Who or What drives environmental policies at Visteon?
PESTILLO: I d like to think all the people at Visteon do. Our mission statement is, hopefully, a simple, clear expression. Take, as an example, waste. The determination to deal with waste embraces three things: it saves costs; it means behaving responsibly; and it also spares you having to deal with the shortcomings that you ve got at the end of the day. So if we say that the elimination of waste is an absolute objective of the Visteon corporation, that s pervasive you don t have to explain that to somebody. Beyond that, you don t have to quantify it; the guy who saves just a little is as important as the one who develops a great breakthrough. Isn’t it a challenge to communicate that to 80,000 employees in 25 different countries? PESTILLO: Sure it is, but if it s part of your essence, it gets easier. We have a simple statement, and we declare it. We are for this without qualifications. We re not for it only if we ve got the time or if we have anything left at the end of the quarter. We
