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When Bill Ford was named chairman of the board for the Ford Motor Company in 2000, I was honored to be selected as Ford’s global manager of Human Rights. I spent my first 17 years at the company working in manufacturing – often in jobs that I hated but loving the people I worked with. I often joke that I’m probably the only person in Ford that has a bachelor’s degree in poetry and a graduate degree in operations research, but I think this unusual background put me on a team that required a different type of systems thinking.
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Berdish, D. (2013). A Poet in the Car Company: Sustainability of Passion and Profitability. In: Madhavan, G., Oakley, B., Green, D., Koon, D., Low, P. (eds) Practicing Sustainability. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4349-0_13
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