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The change makers, from Carnegie to Gates : how the great entrepreneurs transformed ideas into industries, Maury Klein

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-303) and index

contains biographical information

index present

non fiction

The change makers

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Maury Klein

"Entrepreneurs, even more than inventors, are essential to American business. While inventors produce ideas, entrepreneurs get things done, build the markets, and make the ideas a reality. For over a century, we have lionized and demonized them: the robber barons, the industrial statesmen, the tech revolutionaries. But what creative talents do the legendary American entrepreneurs share, and what can you learn from them about business success?" "Maury Klein analyzes how innovators from Andrew Carnegie to Bill Gates triumphed over perennial challenges in planning and strategy, production, operations, staffing, and sales - and transformed entire industries. Klein reveals the artistry and archetype of successful entrepreneurialism, comparing the retailing acumen of J.C. Penney and Wal-Mart's Sam Walton, the organizational ingenuity of Standard Oil's John D. Rockefeller and Intel's Robert Noyce, the imaginative marketing of General Motors' Alfred Sloan and McDonald's Ray Kroc. He explores the products and the markets that inspired them, the rivalries and the mentorships that pushed them, and the talents and the tempers that fueled them, culminating in an insightful examination of the birth of American industry, the growth of the corporation, and the revival of entrepreneurialism at the beginning of the twenty-first century."--Jacket

from Carnegie to Gates : how the great entrepreneurs transformed ideas into industries

Prologue: Say good-bye to the robber barons -- The enigma of creativity -- Portrait of the entrepreneur as a young man -- The entrepreneurs and their visions -- The talents of the great entrepreneurs -- The entrepreneurs at work -- Follies and foibles -- All in the family -- The law and the higher law -- The entrepreneurs off duty -- Epilogue: Profiling the great entrepreneur