Jim was a commencement speaker at GVSU yesterday. The poor kids had to listen to his dribble.. I understand he spoke about hiring Jim Harbaugh. Give it up old man...me thinks you took one too many hits when you were playing ball.
The guy wrecked Steelcase and continued on to wreck Ford.
It reminds me every time of Mr. Hackett as CEO of his contribution when walking through the PDC hallway and seeing all types of office furnitures, a great variety, and the free coffee stations. Beyond this, I can’t hardly think of his other contributions. Feel like the 3 lost years he was at Ford.
Hackett eliminated most of the well developed key life testing that made Ford Quality tops back in the day. He was able to cut these heads and moved the testing to suppliers. Unfortunately, this testing transition was done poorly with the testing of system interactions and many noise factors dropping off the table resulting in the recalls and struggling Quality. It is going to take some major management ba--s/effort to recognize that this is a problem to have a chance at fixing Quality. Most of the people that developed key life tests are long gone from Ford.
@xqd+1mo8ZC5I and you too ignorant to see that anyone outside Wayne County saw Hackett as an incompetent and in way over his head. He was not a leader lacked Karma. Man was boring.
You need to be charismatic. Again Hackett and Billy both lack that.
He couldn’t hack it
you would probably have to go back to chrysler mid 1970s to find a worse auto CEO than mr hackett?
You've got it all wrong...Hackett is actually brilliant, but we mortals just aren't smart enough to interpret his genius riddles.
@bgh+1mo8ZC5I Hackett was wholly unsuitable for Ford.
All of the design thinking that he claimed were his ideas came from the IDEO leadership. Steelcase quasi absorbed IDEO and that is where all the design thinking and original thought came from. Hackett just parroted what he could understand and presented it as his own thoughts and ideas. He was able to pull this off when talking about desks, chairs and waste bins - utter disaster when talking about more complex products such as automobiles and software.
Ford would have been far better off having someone like David M. Kelley (IDEO founder and a real engineer) on BOD instead of Hackett (salesman) and the whole Hackett disaster never would have happened.
@bgh That "long in the tooth old Ford guard" made this company many Billions of dollars and Jim&Jim tore it all down. The current leadership team is all hot air and is amounting to a big fat zero. Its nice that you are a team player, but it just proves to me that you and your ilk are all part of the destruction of an iconic American company.
I thought Jim did many good things for the company and put it in position for the current transformational Ford+ Plan to occur. I would not say his leadership team was in the same class and capability as our current leadership though, as Hackett was bogged down by too many long in the tooth old Ford guards. With the best outsider leadership from the best tech companies, this is why we are better off now.
Jim “Too much football without a helmet” Hackett.
The sad thing is that those impressionable kids will believe what that space cadet had to say. Hopefully they were all stoned and not paying attention.