The Detroit News is offering choice excerpts in serial form of Bryce G. Hoffman's new book, American Icon: Alan Mulally And the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company. Among many other
things, the book details how Bill Ford, Jr. reached out to Mulally to lead the company in 2006 after all the big names in the automobile industry had turned Ford down.
"The name at the top of
their new list was Alan Mulally, president of Boeing Co.'s commercial airplane division. On July 29, 2006, Bill Ford sent a Gulfstream V to Seattle to pick up Mulally and fly him to Michigan for a
meeting at his home outside Ann Arbor," Hoffman writes.
"They pulled up to Bill Ford's gate at noon. Alan Mulally admired the leafy estate. He recognized that he was in the domain of the
truly rich. But as the Expedition pulled up to the front door, he was surprised to see the lord of the manor emerge from the front door in shorts and a polo shirt, accompanied by his wife, Lisa."
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