Characteristics Of a Business Leader

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Characteristics of Business Leadership Describe the business leader’s primary business or businesses, highlighting how the leader got started and analyze the leader’s three (3) major business challenges in establishing and/or running the company. Alan Mulally is the president and chief executive officer of Ford Motor Company which is a global automotive industry leader based in Dearborn, Michigan. Ford manufactures or distributes automobiles across six continents, has about 164,000 employees and about 70 plants worldwide. The company’s automotive brands include Ford and Lincoln. Before joining Ford in September 2006, Mulally served as executive vice president of Boeing, and president and chief executive officer of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. In that job, he was responsible for all of the company’s commercial airplane programs and related services. Mulally also was a member of the Boeing Executive Council and served as Boeing’s senior executive in the Pacific Northwest. Mulally was named Boeing’s president of Commercial Airplanes in September 1998. The responsibility of chief executive officer for the business unit was added in March 2001. Before that, Mulally was president of Boeing Information, Space & Defense Systems and senior vice president of The Boeing Company. Promoted to that job in February 1997, he was responsible for Boeing’s defense, space and government business. Starting in 1994, Mulally was senior vice president of Airplane Development for Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group, responsible for all airplane development work, flight test operations, certification and government technical liaison. Earlier, Mulally served as Boeing’s vice president of Engineering, and as vice president and general manager of the 777 program. Mulally joined Boeing in 1969 and promoted through a bunch of large scale engineering and program-management assignments,

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