That was too much for the rest of the board, concerned that the leadership dispute was destabilizing the company, a leviathan with 600,000 employees. In German family-controlled companies, rocking the boat is the ultimate sin. Threatened with a forcible ouster, Piech and his wife chose to resign. This was about boardroom dynamics, family frictions (Piech's cousin Wolfgang Porsche was an early supporter of Winterkorn), government relations and leadership style aesthetics -- anything but the business of making and selling cars.
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