Enterprise Holdings, as it is known today, is one of the largest privately owned family businesses in North America, which continues to profoundly affect the car rental and leasing businesses around the globe. The corporation has prided itself on customer service, valuing employees, and has the best retention rate in the industry. There is not a specialized formula for building a successful corporation, so how has Enterprise developed such a powerful company with a strong reputation and loyal customers? The story of Enterprise began with Jack Crawford Taylor’s vision. Jack’s character was shaped by his naval experiences as an officer and pilot where he learned the importance of honesty, hard work, dedication, collaboration, and doing things correctly, is the only way to succeed. After the war, Jack was a successful Cadillac salesperson at Lindburg Dealership in St. Louis Missouri, which gave him financial security and knowledge about the car industry. During a visit to Chicago, Jack observed the ease and convenience of Cadillac’s leasing options and recognized the opportunity for growth potential in this market, since few companies offered car leases. Jack approached his boss about starting a leasing company on the premises of Lindburg Cadillac. In 1957, Jack invested $10,000 and Executive Leasing Company was established with seven cars and one employee. Jack’s investment paid off and today Enterprise is a global business operating in forty countries, with 8,600
Treaty Signing at Medicine Lodge Creek is the title given to two different renderings by two different artists. At first glance, it is immediately clear that the pictures are very different. The work of John Taylor is presented in a way that appears sophisticated and from a trained artist. On the other hand, Howling Wolf’s drawing is less sophisticated and the artist is apparently untrained in art.
There are many “Industrial Tycoons” nowadays, but few compare to some of the great Entrepreneurs many years before. During the year 1870 the oil company, Standard Oil, was created to help heat people’s home’s, keep trains running, and provide light. John D. Rockefeller, the creator of this Oil company, was one of the greatest Industry Tycoons of all time, another great industry tycoon is Ellen Degeneres. Ellen has done a great amount in a short period of time. Both of these people have done great things, and kept people interested.
The Canadian auto industry is a model case study of a branch plant economy. The auto industry's rich history dates back to the beginning of the twentieth century where a bright young entrepreneur named Sam McLaughlin who initially was an apprentice in his father's carriage workshop went into the automobile manufacturing business with his brother and father. By l9l8, with increasing competition in the North American automobile industry, McLaughlin decided to sell his firm to the recently organized General Motors Company, owned by Durrant and associates. Thus, McLaughlin's company became a Canadian subsidiary of General Motors, with McLaughlin as president and as vice-president of the American company. During this process, the Oshawa plant gained the distinction of
Jack Taylor began his business of Enterprise Rent-A-Car in 1962 in St. Louis, Missouri. Following the successfully philosophy of, "Take care of your customers and employees first, and profits will follow", Enterprise grew steadily to become the nation’s largest rent-a-car company. What separated Enterprise from its other competitors such as Hertz, Avis, and Alamo was the fact that the company focused on two segments of the home-city market rather than appealing to the airport-rental market.
While a business would either undergo a quick or gradual, constant adaptation to its changing and competitive environment, there are certain core ideas that would stay the same and provide guidance in the process of strategic decision making (www.capsim.com.). These unchanging ideals are known as the business vision. The business vision statement comprised of three main components; core values, core purpose and visionary goals (www.quickmba.com). Core values are those that would remain unchanged regardless of time, current industry environment and any management trends. Core values are the building blocks of a company and are consisted of those values which strongly hold by the company. Core purpose is the reason that
With an increase in business, the firm recruited widely. The firm, which had employed 2,000 people in 1982, tripled to 6,000 people by 1987.” Due to excessive focus on generating revenues, one insider put it as, “competing fiefdoms replaced interconnected businesses.” and “Making money was mostly what mattered.”
Personally, I am sympathetic to Paul Taylor’s idea that people should respect for every living organism. From his book “Respect for Nature”, he proposes a definition of environmental ethics called Biocentric Individualism. It basically means that humans are not superior to any living organisms. Humans are a part of nature, so humans should have moral relations and connections with every living organism in the world. Thus, human’s obligations, actions and responsibilities should be often determined with respect to those relations and connections. Moreover, he suggests that every organism has intrinsic value such as unique biological functions or natural goals. To maintain a good natural system, organisms have to contribute and function together. Hence, all organisms should have equal inherent worth.
In The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, protagonist Taylor Greer is not your average teenage girl from Pittman, Kentucky. Taylor refuses to remain in her hometown forever, which only leads to teenage pregnancy and motherhood until death. On a mission to escape Pittman’s stereotypical teenage girl image, she buys a ‘55 Volkswagen and embarks on a journey west. Just when she thinks she is home free, Taylor is left with an abandoned three-year-old American Indian girl. Ironically, Taylor ends up as an unplanned single mother. The two end up living in Tucson, Arizona along with another recently single mother and her son. Had Taylor stayed in Pittman her metamorphose process would have differed greatly from her life in Tucson, Arizona
During the 1930's prejudice and racism was spread through the U.S. For example in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, the small town of Maycomb struggles with these aspects. Each character of the novel has a strong personality. Scout Finch is tough, always has an opinion, and is a tomboy. On the other hand Boo Radley stays hidden most of the time, but we all know he is actually a friend to Jem and Scout. Then there is Tom Robinson, a hardworking, strong, and innocent man. But what do all these characters have in common? They can all be analyzed as "mockingbirds". Throughout the novel each of their innocence is destroyed in some way. In Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird several of these characters become a symbolic mockingbird including
John Wideman’s “Our Time” portrays a different side of a convicted felon that is often never seen. His brother Robbie was sentenced to life in prison after being involved in a murder and robbery. Writing a book about his brother was something he had never done before and shows a very interesting approach to getting the reader’s attention. Due to the fact that he had never written a book like this before Wideman had to overcome some obstacles he had never faced before. As Wideman began writing the book he realizes that he has a hard time grasping the fact that he is a successful novelist and his brother a felon. Throughout the passage Wideman speaks to the reader
Since Firm E’s take over nine years ago our car company has reported financial gains every year. Firm E continues to set the industry standard for car companies in many ways. Our company is poised for taking
1) According to Dillard, lovers and the knowledgeable can see well. Yet she also suggests that those who are knowledgeable on a topic, such as people who have been blind from birth and can suddenly see (due to an opperation), can perhaps view more objectively the world around them, and see it in a way that those with vision from birth cannot. Infants, she says, can see very clearly, for they are viewing the world for the first time, and can observe the colors and the light with no prejudgments, but we forget this experience as we grow older, and only occasionally catch glimpses of this phenomenon.
Camus explanations of the Myth of Sisyphus, presented the concept of the absurd by outlining the beliefs that an individuals life has worth but only his live in a world that denies such worth to survive. Therefore, the absurdity in the statement, explains the fact of a clash between the orders through which an individuals mind hard for, likewise the lack of order that we as humans find in the world.
In Respect for Nature, Paul Taylor develops the following four elements of the biocentric outlook on nature:
The company understands the risks for working with U.S. auto industry especially during the recession in 2008, so they venture out to produce four new business units to minimize it by looking into investing on early-stage opportunities.