GRACE under pressure: John Baldoni with Alan Mulally

Alan Mulally is one of the world’s most recognized CEOs for his contributions and industry leadership. Honors include being named No. 3 on Fortune’s “World’s Greatest Leaders” list, one of the 30 “World’s Best CEOs” by Barron’s magazine, “Industry Leader of the Year” by Automotive News magazine, one of “The World’s Most Influential People” by TIME magazine, “Chief Executive of the Year” by Chief Executive magazine, “Man of the Year” in the automotive sector by El Mundo and “Person of the Year” by Aviation Week magazine. Alan Mulally served as president and chief executive officer of Ford Motor Company and was a member of the company’s Board of Directors from September 2006 to June 2014.. Prior to Ford, 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. Alan has also been honored with the American Society for Quality’s Joseph M. Juran Medal for excellence in executive leadership for Quality, the Automotive Executive of the Year Award, the Edison Achievement Award and induction into the Kansas Business Hall of Fame. Mulally served on the President’s Export Council, which was formed in 2010 to advise U.S. President Barack Obama on export enhancement and ways to encourage companies to increase exports and enter new markets. He previously served as co-chairman of the Washington Competitiveness Council, and sat on the advisory boards of NASA, the University of Washington, the University of Kansas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of England’s Royal Academy of Engineering. For a selection of articles about Alan Mulally visit https://theengineunderthehood.substack.com/p/alan-mulallys-engine Alan Mulally Biography Work Is Love Made Visible: A Collection of Essays About the Power of Finding Your Purpose from the World’s Greatest Thought Leaders, Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith, Sarah McArthur, foreword Alan Mulally. “A Conversation with Alan Mulally about His “Working Together”© Strategic, Operational, and Stakeholder-Centered Management System,” Alan Mulally and Sarah McArthur, Leader to Leader, Volume 104. The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility: Thriving Organizations - Great Results, foreword and chapter by Alan Mulally about how leader humility enables and nurtures effective working together by great teams, Marilyn Gist, PhD. Lessons from Leaders, Marshall Goldsmith, Sam Shriver, Kathy McDermott. “To Serve Is to Live” “Engineer of the Year Alan Mulally” Lawrence D. Maloney, Design News, March 4, 1996. Twenty-First Century Jet: The Making and Marketing of the Boeing 777, Book and Video, Karl Sabbagh. American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company, Bryce Hoffman. “American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company” Summary, Brady Pyle, Out of This World Leadership. Willow Creek-Working Together, Alan Mulally, September 8, 2016. “The Elevated Leader: Level Up Your Leadership Through Vertical Development,” an Gottfredson, Morgan James Publishing, October 2022. “Former CEO Alan Mulally Is Who CEOs Need to Be Today,” Article + Video, Dan Pontefract, Forbes, July 2022. Working Together: 12 Principles for Achieving Excellence in Managing Projects, Teams and Organizations, James Lewis. “How to Become a Game-Changing Leader,” Doug Ready, Alan Mulally, MIT Sloan Management Review, Fall 2017, Vol. 59 No. 1, pp. 63-71. “Working Together” Leadership and Management System to Create Value for All the Stakeholders and the Greater Good, The Forum Club Interview with Alan Mulally, January 24, 2023