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Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built |
Author: Richard S. Tedlow
Published: 2003-07-01 |
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 I loved this book
Very insightful and informative. Very much worth your time to read.
I'd love to see follow up with more profiles on prominent business leaders.
Great Business History Book
The stories in this book were so amazing and motivational. The author of this book is excellent. I loved the commentary throughout the book, filling in speculations when there was no information. You can definitely tell that Tedlow did a lot of research. This book is great for anyone who is insterested in building a business in any area. The men profiled in this book built businesses that ranged from retail to developing makeup to manufacturing computers/microprocessors. This is an excellent read that brings out thre great points - leadership, dedication and passion are the foundation of a successful business!
 interesting stories
interesting stories on various historical business leaders from Carnegie, Ford, etc. May be a bit biased.
 A reasonable work
I read this book, translated to portuguese, here in Brazil.This book has seven short biographies of seven famous Businessmen and americans.This book has many good informations.
Unfortunatelly, the author made some failures.
To example, Andrew Carnegie was a deep eugenist.He was also one of the biggests money's suplyer to eugenics movement.This fact isn't showed in this book.
Another example is Henry Ford.This book claims that he helped [...].Correct, but the Germany's Ford had a jew as Ford's join.The USSR had a politic of having business with only [...] friends.This fact also isn't showed in this book.
After all this is a reasonable book.
 not a biography, it's an interpretation
I was extremely dissappointed to be reading the liberal version of these mens lives. The author makes some ridiculous claims and he omits very important aspects of these mens lives. He makes little mention of Carnegie's philanthropic endeavors like his promotion of public libraries. He accuses Ford of helping Hitler, "Hitlers's ability to cite such a prominent figure as having views similar to his could only have helped him."
I have only red the chapters on the first three men and I am not sure if I am going to read the rest. This book should be titled "psychology of giants of enterprise" rather than "seven business innovators and the empires they built." The author barely talks about there actual business and ignores there philanthropy. Except for Carnegie in which he said, "Before we can understand how such a shrewd man could transform himself into a clown, it is worthwhile contemplating how Carnegie lived..." Talking about Carnegie's desire to promote peace "He was worse than a failure; he was a fool."
The chapter with Eastman opens on his suicide and then he tries to explain why he committed suicide. I thought that I was going to get a book about great men and their business enterprises, but I got a psychological interpretation of these mens problems and struggles.
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