DREADLINE HENRY FORD WAKES UP; FIRES GREAT GRANDSON The Ford Motor Company has of late been so inept at building cars Americans would like to own that Henry Ford no longer found it possible to remain dead.
Making a surprise appearance at Ford Headquarters, he entered his great-grandson’s office, and said, “What the hell is going on, Billy?”
“Who are you?” asked William Clay Ford, Jr., now the CEO of the company.
“Who do I look like? Certainly, you’ve seen my pictures since you were a child in swaddling vinyl?”
“Don’t tell me! Great granddad?”
“Don’t great-granddaddy me, Billy boy! Why can’t you make a car people want to buy?”
“We’re trying.”
“Hogwash. Don’t try; just do it!”
“I just hired a new man to make sure it happens.”
“Mulally? What’s an airplane man know about building cars?”
“He turned Boeing around. I figured maybe he can do the same for us.”
“Haven’t you heard what the man’s saying? You’re headed where you’d be going even without him – to being a smaller company. What kind of genius does that take?” FULL STORY |