They are called “industrial statesmen” for the great economic power they helped America become. At the same time, they are regarded as “robber barons” because they built their great wealth by abusing the system, abusing employees, and destroying their competitors to satisfy their own needs. They grew America, but brought down many on their path. Document F is concentrated on John D. Rockefeller. A great man, really, in charge of having possibly the biggest oil refinery company in the world.
He rarely cared for anything else outside of his very small circle. Edison wanted to make a profit, but his true goal was to make a difference and create a monster legacy that will live through the ages. While developing an industrial research lab, the first of its kind, he was surprised about the reception it received. With that recognition his drive towards the future with more inventions grew heavy. The light bulb was already developed Edison just made the necessary improvement by adding filament to make it more efficient and less of a drag on the energy grid.
Until his spectacular arrest on drug charges in Los Angeles in October 1982, John Zachary DeLorean had enjoyed astonishing success. Born into a working class family, he proved an exemplary student, going on to become the golden boy of General Motors who single-handedly saved their Pontiac division, and whose marketing wizardry provided American youths with their muscle cars. Then, almost at the top of General Motors, DeLorean suddenly resigned apparently in disgust at the immorality of big business. He then set out to build his own “ethical car”, eventually deciding to take over a Belfast site and successfully persuading the British Government to back him with 97 million dollars. Suddenly, this American dream became an incredible nightmare.
Carl demonstrated meager planning, implementation, and unwieldiness to follow-through with his assigned duties. It appears that Carl Robins is not qualified or trained properly to do his job successfully. This issue may have been averted by establishing a systematic leadership and mentoring plan by ABC, Inc. to train and advise their new employees. Several issues stand out immediately. New employees did not have the required forms completed and their transcripts were not on file.
Kay Lay was the CEO for many years. The number one mistake he made was to hire Jeffrey Skilling. Although he was brilliant at his field, Skilling was unqualified for the job. Ken Lay also let everything slip through. I do not consider him being the master mind of all the dishonest moves but he hired the people to do it for him.
This backfired on the company and they franticly did everything they could to match what Bratz was selling to their old customers. They failed to conform to the changing of the times where other companies took advantage and started to become very lucrative off of Mattel’s stubbornness. There were several cognitive errors that Mattel made over the course of time that contributed to these decisions. Some of the errors are ego-defensiveness, illusion of control and cognitive dissonance. The company thought that since they had a lock on the competition for decades that they did not have to change anything and they would remain
Golding does not use a leader to represent Piggy, When Golding created the book he made it so that Piggy was an outcast but he knew what was right. Golding creates three main leaders in his novel Ralph, Jack, and Piggy but they did not become leaders by birth they became leaders through the circumstances they were put through, Ralph became leader by votes but why did Ralph get voted leader? The boys ended up following Jack but why did they? Piggy did not follow anybody he made his own rules, why was Piggy a real leader all
This case describes problems with constructing cellular towers which would cause dysfunction of the company and inability to meet the turn-on deadline. Erik Peterson was not that effective in managing and leading his team which is shown by negative relations among team members and miscommunication was present between him and the rest of the team. There was no mutual trust and there was a lack of motivation among team members. One thing that slowed Erik down was his lack of experience in the cellular industry. Without the knowledge about how specific industry works, it is very hard to manage and lead the team to progress and be successful.
This is especially detrimental because the information the graduates were presented with was incomplete and poorly composed . To add insult to injury, credit hours earned at ITT Tech are not transferrable to any school other than another ITT Tech campus . The debt
He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing offlimits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against.