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Podcast: The StoryBank
Episode: Episode 65 – Alan Mulally – The Ford Traffic Light
Description: Send us Fan MailEver heard of the watermelon effect?I was introduced to the term a few years ago and it makes sense. The name has to be understood quite literally. Describe a watermelon. Besides being a fruit, round, and full of seeds, it is green outside – but red inside.And that is exactly WHERE the name comes from. The watermelon effect is what happens when employees dare not tell management what they really think and how it really goes. Instead, they colour all the measurements green, as if everything is going gr...