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Good morning, and welcome to the Year of the Pig.

There's a story in the new issue of The Atlantic with the provocative title: "Why Ford Hired a Furniture Maker as CEO." It's about Jim Hackett, who was CEO of Steelcase before joining Ford. But what it's really about is "design thinking"--a discipline embraced by Hackett and pioneered by design firm IDEO. (You can re-read Adam Lashinsky's 2017 Hackett profile here--it touches many of the same themes.)

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Mentioned Entities

The World Bank Group

Financial Times Group Ltd.

Maxwell Technologies, Inc.

Google, Inc.

David Malpass

IDEO.org

James P. Hackett

Anthony Michael Fadell

Donald John Trump, Sr.

Adam Lashinsky

Margaret Stewart

Tesla, Inc.

Huawei Culture Co., Ltd.