On this episode of Leader's Playbook, Inside General Motors, the best-selling automaker in the U.S., manufacturing iconic brands including Chevrolet, GMC, Cadillac, and Buick.

It couldn't be more proud of the product portfolio.

Meet the leader, driving the more than 115-year-old company into its high-tech future.

My goal is to make sure General Motors is here another hundred years from now.

Her plan to build a future-ready company by embracing accelerating technology.

We recognize that we needed much more software talent, so we went to Silicon Valley.

The strategies that helped this leader power through crises.

Our superpower is agility.

And strengthen the company's culture.

When's the best time to solve a problem?

The minute you know you have one.

Plus, the CEO's remarkable journey to the C-suite.

Never in a million years that I think I would rise to the CEO role.

Leaders' playbook, General Motors, starts now.

I'm meeting General Motors chair and CEO Mary Barra at a factory in Flint, Michigan,

one of 11 GM vehicle assembly plants in the U.S.

I'm here to discover the leadership strategies Barra deployed to make General Motors the top-selling automaker in the country.

I started in manufacturing, and so this is home for me.

Barra began her career at GM at just 18 years old when she was in college.

She worked in a factory that built Pontiacs.

I was literally measuring the gap between the hood and the fender and then the door.

And then you went off to Stanford Business School, right?

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