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小编给你一个美联英语官方免费试听课申请链接： /test/waijiao.aspx?tid=16-73675-0 美联英语提供：英语短新闻 重塑福特 Mark Fields was fond of saying that Ford Motor Company needed to keep “one foot in the present and one foot in the future”. Mr Fields lost his footing entirely this week and was fired as Ford’s chief executive. 马克?菲尔茨(Mark Fields)喜欢说，福特汽车公司(Ford Motor Company)必须“一只脚踩在现在，另一只脚迈向未来”。如今他完全失去了立足点，因为他被解除了福特首席执行官一职。 The man chosen to take his place is Jim Hackett, former chief executive of Steelcase, the Midwestern office furniture company one 50th of the size of Ford by revenues. Mr Hackett made his name by remodelling Steelcase, then temporarily heading the University of Michigan抯 ailing athletics programme and deftly recruiting a star coach for the Wolverines football team. 被选中接替他职位的是吉姆?哈克特(Jim Hackett)。哈克特曾担任美国中西部办公家具公司Steelcase的首席执行官，后者收入仅为福特的50分之一。哈克特因重组Steelcase出名，接着他曾短暂担任密歇根大学(University of Michigan)陷入困境的体育项目的负责人，并巧妙地为密歇根大学狼獾足球队(Wolverines)聘请到了一位明星教练。 So, Mr Hackett is big in Michigan. Whether his talents are sufficient to match Henry Ford’s self-confident declaration in 1925 that his eponymous company was “large in scope as well as great in purpose”, having “dared to try out the untried with conspicuous success”, is another matter. 因此，哈克特在密歇根很有名气。但他的才能是否配得上1925年亨利?福特(Henry Ford)发出的充满自信的宣言，就是另外一回事了。福特当时声称，他的同名公司“规模庞大而且目标远大”，“敢于尝试没有尝试过的事情，并大获成功”。 The first hurdle is working under Bill Ford, scion of the family and chairman of Ford, which has been through four leaders in 16 years. It dismissed Jacques Nasser in 2001 and then Mr Ford stepped down as chief executive in 2006 to make way for Alan Mulally, who produced “One Ford” from its rivalrous operating divisions. 第一个障碍是在福特家族成员、福特公司董事长比尔?福特(Bill Ford)手下工作。福特公司在16年里轮换了4位掌舵人。2001年雅克?纳赛尔(Jacques Nasser)被免职，2006年比尔?福特卸任首席执行官，让位给艾伦?穆拉利(Alan Mulally)，后者针对各部门竞争激烈的状况提出了“一个福特”(One Ford)战略。 Mr Fields, a 28-year veteran of Ford’s hierarchical and often inward-looking culture, took over in 2014 and has lasted three years — about the cycle time to design,