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Peter F. Drucker Boxed Set (8 Books) (The Drucker Library)
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Peter F. Drucker Boxed Set (8 Books) (The Drucker Library)

by Peter F. Drucker
November 2020
Intermediate to advanced
2440 pages
59h 3m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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CHAPTER EIGHT

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Henry Ford

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HENRY FORD’S HOLD on America’s imagination—indeed, on the imagination of the world’s masses—was not due to his fabulous financial success. And it can only partly be explained by the overwhelming impact of the automobile on our way of life. For Henry Ford was less the symbol and embodiment of new wealth and of the automobile age than the symbol and embodiment of our new industrial mass-production civilization.

He perfectly represented its success in technology and economics; he also perfectly represented its political failure so far—its failure to build an industrial order, an industrial society. The central problem of ...

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