My Life and Work - An Autobiography of Henry Ford | 
 enlarge | Author: Henry Ford
Publisher: NuVision Publications
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Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 1595478752
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.2092
EAN: 9781595478757
ASIN: 1595478752
Publication Date: July 8, 2007
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Henry Ford spent most of his life making headlines, good, bad, but never indifferent. Celebrated as both a technological genius and a folk hero, Ford was the creative force behind an industry of unprecedented size and wealth that in only a few decades permanently changed the economic and social character of the United States. When young Ford left his father's farm in 1879 for Detroit, only two out of eight Americans lived in cities; when he died at age 83, the proportion was five out of eight. Once Ford realized the tremendous part he and his Model T automobile had played in bringing about this change, he wanted nothing more than to reverse it, or at least to recapture the rural values of his boyhood. Henry Ford, then, is an apt symbol of the transition from an agricultural to an industrial America.
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Management Classics September 20, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Henry Ford is the classical writer on management. He stands on a same line with Sun Tzu, Niccolo Machiavelli, Robert Owen, Frederick Taylor and Henri Fayol.
This is the foundation of all the management literature, and every modern manager should be aware with the works of the authors above mentioned.
In the book "My Life and Work", Henry Ford presents his view on different things: management philosophy, social life, human abilities and capabilities, the role of the bankers in the production, good debt and bad debt, the labor and the speculation, the roots of poverty and the ways to solve it, the role of the government, and other important topics.
You will also find an autobiography in this book, but there is a lot of things that Henry Ford avoids in this book, e.g. how did he took the controlling stake in the Ford Motor Company. He didn't write in the book that he have started another company, Henry Ford and Son, and made a show of taking himself and his best employees to the new company; the goal was to scare the remaining holdout stockholders of the Ford Motor Company to sell their stakes to him before they lost most of their value. The ruse worked, and Henry and his son purchased all remaining stock from the other investors, thus giving the family sole ownership of the company.
My Life and Work by Henry Ford July 14, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
A great insight into Henry Fords' way of doing business. Of course hindsight is 20-20 and Ford tells of his secrets to success with the Model T. A good reference for the automotive historian or budding entrepeneur.
The best business book ever written April 13, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Anyone who has read "My Life and Work" will understand exactly what is wrong with our country today. There are three ways to create wealth--grow it, mine it, or make it--and activities like flipping houses or trading carbon credits do not qualify.
Ford developed what is now known as the Toyota production system, and readers will see a very explicit description of just in time manufacturing (and its benefits) in "My Life and Work."
Ford also summarized effective labor relations in one sentence: "It ought to be the employer's ambition, as leader, to pay better wages than any similar line of business, and it ought to be the workman's ambition to make this possible."
Awesome Dude. January 1, 2008
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
I'll just say this about Ford. He was absolutely the greatest industrial mind off ALL TIMES.
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