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Sometimes big companies need full-scale crises to force changes in their old habits. Ford came back from near bankruptcy in the 1980s by cutting costs and creating teams of workers and managers to design and build new cars. Such teamwork produced the Ford Taurus, which now vies with the Honda Accord for the title of best-selling...
...without making personal attacks. Known widely as "Mack," he has built an unusual degree of loyalty across political lines simply by being direct and honest. One of the few people in Clinton's inner circle with private business experience, McLarty ran his family's chain of Ford dealerships for 15 years and recalls the pain of making what he calls "better-bad choices," which included firing family members and close friends who didn't measure up. "I don't think you have to be autocratic or meanspirited," he says, "but decisions have to be made, and I know...
...DAYS AFTER THE ELECTION, Bill Clinton sought advice from an unlikely quarter: the Bush White House. The President-elect wanted to talk process, not personalities, so he phoned Roger Porter, a senior Bush aide who had served on President Ford's economic policy council. Clinton quizzed Porter on his 1980 book, Presidential Decision Making, which recommends, among other things, that policy be deliberated on by a group similar to the National Economic Council that Clinton created last week...
...whole process has gotten very costly,"said Wyche. The organization plans to apply to thePew Foundation, the Ford Foundation and theNational Science Foundation for additional funds...
...Collins; $45). On May 20, 1992, 75 photographers invaded Movietown for 24 hours. They emerged with a revealing album of stars and wannabees: tots holding their 8-by-10 glossies; Harrison Ford, burned out from too many interviews; Hugh Hefner coming to the door accompanied by a Doberman. Hollywood has never looked so energetic, wealthy or anxious...