Alan Mulally Quotes

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Alan Mulally

Profession : Businessman

Birth : August 4, 1945

Positive leadership - conveying the idea that there is always a way forward - is so important, because that is what you are here for - to figure out how to move the organization forward. Critical to doing that is reinforcing the idea that everyone is included.

Alan Mulally

Never make a joke or try for humor at someone else's expense. In a high-stakes environment, everyone needs to feel safe.

Alan Mulally

You need to have a can-do attitude. There is always a way.

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Data can set you free.

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What I found over the years is the most important thing is for a team to come together over a compelling vision, a comprehensive strategy for achieving that vision, and then a relentless implementation plan.

Alan Mulally

No country is ever successful in the long term... without a really strong and vibrant manufacturing base.

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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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The purpose of life is to love and be loved... what could possibly be more energizing than that?

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You can't improve if you don't know what the real situation is.

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I grew up with Microsoft. I know the leadership of Microsoft.

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You can't manage a secret.

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I'm more convinced than when I accepted this job that we can create a viable Ford Motor Co. that makes cars and trucks that people really do prefer. And we can make them using minimum resources and minimum time and be competitive with our competition.

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If you have a common purpose and an environment in which people want to help others succeed, the problems will be fixed quickly.

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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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It's all about competitiveness: are you making the products that people really do want and value, and are you making it more efficiently and using less resources and less time than the competition?

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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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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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It's really important that we have an improvement curve on fuel mileage and CO2 reduction.

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It's all about producing products people want.

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It's just really important that we have boundaries and guidelines to operate. Our homes, the cars, everything is going to be on the Internet. And so what are the guidelines? What do we want?

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