Category: Business Greats

Walter Isaacson’s “The Innovators: how a group of hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution” may be his most ambitious project yet. Unlike his award-winning biographies, “The Innovators” is a thematic history of the Information Age. The whole story is indeed complex and convoluted, beginning with the inspirations of Charles Babbage and Lady Ada…

There haven’t been many men like Howard Hughes, and I suppose that’s why he is the subject of a nearly 700-page biography. “Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness” by Donald Barlett and James Steele, first published just a few years after the famed industrialist’s death in 1976, is a sweeping, often plodding, and generally critical…

“With the possible exception of Henry Ford,” Tom Peters wrote in his landmark book “Search for Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies” (1982), “Sam Walton is the entrepreneur of the century.” That’s pretty high praise – and well-deserved. The story of Sam Walton and his kingdom of giant, low-priced Walmart stores is incredible on multiple…