Autocratic leadership advantages and disadvantages
Democratic leadership.
Ford was notably a pascifist during World War I, and in his personal life was a conspiracy theorist and anti-Semite. Ford bought an obscure weekly newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, which was distributed at every Ford franchise nationwide and had more than 700,000 readers, where Ford’s writings made him a spokesman for religious prejudice and political extremism.
Despite his faults, Ford had an uncanny knack for business and built a tremendously successful company with key leadership principles:
Efficiency is key. In 1913 Ford launched the first moving assembly line.
The technique decreased the amount of time it took to build a car from 12 hours down to under three. Ford continued to innovate with the conveyor belt—enabling one worker to produce what used to take four.
Autocratic leadership
Ford continued to innovate in techniques connecting pistons and rods. In a 9-hour workday this activity took so long that over four hours were wasted on walking. By dividing the process and