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...recently, with the exception of a new Mustang, an instant hit, Ford has failed to produce cars that have energized the market. Peter Horbury, the company's director of design and Volvo's former design chief, whom Ford brought to Detroit in 2004, was stunned by Ford Motor's rulebound ways. "I told the designers to just get on with what they were doing," he says, "and they looked at me terrified, like, What does that mean?" The designers were so used to following orders that Horbury needed first to develop with them a basic company design language before encouraging...
...sports are so rulebound as tournament golf. A competitor can be penalized for carrying more than 14 clubs in his bag (two strokes for each excess club), for accidentally moving a ball (one stroke), for playing too slowly (two strokes), or for wiping mud off his ball (two strokes). Yet few are so strict or so harsh in their application as Rule No. 38, which holds a player responsible for the accuracy of his scorecard -even though he does not keep his own score. His opponent does: each player checks his score, then both sign the card, attesting...
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