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"I'd Like My Life Back" -- a lesson for CEOs in building an organization that listens to warnings

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Guest post by Dave Yarin: It was April 2010, and a Fortune 500 CEO would utter one of the most ill advised yet memorable lines in corporate history. Before the 2010 disaster, Hayward was described as "unassuming and modest." NPR.org – "Before Gulf Spill, BP CEO Tony Hayward Won Praise" – by Jim Zarroli – June 17, 2010 2.

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Ten Years After Ford’s Spectacular Turnaround, What Alan Mulally Reveals About Brand-Inspired Cultural Revolution

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Mulally also drove Ford's engineers to define Ford’s “DNA,” as Derrick Kuzak, Ford’s global product chief, called it—the “genome that was designed to and engineered to convey quality, innovation, and style.” In 2010, Motor Trend named one of Ford’s newest cars, the Ford Fusion, “Car of the Year.”

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