MBA备考商务英语泛读文选(24)

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Reading Assignment 2 请写一篇读后感 Driving force: Henry Ford (1780 words) Time; New York; Dec 7, 1998; Lee Iacocca; [Author note]: Lee Iacocca was president of Ford, later chairman of Chrysler and last year founded EV Global Motors. The only time I ever met Henry Ford, he looked at me and probably wondered, "Who is this little s.o.b. fresh out of college?" He wasn't real big on college graduates, and I was one of 50 in the Ford training course in September 1946, working in a huge drafting room at the enormous River Rouge plant near Detroit. One day there was a big commotion at one end of the floor and in walked Henry Ford with Charles Lindbergh. They walked down my aisle asking men what they were doing. I was working on a mechanical drawing of a clutch spring (which drove me out of engineering forever), and I was worried that they'd ask me a question because I didn't know what the hell I was doing-I'd been there only 30 days. I was just awestruck by the fact that there was Colonel Lindberg with my new boss, coming to shake my hand. The boss was a genius. He was an eccentric. He was no prince in his social attitudes and his politics. But Henry Ford's mark in history is almost unbelievable. In 1905, when there were 50 start-up companies a year trying to get into the auto business, his backers at the new Ford Motor Co. were insisting that the best way to maximize profits was to build a car for the rich. But Ford was from modest, agrarian Michigan roots. And he thought that the guys who made the cars ought to be able to afford one themselves so that they too could go for a spin on a Sunday afternoon. In typical fashion, instead of listening to his backers, Ford eventually bought them out. (接下文) (未完待续)

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