Thread regarding Ford layoffs

Owning successes (and failures)

IMHO, our biggest problem is a lack of ownership of failures. Without accountability we are doomed to fail again and again.

Farley claimed he would fix the warranty issues. He has been here since 2007 and the problem use worse, not better. He has also presided over declining market share. When will the Ford family say enough is enough?

Then we have FLV and Ford Next spending billions of dollars chasing unicorns with zero profits to show for it. Announcing Canopy a year and a half before it is supposedly going to be available is desperation to make it look like they have something. There are already competitors in this space with products available today, Ford will not be competitive. When will Farley or the Ford family admit this is going nowhere and pull the plug?

Ford was in business over 100 years as a vehicle manufacturer, and we are still nothing Moore than a vehicle manufacturer. The sooner we get our affairs in order and our focus on producing quality vehicles that customers want and can afford to buy, the longer we will stay in business.

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Post ID: @OP+1kWxYy2s

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Ford NEVER makes mistakes. They are called miscalculations?

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Post ID: @par+1kWxYy2s

I had seen many owned the success from fixing others' failures. But, due to the rapid LL's job movements, no one owns the failures. It is a very positive picture if you only look at the success. The only place you can find the failures is outside of the front gate.

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Post ID: @pkw+1kWxYy2s

While I agree with your post OP, we are doomed to repeat history. FMC started to go off the rails under Bill Ford's time as CEO. All the recent problems aro--ed again because he is making the decisions by proxy. The years that passed by didn't make him more knowledgeable, just more stupid.

IMHO, we are not going to be much longer in business. IDK how cooked are the books, but the company has been behaving the last 3-4 years like it has no money. We have sold buildings (except Billy's toy the train station), we have fired people, we have stopped investments (except in BEVs), we have delayed tech refreshes, and in the most recent circus, our clown CEO said that "we are not going to invest in things that lose money anymore".

BTW, I just wish those words were true and Ford would let go BEVs, data and subscription projects, and all those new "bells and whistles" that are money losing propositions.

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