Robert J. Dewar

I was raised in the bituminous coal region of PA. Graduated from Penn State and received my MBA from the University of Southern California. I started my career at Proter and Gamble as a manager in their Duncan Hines Division. I left P&G and went to work as a supervisor at Ford Motor Company. I soon felt that the entire auto industry was destined to coallapse at some point, because you cannot manage like it is still 1930, you cannot treat people with contempt and disrespect, and you cannot sell poor quality cars in a competitive global economy. I wanted to give people a long, hard look at how we built the cars that I was certain would lose the global auto war. So I kept a daily journal of my experiences. I made copies of internal memos not meant for the eyes of outsiders. I made an extensive collection of defective parts that were routinely assembled into Ford C4 transmissions.I kept my material in my attic for 30 years, until the collapse that I was certain had to come finally arrived. Then I retrieved my material and wrote "A Savage Factory."