Alan Mulally Quotes
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Think about just exceeding expectations of every job you're being asked to do. Continually ask for feedback on how it's going. Ask everybody involved what you can do to do an even better job, and the world will beat down your door trying to ask you to do more and more.
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The One Ford plan drives the business to get PGA, Profitable Growth for All, meaning that every year we increase the profits and cash flow. So how do we do that? We serve all the markets around the world with a complete family of vehicles and use the One Ford Plan.
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I grew up with Microsoft. I know the leadership of Microsoft.
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An important part of leadership is being able to hold two things in your mind at once: Dealing with the reality, whatever it may be, and focus on hope for the future. Any leader helping an organization through challenges needs to be able to do both.
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I've just seen it all - I've seen the bird flu, I've seen the Asian economic meltdown, SARS, 9/11, economic cycles.
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Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.
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Data can set you free.
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I had a great life at Boeing. I'd been there for 37 years and contributed to all the Boeing airplanes as a designer: the 707, 727, 37, 47, 57, 67 and 'triple 7' and the 87.
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Transparency is so important in business.
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A gas tax could be one important element of an integrated energy policy.
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Information should never be used as a weapon on a team.
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I taught my executive team how to argue.
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I'm a creative guy, a designer, a customer.
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There's a Ford dealer in every city around the United States. They're the fabric of the community. They're either head of the chamber of commerce or the priest, or I mean they're just the fabric of America, and they took care of us.
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At Ford, one of the behaviors is you listen, and you don't have side conversations during the meeting. It's just so important everybody stays focused.
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When people feel accountable and included, it is more fun.
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Google is really committed to improving everything. So it has been really fun to participate in all of their different moonshots.
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I have a lot of respect for Microsoft.
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It is just more rewarding to do things in a supportive environment.
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If you're going to be world-class, you have to focus.
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I've been very fortunate to be part of projects that are really big and broad.
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We don't worry over macro-economic factors when investing, as we are always thinking about the long-term.
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What I've learned is the power of a compelling vision.
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I felt very comfortable moving from aerospace to automobiles.