Nobody saw him again. Jimmy was powerful, but he had made many enemies and was in the crosshairs of the mob, making his disappearance one of the most famous of the 20th century. His body was never found and in he was presumed dead. Although over time many took credit for his disappearance and his death from him, little is known for sure.
His body and his disappearance became one of the best-known mysteries of the time. To date, the fate of his body is unknown. Many say it is buried, others that it was dismembered and thrown into a river, and others that it was compacted. There were many complaints about the discovery of his body, but all false. His legacy was continued by his son, the current head of the International Brotherhood of Truckers, James P. He was married to Josephine Poszywak and was the father of James P.
Hoffa and Barbara Ann Crancer. Jeff Bezos January 12, His birth name is Jeffrey Preston Bezos. Businessman and founder and CEO of Amazon. His mother, Jacklyn Gise, had him as a teenager and his biological father, Ted Jorgensen, left them as soon as he heard the news.
Years later his mother married Miguel Bezos a Cuban. Now, Miguel adopted Jeffrey and he received his last name. The family moved to Houston, Texas. Jeffrey Bezos studied at River Oaks Elementary, he was always a very smart and witty little boy.
And upon graduating he entered Princeton University to study Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, his thesis was cum laude. In , he started working in a fiber optic company, FITEL, where he was responsible for the development of computer systems, his performance was so good that he became vice president. In the following four years, Bezos worked with another Wall Street company: D. Shaw and Co. For this reason, he founded the electronic commerce company Amazon in Its service was something new for the netizens, which produced an increase in the visits quickly.
Only in the first month of operation had books been sold in all corners of the United States. Months later it reached 2, daily visitors, a figure that would multiply abysmally in the next year. In , the success made Amazon become one of the most important companies online. Bezos had managed to conquer the internet business. Encouraged by the reception of consumers, he undertook the diversification of products, including CD and DVD media and electronic devices.
As demand increased, this ingenious man included new products to his virtual store. The growth and its popularity were such that today it distributes from food to home, clothes and shoes, video games and music, to toilet paper and diapers. Amazon has experimented with the lucrative benefit of advertising since it gives the possibility to companies to advertise their products and mark them as featured products. The AOL online sales service also supports. Amazon Kindle was launched for the first time in North America and is currently available in 45 countries.
The following year, Bezos was named Entrepreneur of the Year by Fortune. It is part of the Bilderberg Group. Bezos has given several conferences in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and participated in the conference in Watford, Hertfordshire, England. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Business Council in and In , he appeared on the Forbes list, where a net wealth of billion dollars was estimated.
He donated the prize money to the international student organization Students for the Exploration and Development of Space by Bezos. Since , he has seen an increase in Amazon shares. Really, the awards and awards have been impressive. Much of this is because Bezos, started in the field of journalism, looking beyond its commercial horizons; beyond the web. Bezos entered the world of media, acquiring the traditional newspaper The Washington Post for the sum of thousand dollars.
The entrepreneur and inventor appears in the list of the richest in the world, occupying the position number 56, in , with Forbes magazine, for the December publication, named him the 21st person with the most power in the world. His greatest goal, according to Musk, is to change humanity drastically; for this purpose, he works in SolarCity, SpaceX, and Tesla.
One of his interests is the abandonment of petroleum fuels in order to reduce global warming. He spent his childhood in South Africa with his parents, an engineer from South Africa and a nutritionist from Canada. At age 10, with his first computer, a Commodore VIC, he began to learn to programme on his own. At that time he went through difficult times; his schoolmates subjected him to bullying because of his uncommon interests for them.
Elon spent his money on science fiction books, comics, and video games. In the period between 12 and 15 years of age, he entered into an existential crisis influenced by the readings of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. The situation went to the extreme of taking him to the hospital because of beatings by his companions.
In his home things were not better, the relationship with his father was quite complicated. He suffered the emotional violence of a father unable to understand him. Compulsory military service bothered him. For these reasons, at age 17, after graduating from high school in Pretoria, he decided to leave South Africa and take refuge with his mother in Canada.
What Musk wanted most was to reach the United States. He found in that country a way to make possible everything he imagined. How did this inexperienced young man, born and raised in Austria early in the last century become a seer, predicting events decades into the future, an advisor of powerful chief executives and heads of state about what they should or should not do?
But clearly Drucker started with something somehow and his ideas grew to be powerful and effective. He learned from his mistakes and constantly refined his principles over his long lifetime of 96 years.
Most tend to repeat the same types of mistakes activities without any improvement at all. Such was not the case with Drucker. As he grew older, Drucker did not at first want to attend a college, at least the way most students do. Instead he took an apprenticeship with a cotton-exporting company in Hamburg, Germany away from his parents. At that time, even more than today, an apprenticeship was mostly applied to the trades.
Whether the intent was to become a sorcerer or something else, the apprentices were expected to spend their time mastering the work to learn the position. During his apprenticeship, Drucker had been attending night school, studying law at Hamburg University, even though his parents had the money and wanted him to study full-time in a prestigious institution as a more conventional student. After just one-year Drucker quit the apprenticeship but continued studying.
Then he got his first job as a journalist afterwards writing for a regional newspaper, the Frankfurter General-Anzeiger. Moving to Frankfurt after Hamburg, he again went to night school at the University of Frankfurt. He explained to us, his own PhD students, that he graduated with the easiest, quickest, doctorate that he could attain; a practical PhD in international and public law.
Until I wrote these words, it never occurred to me that all of us, his students at the time, were or had been senior executives and that we too were studying and working towards a practical PhD in his new PhD program at what was then Claremont Graduate School.
Today it is the Peter F. Like Peter, we mostly went to night classes. While we were required to take one or two courses in each discipline, we looked at no individual discipline in depth nor did we take a multitude of courses in a single chosen business speciality as most PhD students did then and now. Therefore, while we considered the work challenging , our professors felt, for the most part, that we were getting an easy doctorate, rather than in-depth studies that would help us do research in a single discipline after the acquisition of our doctorates.
Drucker Management Center in Drucker published eight new titles during the decade in addition to maintaining active teaching and consulting activities. In , he produced The Nonprofit Drucker, a five-volume audio series featuring insights into the management of the social sector.
The Peter F. Drucker delivered the prestigious Godkin Lecture at Harvard University in The Drucker Center became the Peter F. Asked near the end of his life what he considered his most important contributions, Drucker replied:. Drucker died on November 11, , eight days shy of his ninety-sixth birthday. In , the Drucker Archives became the Drucker Institute. What have you stopped doing lately so as to free up resources for the new and innovative?
What business are you in? For those who worked hard enough to puzzle out the answers, the experience could be truly profound. And if the answer is no, what are you going to do about it? Above all, Drucker pushed his clients to stop simply making plans and to start taking action. Use our online form to ask a librarian for help. This guide was created at the time but has been updated. This blog also features upcoming events and collection displays, classes and orientations, new research guides, and more.
Peter Drucker was born on November 19, External in Vienna and when he died on November 11, , just eight days short of his 96th birthday, Peter F. Drucker was often described as the inventor of modern management. His books have stood the test of time, and are still considered some of the best business books to read on management and leadership. Here are three notable examples with links to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog :.
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