Where Have All The Leaders Gone? - Plot & Excerpts
Chrysler’s lesson: Resist the urge to merge In life we all have high points and low points. Sometimes you’re up and the sky’s the limit. Other times you’re down and you’re sweating bullets. The bad times lead to negative thoughts and you wonder, how the hell did I get into this mess? When I look back over almost fifty years in the car business, I see some real doozies on both the up and down sides of the scale. Introducing the Mustang in 1964 at the New York World’s Fair was a magic moment in my life. I was on a high then, and the Mustang’s success propelled me into the presidency of Ford in 1970. Me, an immigrant kid from Allentown, Pennsylvania, named president of the second-largest company in the world. Who would have dreamed it? Well, with the good comes the bad, and if being president of Ford was a high, being fired in 1978 from the same job was the pits. One day I was in the catbird seat and the next day I was reading the want ads. I got another job all right, but it was more like going from the frying pan into the fire.
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