Soper's Focus: Career Security
By Daniel Schoonmaker
Published: April 11, 2005
Ken Soper calls job security in today’s marketplace an “aberration.” DUTTON — When the consolidation of two Ford Motor Co. engineering divisions eliminated his father’s position in 1956, Soper Taber Group Principal Ken Soper had his first exposure to downsizing.

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