By Editors Of Perseus Publishing
Attention-grabbing pics of a hundred women and men who've left an indelible mark at the enterprise landscape.
Ultimately, enterprise is set people-inventors, visionaries, brave leaders who forge new paths. Movers and Shakers brings to lifestyles a hundred women and men, who via advantage in their chutzpah and backbone equipped businesses and industries, created new methods of doing enterprise, or printed underlying truths concerning the artwork and technology of administration. From the robber barons of the early, brawny years of the 20th century to the "new economic climate" techno-wizards firstly of the twenty-first, Movers and Shakers provides short sketches of the professionals and giants who've made their indelible marks at the company panorama. that includes biographies of thinkers and writers, together with George Eastman, Andy Grove, Mary Parker Follett, Charles convenient, and Peter Drucker, this ebook unearths the defining moments that modified company history.
Colorful, incisive, and exciting, Movers and Shakers illuminates the larger-than-life figures who've, certainly, created company as we all know it this day.
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In fairness to the businessman, it should be stated that during the last twenty years he has been remarkably attentive to the needs of his employees. Broad benefit programs are now the norm for most big business organizations. Great efforts are being made to spread the work and eliminate unnecessary layoffs. Many businessmen have accepted the fact that out-of-the-ordinary medical costs, adequate insurance, and adequate provision for retirement are beyond the means of the average employee. To close these gaps, we have introduced benefit programs and are making improvements in them all the time.
Most of these comments have had to do with how I think businessmen are going to have to change their way of looking at things if this country—and its business system—are to get through the difficulties we foresee in the years ahead. Some people, I'm afraid, may have the impression that I'm so preoccupied with these larger problems of the national and public interest that I've forgotten what the first function of the businessman is—to run his business and make a success of it. Of course I haven't—not for a single moment.
It is with us and it has been with us for too many years. We've got to find some better solution to it, through business as well as government action. In fairness to the businessman, it should be stated that during the last twenty years he has been remarkably attentive to the needs of his employees. Broad benefit programs are now the norm for most big business organizations. Great efforts are being made to spread the work and eliminate unnecessary layoffs. Many businessmen have accepted the fact that out-of-the-ordinary medical costs, adequate insurance, and adequate provision for retirement are beyond the means of the average employee.