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1) Henry Ford
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Explore the life and achievements of Henry Ford. Photographs, a timeline, and easy-to-read text tell the story of this great automobile maker who started the Ford Motor Company.
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The great Henry Ford was the unforgettable American captain of industry and unequalled business magnate who founded the Ford Motor Company and the unequalled force behind the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. Here, in this unique and very accessible audiobook, Ford tells his own story. A must for businessmen everywhere and a lauded addition to all school and university systems. A true audio treasure!
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Anyone can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product. The lessons of Henry Ford, one of America's greatest business innovators, are as fresh and vital today as they were in 1922, when this extraordinary book was first published. Ford explains: how his experiences as an employee influenced his philosophies as an employer. It's easy to see that much of Ford's wisdom has been, forgotten today and that individual...
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"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."
"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success."
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." Henry Ford
The great Henry Ford was the unforgettable American captain of industry and unequalled business magnate who founded the Ford Motor Company and the unequalled force behind the development...
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Your guide for this audio course is celebrated history professor Jeff Webb, voted Teacher of the Year at Huntington University. Each captivating lecture guides you through a different facet of Henry Ford's life and accomplishments.
Few industrial leaders rival Ford in their contributions to America's global economic leadership, yet his life and views remain deeply controversial. Follow Ford's path from his modest upbringing on a rural Michigan farm...
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Vous aimez les Success Story? Si oui, vous n'allez pas être déçu! Rien ne prédestinait Henry Ford à devenir une figure iconique de l'histoire moderne. Parti de rien, fils d'agriculteur, il est devenu le premier millionnaire américain! Aujourd'hui encore son nom rime avec "The Best American Car"! Vous voulez connaître les étapes qui l'ont conduit à ce succès, les obstacles qu'il a rencontrés et surmontés, apprendre de quelqu'un qui sait...
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Henry Ford, né le 30 juillet 1863 à Dearborn (Michigan, États-Unis) et mort le 7 avril 1947 dans la même ville, est un industriel américain et le fondateur de l'automobile qui porte son nom. La Ford T produite à plus de 16 millions d'exemplaires fut une prouesse technique pour l'époque et reste jusqu'à ce jour "A Case Study"! Comment ce fils d'agriculteur parti de rien a fait pour en arriver là? Quelles sont les étapes qui l'ont conduit...
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Vous aimez les Success Story ? Si oui, vous n'allez pas être déçu! Rien ne prédestinait Henry Ford à devenir une figure iconique de l'histoire moderne. Parti de rien, fils d'agriculteur, il est devenu le premier millionnaire américain! Aujourd'hui encore son nom rime avec "The Best American Car"! Vous voulez connaître les étapes qui l'ont conduit à ce succès, les obstacles qu'il a rencontrés et surmontés, apprendre de quelqu'un qui sait...
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Henry Ford et John D. Rockefeller sont deux américains qui ont fait fortune à partir de rien! Le premier a donné son nom au modèle T, une voiture produite à plus de 16 millions d'exemplaires! Comment ce fils d'agriculteur a fait pour en arriver là ? Quelles sont les étapes qui l'ont conduit à devenir le premier milliardaire des États-Unis ? Qu'est-ce qu'un entrepreneur moderne peut apprendre de lui aujourd'hui pour démarrer et développer...
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Describes the friendship between the two inventors and how Thomas Edison's advice to the young Henry Ford inspired Ford to work on his automobiles until he came up with an inexpensive, reliable version which became the Model T.
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"From an acclaimed popular historian comes a fresh, meticulous, and entertaining account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model-T--the machine that defined the dawning age in America. Every century or so, our republic has been changed by a new technology: 170 years ago it was the railroad; today it's the microprocessor. But in the early twentieth century it was the gasoline-combustion engine, built by a young, unknown, industrious man named...
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"In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist John Burroughs visited Thomas Edison in Florida and toured the Everglades. The following year Ford, Edison, and tire maker Harvey Firestone joined together on a summer camping trip and decided to call themselves the Vagabonds. They would continue their summer road trips until 1925, when they announced that their fame made it too difficult for them to carry on. Although the Vagabonds traveled with an entourage of...
16) Tractor wars: John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, and the birth of modern agriculture
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"With all the bitterness and drama of the race between Ford, Dodge, and General Motors, Tractor Wars is the untold story of industry stalwarts and disruptors, inventors, and administrators racing to invent modern agriculture-a power farming revolution that would usher in a whole new world"--
18) Unconventional Leadership: What Henry Ford and Detroit Taught Me about Reinvention and Diversity
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What does it take to lead the successful turnaround of four consecutive organizations? What does it take to run a $5 billion business in Detroit as the city struggles to emerge from municipal bankruptcy and its worst ongoing crisis ever? What does it take to be a female CEO who has come up against discrimination and personal attack? It takes Unconventional Leadership, a style of leadership based on confronting reality and leading headlong through...
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The Four Trials of Henry Ford chronicles Henry Ford's forays into landmark litigation during the early years of the twentieth century. Ford was a man of extraordinary genius in the intricacies and workings of mechanical objects and in the identification and hiring of talented engineers and administrative managers. But he was constitutionally unable to permit a light to shine on anyone other than himself and often employed humiliating tactics to terminate...
20) Ragtime
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War.
The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous...
Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War.
The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous...