Long before Jim Hackett became CEO and president of Ford Motor Company, his leadership ability had started taking shape during his football career at Michigan.
While there in the late 1970s, he learned from his coach, Bo Schembechler, and “The Team, The Team, The Team,” went beyond a rallying cry and became deeply embedded in his soul. At Steelcase, the Grand Rapids company where Hackett was CEO, he learned from Bob Pew, the man who built the company into the world’s largest office furniture supplier.