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亨利·福特:我的生活与工作·补录 262

亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导

We shut down in December with the intention of opening again in about two weeks. We found so much to do that actually we did not open for nearly six weeks. The moment that we shut down the rumours concerning our financial condition became more and more active. I know that a great many people hoped that we should have to go out after money--for, were we seeking money, then we should have to come to terms. We did not ask for money. We did not want money. We had one offer of money. An officer of a New York bank called on me with a financial plan which included a large loan and in which also was an arrangement by which a representative of the bankers would act as treasurer and take charge of the finance of the company. Those people meant well enough, I am quite sure. We did not want to borrow money but it so happened that at the moment we were without a treasurer. To that extent the bankers had envisaged our condition correctly. I asked my son Edsel to be treasurer as well as president of the company. That fixed us up as to a treasurer, so there was really nothing at all that the bankers could do for us.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7213
定位:Additional excerpt 262 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

福特原计划停产两周,结果事情太多,停了近六周。停产期间,关于公司财务危机的谣言愈演愈烈,很多人盼着福特不得不出去借钱,好趁机谈条件。但福特明确表示:我们不借钱,也不需要钱。期间只有一家纽约银行主动提出贷款,附带条件是银行派代表担任财务主管、掌控公司财务。福特承认对方可能出于好意,也看出公司确实缺一个财务主管,但他没有接受贷款,而是让儿子埃兹尔兼任财务主管,直接堵住了银行介入的口子。

上下文

福特公司停产整顿期间,华尔街银行试图以贷款为条件介入公司财务控制,福特用家族管理化解。

今日一问

当外部援助附带控制权条件时,你会为了钱让渡决策权,还是先想办法从内部解决?

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