Fixing up Ford
By Alex Taylor III, senior editor [Fortune June 1st 2009]
Mulally's being "this way" has, at least for now, kept Ford ahead of GM and Chrysler in the fight for survival. Unlike its traditional rivals, Mulally's Ford insists it has enough cash to ride out the economic downturn and does not want the government loans that the other two companies have accepted.
Ford's financial independence is largely due to a new operational discipline that Mulally has installed, as well as some timely strategic moves he initiated. So while GM suffered the ignominy of seeing the Treasury Department's auto task force depose chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner, and Chrysler has declared bankruptcy, Ford stands alone as an independent company and, potentially, a Detroit survivor. "Alan was the right choice [to be CEO], and it gets more right every day," says executive chairman Bill Ford, the man who hired him.
歷經多年虧損的洗禮,似乎才有本事在產業大地震中成為生還者.
當其他大車廠需要政府疏困時,只有褔特汽車不需要....................似乎是"所以動心忍性,增益其所不能"最佳範例.