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From the minute they took office, rumors of discord between Jac and Bill have swept the hallways of headquarters in Dearborn, Mich. There has been talk of shouting matches between the rich brat and the corporate master. Nasser and Ford hate that and vehemently deny they have ever had a real falling out. "This company has always loved to form camps around its top players," says Ford. "We're trying to avoid that...
Their offices adjoin each other on the top floor of the company's green glass World Headquarters building, but one look at them gives away the stark differences between Ford and Nasser. Ford's is warm and wood paneled, plastered with pictures of his family and himself. Practically everything--except his grandfather Edsel's desk--is recyclable, and tropical fish swim in a tank on one wall...
...about deliberation, the other about speed. Nasser had to work hard and suffer the indignities of an immigrant growing up in Australia. A 30-year lifer who has run just about every Ford fief on the planet, he is a relentless taskmaster with a passion for machines, Savile Row suits and exquisite watches (he has 120 at last count). He lives the code of today's global corporate warrior, perpetually moving through time zones and making deals...
...already moving when he took the CEO job, and within 18 months he acquired Volvo, Land Rover--and a divorce. Then he launched a complete corporate reorganization, in an everlasting quest to keep up Ford's rep as Detroit's best-run car company. "A lot of things came together," says Nasser. "We were a new generation in a new century and an incredible technological and communications revolution in which the consumers had the power. So it was time to make them the driving force...
...contrast, Ford is so devoted to his wife Lisa and their four kids that he's been dubbed Ford's No. 1 "soccer mom." Last year he moved to Ann Arbor, Mich., where he is building a modest (by billionaire standards) house to give his family a more normal existence than the legacy-ridden conclave of mansions in Grosse Pointe. His current vehicle of choice (he has a garageful, including a couple of juiced-up Mustangs): a chrome yellow Ford Escape, the company's new compact...