Ford: Mulally's One Ford and Psychological Safety

Alan Mulally took over Ford in 2006 with the company burning cash and mortgaging assets to survive. He installed a weekly Business Plan Review where every executive color-coded their projects green, yellow, or red. For weeks, every single chart came back green, while the company was on track to lose billions. Mulally asked, out loud, whether anything at all was going wrong. Silence. Then one executive finally showed a red, and braced to be made an example of.

This case sharpens what it actually takes to get the truth onto the table before problems compound underground. Status meetings everywhere are full of managed narratives, not real signal. Open the app to study the moment a culture flipped, and to test how safe it really is for someone on your team to show you a red.