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#1 2010-09-08 00:07:52
- shamrockmonkey
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Ford Motor Company during the 60s-bastion of ivy?
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#2 2010-09-08 03:10:29
- Sowtondevil
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Re: Ford Motor Company during the 60s-bastion of ivy?
This insight is fascinating. I am conscious that in many organisations aspiring associates dress like their boss in an effort to seek approval and patronage, but here is a fascinating example of how dress becomes a vehicle of change in the corporation's culture and succession planning. Thanks for the extract.
#3 2010-09-08 03:22:16
- shamrockmonkey
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Re: Ford Motor Company during the 60s-bastion of ivy?
the book is about 900 pages long, but the direction it seems to be going is that, in a nutshell, the worship of the ivy-leaguers' financial planning models, and the finance department referenced above in general, at the expense of things like production, design, and marketing, were a large factor in ford's decline. some of the same people, McNamara most notably, went on to apply their theories to a war, with even more disastrous results. the ivy look-innocent victim of association with short-sighted numbers wonks?
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#4 2010-09-08 13:15:06
- 4F Hepcat
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Re: Ford Motor Company during the 60s-bastion of ivy?
There's fascinating documentary on Robert McNamara 'The Fog of War', its tremendous and yes, he applied his theories to war, but he learnt lessons and offers them to us, he comes across as decent enough:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_of_War
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