ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about the two Successful Women Managers: Barbara Grogan and Nancy Badore. Barbara Grogan, 43, is the founder and president of Western Industrial Contractors, a $6 million millwriting firm in Denver Colorado. In 1986, Grogan added a consulting division to provide clients with estimating, scheduling, and cost-control services in all phases of the construction business. The consulting company won a $1 million contract to do the scheduling for Denver's new international airport. Millwrighting involves the moving and installation of industrial equipment. Nancy Badore is the executive director of the Ford Motor Company's Executive Development Centre, which is responsible for training the company's top two thousand managers worldwide in the "new culture" values based on quality and customer orientation. It is this new culture that is credited with enabling Ford to emerge from its near collapse in the early eighties. Nearly forty-three, Badore joined the company in 1979 as a member of the corporate employee relations staff.
