Lead for once! Quit dictating!
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allow our friends that have been here in other teams to come join ours to te--orize the new employees. hazing process! like if u agree
Quality, quality, quality. The bosses at the top took there eye off the ball, "going all in" on EV vehicles and dropped the ball on making quality cars and trucks. Same mistake Jack Nasser made getting enamoured in E business and tossing money away on multiple brands that Ford lost billions on all the while sacrificing the bread and butter business which almost led to bankruptcy back then.
So first step: Fire the current leadership. How many billions are they allowed to throw away ($5B or so a year) on a failed EV strategy without personal ramifications? There job was to navigate the waters (see around the corners) and clearly have failed. Others get canned for far less. And please dont think the business is to complicated no one else could do it. That is pride and arrogance speaking. Elon proved that it could be done.
Stop hiring leaders from outside the company. This is does not install a motivated work force. So many of them only stay a short while and leave. Think the former CFO ford had for a year or so, Ditto, the former head of Marketing, Ditto, the former Apple Exec they hired who just now left, etc, etc. In a company as large as Ford there has to be some tallented driven individuals that can do at least as good a job (the bar is low here).
Next step get in people and/or promote that can actually move the needle on quality. The election of trump may have brought Ford 4 additional years. Fix the quality. Concurrent step, get that 500 mile plus battery at an affordable price to eliminate range anxiety.
Ford must know who they are. They keep flailing in the winds of time. A few examples:
Everyone is going all in on E_business, Ford has to do that (oh wait a minute)
Everyone is going big in EV, Ford must do that (oh wait a minute lets pull back)
Everyone is doing DEI, Ford must do it (Oh wait a minute lets back peddle).
If someone puts a depost on an electric F150 (there were 200K of them) dont raise the prices 3 times prior to giving them the opportunity to order the vehicle. Was this legal, yes, but ethical and how you want to treat your customers no. I view it as dishonest. So the 200k advanced orders vaporized. Meanwhile the management team ramps up production capacity for orders that never appear. They turn around and later lay off one of the shifts, now they have shut down the plant all together. To make matters worse they ticked off the few of the 200K deposits that actually purchased a vehicle. The value of there vehicles dropped like a stone as Ford flailed in the wind again and rapidly starting dropping prices to keep up with Tesla. These customers got the double wammy. Ford would have been much better to stay true to its word and honnor the original price. Perhaps many of the orders would not have vaporized and the plant would still be running. This was a collosal management blunder.
Novel idea. You are probably an older white guy.
Advice: Any current employee could step into the role of CEO and fail all the same, and at a fraction of the price.
Who wouldn't want some cost savings?
Bring back affordable cars. make products that make money. go back to the Henry Ford playbook. Admit your failures, for once.
Do Only What Matters - quit!
QUIT!
Please don't cut the lower levels, that's not where the waste is or where big savings will occur.
Is that your Jim?
Maybe treat your employees with respect and dignity? Nah, better deflect blame downward again. That’s the sign of a great leader.
What did Truman say? Pass the buck onto the next shmuck?
Admin is engagement farming. Did you really think you'd get anything but ripped to shreds here with that? Lol
You need a better grasp of elementary school grammar. If you are a ford employee, God help us.
If you are a leader for at least 2 year and you can't seems to make any improvements to the company profits, product quality, sales improvement, and your employees morale, then you need to be fired.
Stop being id--ts. Spend more time walking the shoes of the workers you give orders to each day and change directions on a whim with no thought of consequences it will have on our product and quality.
They wouldn’t listen anyway so I’m not going to waste my breath.
They should call up Alan Mulally and take some of his advice. Alan didn't blame the working level people when things didn't go well, instead he took action to fix the issues and succeeded.
I'd sing to them.
"Hit the road, Jack! And don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more!"
The need to double the budget for Model-e, spend more on EVs, cancel the ICE F150 and F250, purchase another train station and promote more Ford family members to executive positions.
I would advise them to cane all people who ask stupid questions.
Quit the company ASAP