Wedgwood: The First Tycoon
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (668 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0670033464 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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"An Innovative Commercial Master" according to Rob Hardy. There was a time when consumers had no brand names to go by, and now we have plenty of them. What was the first one? A good case could be made for the name Wedgwood, the fine pottery that has come for over two hundred years from the factory founded by Josiah Wedgwood in . A Different Potter Donald B. Siano My mother and some of my siblings worked in a pottery factory, and in my youth I went there many times and caught some glimpses of how things were done. This factory employed hundreds of workers. doing some awful, monotonous, carpal tunnel-generating routines. They made . webwiz99 said Perhaps a little overlong, but interesting.. Wedgwood was highly entrepreneurial, avid to find new methods to produce potteryand something of a dictator to work for. He was a sort of "Robber Baron" 100 yearsbefore the term existed. Still he is interesting for his unremitting labors toraise his station in life.
From them he not only learned the tools of his future trade but developed a keen sense of ambition that he would use to move beyond his family's struggles to build his own successful business. Josiah Wedgwood (1730–1795) spent his childhood and youth in a family of struggling potters. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. As the business developed, Wedgwood built a factory, and transformed the process of shopping for pottery by holding workshops and demonstrations for customers, an early version of the showroom. Despite illness and the deaths of family members, Dolan's Wedgewood worked ardently to improve his products and increase his sales and wealth. Dolan presents an inventive youth who performed experiment after experiment in search of new and attractive forms of pottery. Eventually, h
Born into a family of struggling potters, Josiah Wedgwood amassed a fortune that, at his death in 1795, was valued at the equivalent of $3.4 billion in today’s dollars and helmed an empire that stretched from England to Russia to the United States. As a member of the famous Lunar Society, whose members included James Watt, Joseph Priestley, and Erasmus Darwin, he combined rationality with bold experimentation, revolutionizing the business model of his time with a series of innovations that have continued to this day: • Organizing skilled labor in one of the world’s earliest factories • Encouraging employee loyalty by offering long-term contracts that included health insurance and pension plans • Changing the very notion of shopping by utilizing showrooms and traveling salesmen The story of how phenomenal wealth affected the lives of a family and of the turbulent political climate that threatened their very livelihood, this vivid and compelling portrait of a pioneer of commercial culture is sure to be a hit with loyal collectors and the business market alike.. With its familiar white classical figures against a pale-blue background, Wedgwood has been one of the most recognizable brand names in the world for more than two hundred years—the epito