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Iacocca

k control and went to his boss and saidthere is no point in me finishing the training course and that my masters degree from Princetonwas equivalent to the second nine-months of training. That was when they decided to let him atleast interview for a sales position. Although he thought that it wouldnt be hard to get a job insales with his experience, he soon found he was wrong. The first interview he was at the mannever even gave him a second glance and booted him right out the door. The second interviewmade him think, the man actually gave him a change a looked him over like checking to see if histie was straight and so on until he finally got the job that he was working so hard to get.As soon a he hit the sales department everything went sky high. Everybody loved him andhis views that ended up making him the number two person in the company. He just talked andworked his way up to the top, never expecting that his boss, Henry Ford Jr., had it in for him. Henry Ford Jr. was the number one guy at Ford after taking his grandfathers place in hiscompany. Mr. Ford did not really know what he was doing or why when he first came into thecompany. When Mr. Iacocca made his way to the top he was proud and so was Mr. Ford. Mr.Ford thought , just like Mr. Iacocca did, that Mr. Iacocca was going to be at the top for a while. He was at the top for a while until Mr. Ford got the idea the pretty soon Mr. Iacocca was goingto try to take over the whole company all together, which was the totally wrong idea, and decidedit was the end of the Iacocca era at Ford.When Mr. Iacocca lost his job he was expecting it in a way but at the same time he wasnt. It kind came as a shock to him as well as the media and the world. Mr. Iacocca was just thenumber two man in a number two company and now he was nothing. For a while after this eventnobody who had anything to do with the Ford motor company was even allowed to talk to him. If they did come in contact a...

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