Business leaders in the US
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Topic: Business leaders in the US
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Subject: Business leaders in the US
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2021 at 1:14pm
If you find history of business a thing you like this site has some great articles on individuals who have created some outstanding companies in the US
Many management scholars consider Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. as the greatest business leader in American history. If we exclude company founders, Sloan has few peers among those who led companies they did not found. After running a smaller company for twenty years, he sold the company to General Motors (GM). Sloan became President of GM in 1923 and continued in active leadership until 1956.
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Life lesson: If you’re being chased by a lion, you’re on a horse, to the left of you is a giraffe and on the right is a unicorn, what do you do? You stop drinking and get off the carousel.
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Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2021 at 1:16pm
Here is another story from the same site . Today, cars come in every color in the rainbow, and then some. It is easy to forget that the automobile must function in a wide range of environments. The engine, brakes, steering, transmission, radio, and everything else must work when the temperature inside the car crosses 120, and they must work at thirty below zero. The paint (or “coatings”) on the car must be able to withstand ice, snow, sun, mud, rocks, dents, and bird poop without flaking or cracking. Few paint applications require as much durability and longevity.
The first automobiles were made like horse-drawn carriages, carts, and wagons, sometimes by the same companies like wagon giant Studebaker, or founded by people from the carriage industry, such as General Motors’ founder William C. “Billy” Durant. Similarly, the first cars were built on a wooden frame and painted with bright, colorful lacquers and finishes.
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Life lesson: If you’re being chased by a lion, you’re on a horse, to the left of you is a giraffe and on the right is a unicorn, what do you do? You stop drinking and get off the carousel.
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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2021 at 1:55pm
I watch the HISTORY CHannel on TV... CARS that built America.... MEN that built America.. etc... YEP, those are Great History Lessons !
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Like them all, but love the "B"s.
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Posted By: Ken(MI)
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2021 at 6:04pm
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I had never heard that Durant was in the carriage business, his name in the town that headquartered his namesake company isn't the best, it was a love or hate thing, but he did donate land for a park that still bears his name, IMO he did way more for this town than Magic Johnson ever did, and was a lot smarter.
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Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2021 at 10:42pm
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I always admired Big Bill Knudsen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Knudsen" rel="nofollow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Knudsen
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