“Think about just exceeding expectations of every job you're being asked to do. Continually ask for feedback on how it's going. Ask everybody involved what you can do to do an even better job, and the world will beat down your door trying to ask you to do more and more.”

American aerospace engineer and manufacturing executive

Alan Mulally is an American aerospace engineer and manufacturing executive. He served as chief executive of Boeing Commercial Airplanes from 1998 to 2006 and later led Ford Motor Company as president and chief executive officer from 2006 to 2014. Mulally is known for his leadership in large-scale industrial organizations, first in aviation and then in the automobile industry. His career is closely associated with managing complex engineering and manufacturing operations at two of the best-known American companies.