The achievement of Carlos Ghosn is a leadership feat of great magnitude. The Japanese car manufacturing industry is well known because of its efficiency and production technology. Imagine a Brazilian Frenchman from a European car manufacturer, turning around a renowned but failing Japanese automobile corporation!
Who is Carlos Ghosn?
Carlos Ghosn’s parents where Brazilians with their roots in Lebanon. He was born in Brazil on March 9, 1954. When he was 6 years old he moved to Beirut with his mother, where he completed his secondary school education in a French Jesuit school (College Notre Dame de Jambour). He then went to France and being excellent in math, won admission to one of the prestigious French institutes for higher education, …