Thread regarding Ford layoffs

Caught between two worlds

Do you promote from within from a pool of employees saturated with the Ford culture soup of complacency, cronyism, incompetence and waste ?

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Do you try to recruit external bright bunnies who have a track record of pitching wonderful new processes and commitments at companies - and always managing to be somewhere else when their plans met the realities of implementation?

Cuts both ways
Do you want more of the same?

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A brief illusion of change and progress?

Most execs choose the latter as they also plan to jump before they are pushed, leaving a bad smell behind for the next person to cover up.

To make matters worse most of the Ford managers clawing their way upward are also playing the game of never being responsible for actually implementing their grand plans - they always switch positions before implementation and blame their successor for messing up the implementation.

Here we sit in a deteriorating company where no one is responsible. A huge circle of “brilliant” finger pointing “idea men” who have no actual implementation experience.

Elena liked him? Like she knows what she is doing! Come on man lets be real! The only reason she is where she is at Ford is the name on the side of the building! Otherwise her resume would be tossed into the shredder! Now Back to Jim. I gave him one year to see what his vision and plan would be for the company? How much of Billy is the influence in that plan?
You can pay special attention to BODY LANGAUGE. To me JF BL does not tell me he believes what he is saying. More like a Puppet or pawn of Billy's plan. I had a BL expert who told me they felt the same after watching him speak. Not passionate like Allan. Bu t-t is very clear form reading other post on the recent hires of top level reports to JF that internally the BOD does not feel the current bench is up to running these types of areas in the company. I see Fields will do a study of his organization and expect drastic changes to come. Expect to see more direct reports hired from the outside!

Farley has hired from the outside throughout his Ford career. When he was CMO he hired Matt VanDyke
former Group Account Director for Team One Los Angeles (led Lexus brand and dealer association advertising in the US). At the same time he let go two or three Ford marketing directors (LL4+). He certainly created a lot of fear in the leadership team

I worked with Matt, he seemed smart, Elena Ford really, really liked him. It is debatable whether he delivered any real results.

If there is no internal loyalty and promotion from within, why should customers have any brand loyalty for Ford?

If you can’t get results, shuffle your staff as a diversion to stockholders. Same as rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Just sell Ford to VW. Management can no longer produce safe and reliable vehicles.