My Forty Years with Ford (Great Lakes Books Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (912 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081433279X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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In My Forty Years with Ford, Charles Sorensen-sometimes known as "Henry Ford's man," sometimes as "Cast-iron Charlie"-tells his own story, and it is as challenging as it is historic. Here Sorensen provides an eyewitness account of the birth of the Model T, the early conflicts with the Dodge brothers, the revolutionary announcement of the five-dollar day, and Sorensen's development of the moving assembly line-a concept that changed our world. My Forty Years with Ford is both a personal history of a business empire and a revelation that moves with excitement and the power of tragedy.. When labor difficulties mounted and Edsel's fatal illness was upon him, Sorensen sided with Edsel against Henry Ford and Harry Bennett, and he insisted that Henry Ford II be brought in to direct the company despite the aging founder's determination that no one but he hold the presidential reins.First published in 1956, My Forty Years with Ford has now been reissued in paperback for the first time. Although Sorensen conceived, designed, and built the giant Will
A rare glimpse inside the start of one the all time industrial greats Ignoti et quasi occulti If you like business histories your normal challenge is to find books written by or about the founder or management during the years of your interest (in my case the first 40 years or so).Charlie Sorenson kept diaries and was a key man during the first forty years of Ford.This book gives you a real life picture of a company that accomplished incredible feats in spite of its critical flaws.The management style of Ford during the first 40 years is completely different than say GM (read the Alfred Sloan book for comparison).It is fun to see that there is more than one way that people go abou. dmmacphee said Great read, make sme appreciate the hard work ethic America once had. Interesting insight inside the Ford Motor Company.. A classic book on Ford history Eduardo Roma Burgos Charles E. Sorensen's book tells the history of Ford Motor Company as lived by a person who had one of the biggest influences on it. The book is referenced in many other Ford books.Eduardo Roma Burgos.
It is a story of Mr. "My story is about the Henry Ford I knew as well as any man alive or dead knew him. Ford's greatest success and his most tragic failure." . It is, however, the story that I, Charles Sorensen, was privileged to see of Henry Ford and his works. It is not story of Charles Sorensen. It is about the fabulous growth and preservation of the ford Motor Company, which, in his shaken old age, not even its owner could destroy. It is about the creation and birth in that company of what has been the miracle of the Twentieth Century: the modern American industrial system of mass production with its moving assembly line