Texan Ross Perot, during his brief stint on General Motors Corp.'s board of directors, once described the automaker as "isolated and insulated" from the American driving public.
Nearly two decades later, amid a massive overhaul at the world's largest automaker, signs are starting to emerge that GM is shedding that top-down, out-of-touch style of management.
Jolted into action by unprecedented market share declines and billions of dollars in losses, GM is taking a more fluid and open approach to doing business in an industry it once ruled.
Twenty-something hipsters in the company are getting called on to help make critical decisions.
Design teams have new freedom to whip up vehicles with no advance approval from the top.
And, in a first for GM, the public could have final say in picking a new vehicle to be sold around the world.
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