Ford's Chief Manufacturing Officer on Killing Command and Control

Ford's Chief Manufacturing Officer on Killing Command and Control

Bryce Currie runs manufacturing for Ford, with more than 40 plants and well over 100,000 people. Ask him who he is as a leader, and the answer comes in two words: servant leader. In this segment, he traces that back to his father, who rejected command-and-control in the '70s and '80s, and to the Toyota Production System, where he learned the real lesson was never the lean tools; it was respect for people. He gets candid about the bosses who threw books and yelled, why Chainsaw Al's fear culture collapsed, and the eye rolls he got when he brought servant leadership to Ford. If you lead people in this industry, this is where the shift starts.

Watch the full conversation with Bryce Currie, Chief Manufacturing Officer, for the bus tours, the Edison challenge, and his message to the supply base. Link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzkAxby2kfw

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The Automotive Leaders Podcast is hosted by Jan Griffiths, the champion for culture change in the automotive industry. From a farm in Wales to the C-suite of a $3 billion Tier-1 supplier, Jan built her career inside this industry. Now she's out to transform it.

Her argument is blunt. The pressure on this industry isn't letting up. The survivors will be the ones who reinvent how they work. Speed wins. Everyone else gets left behind.

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