#15 – Corvette Barely Survives
In the 1990’s Russ Mclean was selected as a manager of the Corvette platform. He had a reputation at GM for fixing quality/cost issues. With GM suffering through financial difficulties, Mclean decided to isolate the Corvette team making them independent of the GM structure. Despite the approval to develop the C5 Corvette, GM wanted to end the Corvette program. Mclean kept that news only to select few and continued working on the C5. He left Corvette team in 1996, but the success of the 5th generation justified the rebellious efforts.