I heard on the news this morning that Ford has made a old Boeing crony it's Vice CEO. Basically they are putting this guy in charge of "streamlining" the company to make it more competitive, blah blah blah. What really killed me though is that the guys said he wasn't going to take the position, until he realized that Ford's "Unique problems presented a challenge that he couldn't pass up." I call BS on that. Translation, they offered me this HUGE pile of money and I really couldn't say no, because I am a greedy self-centered old man.
It's so bizarre that Ford even considers itself an "American" company. They keep talking about bringing American companies into global competition, but if over half of your production plants are outside of the US then are you really an American company? I think that you are just simply a multi-national company whose headquaters just happen to be in the US. There is no American identity in any of these companies anymore.
The really funny thing is that Ford would really be having a conniption fit right now. He was very much a man of the late 1800s, in that, he believed in that early American spirit of entrepreneurship that values the worth of every man. He was a brilliant forward thinker who valued the worth of every employee. Yes he was anti-union, but only because he didn't like anyone telling him what to do. And honestly his workers were the BEST paid and cared for in the whole country at the time. Unions began a lot of times as ploy by organized crime to gain control of starter companies anyway, but we wont get into that.
If you really want to know about Ford and the company and the precepts it was founded on, then check out this book, excellent author, excellent book:
The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century (Hardcover)
by Steven Watts
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