Category: Business Greats
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (2014) by Walter Isaacson
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…
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Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness (2004) by Donald Barlett and James Steele
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…
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Sam Walton: Made in America (1992) by Sam Walton
“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…