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Creating Tomorrow Together - Anyone Attend?

Anyone attend the events at Creating Tomorrow Together? If so what did you think? Tell you what I thought. Management has become even more savvy to shed all accountability when poor decisions are made. Design thinking, more like be as vague as possible and let people squirm to meet the milestones.

I feel sorry for what the company has become. I see competitors (most especially the ones from APA) that just seem to pick a path and stick to it. This company has flip flopped processes, timing, and objectives so often that not one program is ever delivered the same as the one before it. Why is that? We have so many people trying to figure out how we should work and tracking work vs. people who "do" real work.

If Hackett thought 2018 should be buried, most definitely 2019 will be in the same family grave plot. Might as well start digging a hole for 2020. I just saw they took a pension charge hit on the 4th quarter. When is the]CEO going to be admonished for the loser he truly is? Same goes for Farley. Extremely disappointed with Bill Ford, seems so out of touch with the business that has his surname on it. But alas, the Lions are basically a scaled down experiment for how serious the family takes business.

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And the Ford Family has completely lost the "founder's spirit". When is the last time you heard a Ford talk about winning; being the best? They just stuff our ears with a bunch of BS, TED talk "I am a smart slacker" mentality. Mobility, Scooters, Autonomous (run over grandma crossing the street), etc. Trucks and SUV's are the last stand, and Ford is losing ground. Toyota Rav4 dominates the most popular segment (and is more affordable than Escape with a better powertrain lineup). Escape has s—ed since 2012, and the new one s—s even more (1.5L I3 in $25-28K vehicle, pathetic). Trucks, Toyota will figure out how to lure customers (they always do), and when that happens then what? Or Ford will self inflict failure due to risky decisions (as of late they seem to be mastering, Explorer/Aviator?). So what will we have left? I guess Henry Ford Museum and Green Field Village because the company will be history.

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Post ID: @3qmm+139DCdmH

@2bjo - For the last 117 years, the Ford family name continues to be on all the company building signs and vehicles we produce, Not sure what's hard to understand, they own the company.

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@2bjo+139DCdmH your post reminds me of a drunk college freshman who is trying to explain the laws of relativity or keynsian economic theory. Its very amusing.

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Post ID: @3ytv+139DCdmH

The Ford family under the leadership of Bill Ford is taking us down the path towards mobility. That is why Bill Ford signed off on buying non-core businesses like the Train Station, Argo and the investment in Corktown. Let’s not forget the $500M investment in RIVAN and partnership with VW to development electric and autonomous vehicles. Also the failed mobility partnerships/ventures over the last several years. None of this could not have happened without the buy in of Bill Ford and his family who own the controlling interest of Ford Motor Co. I would be willing to bet that when Jim Hackett leaves the board will replace him with a likeminded CEO who will continue the mobility direction that Bill Ford envisions for his future company. I'm sure this comment will get a lot of negative responses but this is what has happened and I believe what will continue going forward.

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Post ID: @2bjo+139DCdmH

I think this is a very bad dream and we will wake up and urgently find better leadership that has some passion for the auto industry.

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Post ID: @2dyf+139DCdmH

@OP As long as those everyone in your post is making all those benjamins, why should they care? They treat the job as a temporary gig cashing in while doing the bidding of whatever Bill wants. (And Bill appears as clueless as Eddie Lampert at Sears.) When it all falls apart they have their golden parachutes while the rest of us get pushed out of the plane at 10k feet without one.

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