¢ Lawrence native and current Ford CEO Alan Mulally is the subject of a profile in Business Week._ Just eight months into the job, Mulally is working hard to change institutional work habits that took years to develop. He wants managers to think more about customers than their own careers. He has made it a top priority to encourage his team to admit mistakes, to share more information, and to cooperate across divisions. He’s holding everybody’s feet to the fire with tough operational oversight and harsh warnings about Ford’s predicament. “We have been going out of business for 40 years,” Mulally told a group of 100 information technology staffers at a “town meeting” in February. He has repeated the message to every employee group that he has addressed._