Ford shakes up management after bruising year

[Wretched]

Originally Posted by simon varley

all change, but nothing changes. still the same all white middle aged male management group

including Hau Thai-Tang?

[kevino]

Originally Posted by Wretched

including Hau Thai-Tang?

The opposite to Kia.

Charge less sell more.

but I never hear how Hyundai-Kia are going financially.

[MercuryT]

Originally Posted by kevino

but I never hear how Hyundai-Kia are going financially.

I suspect they are absolutely killing it with the amount they sell.

Every second car on road seems to be one!

[simon varley]

Originally Posted by Wretched

including Hau Thai-Tang?

yup. white middle aged is a state of mind as much as physical being.

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by simon varley

yup. white middle aged is a state of mind as much as physical being.

Agree - I'm 28 but I'm a cynical old baby boomer mentally

[Sprintey]

Simon, you do understand (if your ethnicity bears any resemblance to your user tag) that by the time you reach peak career/peak earnings (usually 47) - the very criticisms you point at current management may see you get sidelined or cut in favour of someone more diverse? (Regardless of talent)

Surely the best world is where merit and competence allows one to reach their peak potential, not a world of quota based reverse discrimination?

Anyway, I liked your share price timing. The ASX200 listed company my career was with peaked when I left, still hasn't recovered.

[DFB FGXR6]

This weeks edition of Autoline After Hours has some interesting comments about the Ford shake up in the second half of the program.

http://www.autoline.tv/journal/?p=66094

[simon varley]

Originally Posted by Sprintey

the very criticisms you point at current management may see you get sidelined or cut in favour of someone more diverse?

don't worry. I plateaued a long time ago.

and in truth after the upsets of the last 12 months I think everyone left standing in Ford Oz finally realises that we are all just numbers to American bean counters.

[Sprintey]

FWIW graduating in the early 1990s was an absolute disaster, jobs and career wise, and if it taught me one thing it was to create as much self reliance as possible. Supposedly the worst time for work since the Great Depression. I was lucky enough to develop, eventually, by the mid 2000s, a good career path (in a field I was not trained for, but so many of our mates graduating did not work in their field of study) and the WA minerals boom elevated many of us into big hours/big money made. Later, I got sick and couldn't continue - but I'd been very frugal (caused in part by the zeitgeist graduated into) and done OK, so could continue on in my current path. Maybe it will be maverick Aussie engineers that launch the local, locally owned, electric "Holden" of the future - and give the big corporates and all their PC HR bullsHt a bit of a fright. The Carbon Revolution guys have blazed a great path (co-invested with the Uni so yes I think they had a bit of help on top of their great methods and ideas)

Early 1990s joke:
What did the Economics graduate say to the Arts graduate?
"Fill 'er up."
What did the Law graduate say to the Economics graduate?
"Big Mac please."

[Sprintey]

Originally Posted by simon varley

still the same all white middle aged male management group

Originally Posted by Wretched

Hau Thai-Tang

thanks for the lols