My Life in Steel
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (604 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1891231650 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 294 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Age Old Wisdom." according to Anthony Toupuissant. At the first start of reading the book, it left me pondering on a couple of questions. The first one which pertained to the Great Depression Era - and why the author made little mention of it, but as I was pulled more into the book I realized later why he choose to speak little of it. This book was not designed for the reader to bask in the doom and gloom of that time, although a brief depiction of it would have been welcomed from this
Time and again, Mr. My Life in Steel is more than a history; it is a guide for the future of American business. And he outlines the implementation of his ideas and ideals within the companies he managed. "Fight for the folks at the bottom. And his third belief was that a company should always strive to make a better product than the competition, and a lasting product line that offers something new every year. He chronicles his move from unionist to industrialist in Pittsburgh's burgeoning steel industry. In his meticulously research
I have been the chief executive officer of all except the first one-an integrated basic steel company-where I was the executive vice president. From 1933 through mid 1946 I worked intimately with steel and metal workers, helped develop joint programs between their unions and management, and learned what the managers had to do to learn from them, and why so many so often could not adapt. The second fundamental is that those who make
These years (1939-1941) of my association with Harvard enriched my understanding of what I was doing in the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC), which in 1942 became the United Steelworkers of America. I set forth the essence of the capitalist labor position in 1939 and 1940 in two Harvard Business Review articles. At the end of June I resigned from the United Steelworkers of America; Golden resigned the next day. It was translated into German and Italian editions and reissued in hardback in 1973 by DeCapo Press. Elton Mayo instructed me on this basic beginning in February 1939 when I joined the Committee on Work in Industry of the National Research Council, a group that was appointed in December 193