This Blog compares how Henry Ford controlled the Rouge River for the Ford Motor Company and Seattle built the Chittenden Canal for both business and citizens

This blog tries to answer the question do Cities control their own destiny?

I've been researching/writing a book for the last 8 years that compares the history of Detroit vs. Seattle: the Automotive vs. Aviation industries and Ford/GM vs. Boeing. I was going to start heavily blogging about my analysis next year. Given Boeing's continued safety issues, I wanted to share some relevant history and insights on the company to understand the importance of leadership returning to its roots. The history of one of America's most innovative companies After W

I have dug heavily into the labor history of the automotive and aviation industries from the 1900s to the 1950s. As a new labor movement gains momentum, I have 4 hard lessons for today's companies. https://pixabay.com/images/id-424500/ 1. American Entrepreneurs and executives allowed themselves to get too emotional about labor unions. American businessmen overestimated their status in society during the labor union rise from 1920 to the 1930s. These businessmen used violen

In November of 2011, a young President Obama oversaw and gloated over Boeing signing a nearly $38 billion deal with Indonesia's Lion Air, Boeing's most significant order to date[1]. President Obama would leverage this historical sale as a success of his diplomacy in Southeast Asia. He estimated this order would create 100,000 jobs in the US, believing this would impress his voters. Almost 7 years later, one of those planes crashed, killing 189 people. Boeing claimed its plane