The People's Tycoon

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1. eatonphilJul 2023
   Here are some histories of specific industries I've read recently and supremely enjoyed:

   - The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

   - The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production-- Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry

   - Empires of the Sky: Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men's Epic Duel to Rule the World

   - Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (of all of these not the most amazing but still interesting)

   - The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty that Armed Germany at War

   And then you can learn a lot by reading about the people who built the industries too. Here are a few I've been reading about recently that I recommend:

   - Edison by Edmund Morris (Just read it backwards, you'll see.)

   - Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow

   - The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century by Steven Watts

   - Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler

   I also got some interesting suggestions asking a similar question on Twitter a bit ago.

   https://twitter.com/eatonphil/status/1668625835350454273

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2. HamptonFoundersJul 2023
   Not sure if this is helpful, but a friend fed this conversation through ChatGPT and had it summarize for easier reading:

   -The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy -Bigger by Marc Levinson

   -The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production-- Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos

   -Empires of the Sky: Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men's Epic Duel to Rule the World by Erik Larson

   -Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard -White

   -The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty that Armed Germany at War by William Manchester

   -Edison by Edmund Morris

   -Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow

   -The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century by Steven Watts

   -Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler

   -The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage

   -The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick

   -Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael S. Malone

   -The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester

   -The Innovators by Walter Isaacson

   -Medieval Technology and Social Change by Lynn White Jr.

   -The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner

   -Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Study of Early Modern Physics by Eric H. Chaney

   -Early Electrical Communication by A. F. Marland

   -Bibliographical History of Electricity and Magnetism by Silvanus P. Thompson

   -Electric Science: Its History, Phenomena, and Applications by J. J. Fahie

   -The History and Present State of Electricity by Andrew Ure

   -https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

   -De Re Metallica by Georgius Agricola

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3. wushuporkDec 2015
   Traction by Justin Mares, Gabriel Weinberg - would probably reread

   Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday

   How to Fail at Almost Everything by Scott Adams - great read Scaling Up By Verne Harnish

   Great By Choice by Jim Collins - love the whole series

   The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes - probably worth a reread

   How to Win at the Sport of Business By Mark Cuban - good read

   Elon Mush by Ashlee Vance - need I say more

   The Hard Thing about Hard Things By Ben Horowitz

   The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg - probably need to deeply absorb this - a lot of good stuff

   Copy This! By Paul Orfalea - another good "small business" entrepreneur book

   The E-Myth Revisited By Michael Gerber - 2nd time read. Got more out of it this time.

   The People's Tycoon (Ford) by Steven Watts - I love reading about businessmen from this age

   Scrum by JJ Sutherland Jeff Sutherland - good read for development teams

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4. vena903May 2008
   http://www.amazon.com/Peoples-Tycoon-Henry-American-Century/... The People's Tycoon - Henry Ford and the American Century. He was a lot of things people didn't realize he was and wasn't a lot things people want to believe he was.
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