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

Categorized in : You Way Positive Leadership

An automobile has about 10,000 moving parts, right? An airplane has two million, and it has to stay up in the air.

Alan Mulally

up-in-the-air airplane moving

We've incentivized people in the past to maybe turn their vehicles over, you know sooner rather than later. And in the United States with the squeeze on discretionary income and credit that even as the economy comes back there's probably more of a chance than not that it'll be a slower recovery on auto sales.

Alan Mulally

recovery people past

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Mulally

car people years

The success of SYNC is another proof point that we are doing just that. We will continue to innovate and expand the capability of SYNC by integrating even more new technologies that fit our customers’ lifestyles.

Alan Mulally

lifestyle fit technology

Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.

Alan Mulally

vision leadership together people

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

vision team important together

When work is what you love to do, it's not work - it's serving.

Alan Mulally

you what-you-love work love

I really do believe that working together works, and it's amazing to me.

Alan Mulally

me working-together together believe

If you get honest feedback and do nothing about it, then the feedback will stop.

Alan Mulally

stop nothing will you

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

Alan Mulally

without strong long country

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

Alan Mulally

loved purpose love life

If you're going to be world-class, you have to focus.

Alan Mulally

world-class going you focus

Don't manage your career. Follow your dream and contribute.

Alan Mulally

follow your career dream

Think about just exceeding expectations of every job you're being asked to do. Continually ask for feedback on how it's going. Ask everybody involved what you can do to do an even better job, and the world will beat down your door trying to ask you to do more and more.

Alan Mulally

job think you world

Whatever we do toward energy independence has to be done in the context of using less resources.

Alan Mulally

whatever independence energy done

It is just more rewarding to do things in a supportive environment.

Alan Mulally

more just things environment

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.

Alan Mulally

future focus leadership hope

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

Alan Mulally

help-others problems you people

The automobile has moved into the mainstream of our integrated digital world.

Alan Mulally

our automobile digital world

Ford is committed to building a sustainable future for the benefit of all Americans, and we believe Ford is on the right path to achieve this vision.

Alan Mulally

future vision path believe