The Table: Ford CEO Jim Hackett
Boss Files with Poppy Harlow
CNN
4.6 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode of Boss Files, a live CNN business conversation called The Table with Ford's CEO Jim Hackett. |
| 0:08.1 | It's a forum for transformative voices from different industries to discuss how disruption is affecting their industry at large. |
| 0:15.0 | So one of the things we've instituted at Ford is a thing called Curious Minds, which means like the table, we will invite the smartest |
| 0:23.2 | people in the world to come in and tell us what they're doing so that we can derive from that |
| 0:27.9 | how we might use that capability. He's leading the iconic American company at a time when technology |
| 0:33.5 | is disrupting the auto industry. Why he calls this the biggest shift in transportation |
| 0:39.3 | since Henry Ford and the Model T, how autonomous vehicles will change the world. |
| 0:45.3 | He's not worried about competition from the likes of Tesla. |
| 0:49.3 | He says Ford has been disrupting the auto industry long before Elon Musk. I happen to compete with |
| 0:55.8 | a rocket scientist who's really smart and I respect that about him. What he's learned from Amazon |
| 1:00.6 | and the leadership of Jeff Bezos. Plus, his main goal for Ford to be the most trusted company |
| 1:07.3 | in the world. Also, the advice he gives to President Trump on the trade war with China. |
| 1:13.7 | We traveled to Detroit to sit down for our very first CNN business live conversation called |
| 1:19.5 | The Table with Ford CEO, Jim Hackett. Let me bring up to the stage in just a moment, Jim Hackett, |
| 1:26.8 | the Ford president and CEO. |
| 1:30.3 | Just to give you a little bit of background, Ford has the most hourly workers of any U.S. |
| 1:35.3 | automaker. They build the most vehicles of any U.S. automaker right here in America. |
| 1:41.3 | Bill Ford, who asked Jim Hackett to take this job, |
| 1:45.5 | and Hackett said, I don't know. |
| 1:47.6 | Let me think about it. |
| 1:48.7 | The only person I've ever heard to think about a CEO job |
| 1:52.3 | before he took it. |
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