 Meanwhile, he believed that smart managers had an incentive to do right by their workers, because doing so would maximize their own profits.Ford did acknowledge, however, that many managers were basically too bad at managing to understand this fact.But Ford believed that eventually, if good managers such as he could fend off the attacks of misguided people from both left and right (i.e., both socialists and bad-manager reactionaries), the good managers would create a socio-economic system wherein neither bad management nor bad unions could find enough support to continue existing.