Ford’s Bill Ford: The Refounder Mindset, part 2
Masters of Scale
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🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Massive change isn’t something you can brute-force — you need to ignite buy-in, again and again, up and down your organization. Because even if your changes will make things more fun, more interesting, and more profitable, you’re going to face defiance and inertia until you clue everyone in. That’s what Bill Ford learned while working to remake Ford Motor Company as an environmental powerhouse — against surprising internal and even national-level resistance.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Bob Safian. You've been hearing me as the host of rapid response in this feed for a few years now, |
| 0:07.8 | with short newsy interviews alongside the deeper dives of Masters of Scale. Well, I'm excited to share that rapid response is expanding into its own feed. |
| 0:17.0 | We'll be putting out shows twice a week, focusing on the urgent issues that business leaders are dealing with in real time. |
| 0:24.8 | So search for rapid response in your podcast player |
| 0:28.0 | and subscribe to make sure you get all our episodes. |
| 0:31.2 | I'll see you on the other side. |
| 0:34.0 | Welcome to part two of my conversation about refounding with Bill Ford of Ford Motor Company. |
| 0:39.0 | If you missed part one, go back and listen. It's in your Masters of Scale Feed. |
| 0:44.0 | Previously, Bill shared with us how leaders or anyone can find ways to refound an organization |
| 0:49.3 | from the inside. It's a mission that touches everything from company culture to new products. |
| 0:55.0 | So we'll start today's show with a look at one product that recently enjoyed a refresh of |
| 0:59.7 | its own. The night that the reservations launched, you could track your dealerships as the reservations were coming in. |
| 1:09.0 | And I mean, through the night, we were just getting reservation after reservation after |
| 1:14.0 | reservation. The phones were also ringing all the time with questions like, when can I get it? |
| 1:20.2 | When can I come in and see one? |
| 1:22.2 | How do I drive on? |
| 1:27.2 | That's Eddie Hall the third. |
| 1:28.7 | He's a partner and chief operating officer |
| 1:30.8 | for the Hall Automotive Group of Greater Detroit. |
| 1:33.6 | He's been with a family business for over a decade, |
| 1:36.1 | but even he didn't expect the flood of phone calls and messages |
| 1:39.2 | on the night he's describing. |
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