Biography Lee Jacock

Born on October 15 in Allentaun, Pennsylvania - died on July 2. American manager manager, author of several autobiographical bestsellers. He was the president of Ford and Chairman of the Board of Corporation Chrysler. Lee Jacock was born in the town of Allentaun, the state of Pennsylvania in the family of Italian immigrants. In the year, Jacock fell as rheumatism, in those days the disease was considered almost incurable, but Lee subsequently recovered.

Due to the disease, Lee Jacock was not taken into the army. At the end of the school, the Yakocka entered the Likhai University of English. Lehigh University. After some time, he was invited to study at Princeton University. At the end of Princeton University, the Jacocks began working at Ford as an engineer, after some time he switched to managerial work.

By that time, the appearance of the name “Lee”, due to the fact that in telephone conversations he began to reduce his name Lido “Lido”, as he wrote in his memoirs, was associated with the Americans of that time with the slang name of a public house. After some time, Jacock managed to become one of the directors of the company. Under the leadership of the Yakocki, a popular Ford Mustang car was developed.

He also took an active part in the organization of work on the introduction of low -profile front -wheel drive cars, one of which was Ford Fiesta. In the same years, he made a significant contribution to the promotion of consumer car loans. The reasons for the dismissal of Jacock talks in an autobiography, and in his opinion, this happened due to the fact that he began to become more popular than Henry Ford himself.

The situation around the Ford Pinto of the model year could be the real reason: due to the compactness of the car and the unsuccessful location of the gas tank in the rear collision, gasoline could be detonated. Lee Jacock was considered the main culprit, as he was aware of the potential danger of the design of a car, which manifested itself in the most terrible way. In the end, the Ford company, under the pressure of the public in the summer of G., a month later, Jacock was dismissed from the company.

Soon after the dismissal from Ford Jacock, a proposal was received by the head of the Chrysler Corporation, which was at that time on the verge of bankruptcy. He headed the corporation up to a year. In the 10ths, the Yakockka writes ICOCCA: An Autobiography in Russian was released under the name “Career of the Manager”, which was repeatedly processed and reprinted, later wrote several more memoir books.

In the memoirs, he sharply and frankly talks about Henry Ford II, the grandson of the founder of Ford, and about relations in the company, talks in detail about his life and explains his motivation when making fateful decisions for Ford and Chrysler. He died on July 2.