Business Thinkers

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Owner/Manager

The epitome of the owner-manager was Ford, who left no-one in any doubt who was boss with his maxim: "You can have any colour you like, providing it's black".

When Drucker was discovering management, he adopted Ford as his industrial hero, but later he regarded him as effectively a non-manager, grouping him with the original owner-managers: the "Caesars".

Sloan owned the Hyatt Roller Bearing Company before selling it to GM for £13,500,000.

Owen owned his own mill in Manchester before buying the mill in New Lanark which he developed into a model village.

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