Word: chrysler
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...appliance-store owners. Then along came Victor Kiam (the guy who loved the shaver so much that "I bought the company") and Frank Perdue ("It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken") and, of course, Lee Iacocca. The distinguished silvery head of Iacocca's successor at Chrysler, Robert J. Eaton, is currently featured larger than life (or so we must hope) in a baffling series of newspaper ads celebrating himself and one Jurgen E. Schrempp, CEO of Daimler-Benz, as "two intuitive leaders" who had the vision to merge their companies...
...since we sought to recognize leadership in several different industries. If, as I believe, the automobile is the product of the century, we could easily have filled the list with the names of famous automakers, including Alfred P. Sloan, Charles Kettering and William Durant (all from General Motors), Walter Chrysler, Ferdinand Porsche (Porsche and Volkswagen), Ransom Olds, Clement Studebaker and the Dodge brothers. Henry J. Kaiser not only built cars but also played a key role in shipbuilding, construction, housing and hospitals. In the end, however, we settled on Henry Ford because his individual genius was so responsible for automating...
...simplistic and uninformed, and they rarely understand that government's stakeholders have different interests from their own company's shareholders'. Moreover, they tend to be authoritarian, and they aren't often very tolerant of contrary opinions. Lee Iacocca, the charismatic auto executive who did great work at Ford and Chrysler, was one CEO who recognized his limitations. Following publication of his autobiography, Iacocca, which sold 7 million copies, he flirted briefly with making a run for the presidency. In the end, Iacocca decided against it, realizing he would never have the patience required to deal with Congress. Compromising to achieve...
...Iacocca was president of Ford, later chairman of Chrysler and last year founded EV Global Motors
...CHRYSLER AIRFLOW It was the first car designed with the help of a wind tunnel and the first with a fully streamlined body. Chrysler put the engine over the front axle and moved the passenger cabin forward to create a more comfortable ride, a design still used in today's sedans...