending, and out of touch while consistently delivering nothing but incompetence and failure is not leadership.