{"id":2293,"date":"2006-04-19T21:07:55","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T21:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2293"},"modified":"2006-04-19T21:07:55","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T21:07:55","slug":"corporate_risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2293","title":{"rendered":"Corporate &#8220;Risk Taking&#8221; and the Ford Mustang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetruthaboutcars.com\/content\/11454903471660478567\/index.php\">Bob Elton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>So what happened to <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?query=%22Chris+Theodore%22\">Theodore<\/a>? Promoted, given new projects, made a product spokesman like GM&#8217;s Bob Lutz? Theodore was, as they say, &ldquo;eased out.&#8221; Making great cars, even making great cars that make money, are not qualifications for longevity in Ford&#8217;s corporate community. Break the rules and you&#8217;re out the door.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Elton: So what happened to Theodore? Promoted, given new projects, made a product spokesman like GM&#8217;s Bob Lutz? Theodore was, as they say, &ldquo;eased out.&#8221; Making great cars, even making great cars that make money, are not qualifications for longevity in Ford&#8217;s corporate community. Break the rules and you&#8217;re out the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}