At his first meeting with General Motors' top executives after being named chairman last summer, Edward Whitacre Jr. candidly, perhaps unintentionally, issued a warning to then-CEO Fritz Henderson.
"I don't know how to be a chairman and not a CEO," a person at the meeting remembers Whitacre saying. "I'm a guy that likes to be in charge."
Six months later, the former chief executive of AT&T Inc. is running America's largest automaker after his board forced out Henderson on Dec. 1.
Despite his claims that he knows little about cars, the 68-year Texan is clearly comfortable being in charge of General Motors. In just two weeks as …
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