Executive Leadership

Mr. Ford’s Wrong Turn

In an op-ed piece in The Washington Post, James P. Womack, founder and chairman of the Lean Enterprise Institute, responds to an assertion by Ford Motor Co. Chairman Bill Ford that his company could compete with Toyota but not Japan. "What makes this claim so extraordinary is that Japanese companies, led by Toyota Motor Corp., are thrashing Ford by building vehicles in North American factories with North American-made parts and North American workers, who receive American-style wages and health benefits. And increasingly, these Japanese brand vehicles are engineered in America by Americans," Womack wrote. (Published by The Washington Post.)