General Motors Co. named Mary Barra to succeed Dan Akerson as chief executive officer, completing the GM insider’s rise from a factory-floor worker to the industry’s first female CEO after more than a century of global automaking. Barra, 51, takes over a company that has emerged from near-collapse a half decade ago, after an infusion of government cash and outside managers. Her elevation was announced a day after the U.S. government said it had sold its final shares of GM. Mary Barra has engineering background. How do you think will the company be more successful in the future? The full article is here: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-10/gm-said-to-choose-barra-as-first-female-ceo-of-automaker.html