GM CEO Mary Barra, who was handed the keys to General Motors kingdom right before a corporate-like tsunami hit, makes the cover of Time magazine's upcoming Oct. 6 issue.
The cover shows Barra standing humbly with the words "The Mechanic" imposed over her picture.
"Recalling 30 Million cars is only the beginning," the words say on the cover. "CEO Mary Barra's plan to fix General Motors."
The website, which is a paid subscription site, writes:
GM CEO Mary Barra was, appropriately enough, in her car when she heard the news that the company she’d been appointed to run two weeks prior was about to suffer the worst U.S. product-safety crisis in recent memory.
It was at the end of a cold day in January, and her chauffeur-driven Cadillac Escalade was taking her home from the company’s headquarters in downtown Detroit when one of her lieutenants, product-development head Mark Reuss, rang with some very bad news. It was about the ignition-switch problem that would eventually lead to the recall of 2.6 million GM cars.
“He said he’d just learned we had this problem with the vehicles and that we had to do a recall, and that…"
