Lee Iacocc An American Business Leader

Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee met on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. Both of these men were bringing a stop to the Civil War. The way Grant and Lee led their army were different from each other. Lee was a nobleman who fought hard for his Confederate men. Lee became a symbol for which his men were willing to die for. On the other hand, Grant grew up the hard way through the toughness beyond the mountains. Catton says “ These frontier men were the precise opposites of the tidewater aristocrats”. Grant and Lee represented two different sides of the so called American life. Though having different personalities and beliefs, both Grant and Lee are actually quite similar. They are tremendous fighters who only want one thing--to

The childhood of Robert Edward Lee played a pivotal role in the way he would see the world as a man. Lee was born into an aristocratic family of Virginia with a deeply rooted American history.

Lee, who is from Virginia, had very traditional and old fashioned beliefs. He strongly believed in the idea that having unequal, leadership, and social categories provided an advantage to society. The Confederacy embraced Lee as their leader as well. Furthermore, Confederate soldiers considered Lee

Henry Ford was one of the most brilliant entrepreneurs in creating the automobile assembly line, it was his controversial characteristics and unorthodox approach towards administrating the Ford Motor Company which resulted in the conglomeration of one of the most successful corporations in the world. At the turn of the century everything was booming! The growth of the economy and stock market increased the job opportunities as well as morals. As a result of this industrial revolution, out of the woodwork came a humble yet driven man, Henry Ford. Between the five dollar/day plan, his policies on administrating the company, and his relations with his customers, Ford was often presented as a suspicious character. This

Joseph E. Lee was born in Philadelphia in 1849, he graduated from Howard University in 1873. He moved to Florida that same year and became the first African American lawyer in Jacksonville and in the state of Florida. He served in the House of Representatives from 1875 to 1879 and in the state Senate from 1881 to 1882. He was one of the most influential African American men in Florida through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He was elected municipal judge of Jacksonville and was one of the first African Americans to have this honor. He educated free slaves at a college by the name of Edward Waters College. Lee worked as a public servant acting at various times as a state legislator, a lawyer, federal customs collector and educator.

He finished second in his class of 1829. He had experience early in his life, serving as a captain under General Winfield Scott in the Mexican-American War. He made himself most prominent in the wars of Veracruz, Churubusco, and Chapultepec. Lee’s general claimed that he was “the very best soldier I ever saw in the field (https://www.civilwar.org/learn/biographies/robert-e-lee). Due to his engineering background at West Point, Lee could use easily strategize against his opponents in war with mathematics and precision, making sure that his plans were very likely to succeed. These skills were later taken into the Civil War, which is a considerable reason of his

Lee was born in the slave state of Virginia on January 19, 1807; fifteen years before Ulysses S. Grant, who was born in Ohio, a free state, on the 27th of April, 1822. The two generals led very different lives: Grant came from a religious, hard working, and relatively poor background, Lee was from an honorable family with a respectable amount of money. The two generals studied in the United States Military Academy in West Point, but with very different intentions; Grant did not have any interest on becoming a soldier, but was forced by his father to enter the school and Lee had every intention on becoming a condecorated soldier. These differences ended up greatly defining their years on the Academy; Lee, who aspired to become a great soldier and future commander, graduated second in the class of 1829, while Grant, who was not very fond of military life, was 21st in a class of 39 students and was assigned to the infantry even though he was considered an amazing horse

In 1904 George W. Lee was born on May 7, 1904.George W. Lee was an African American civil rights leader, minister, and Entrepreneur. He was a vice president of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership and

Richard Henry Lee is known as being one of the driving forces during the Revolutionary generation and as a Founding Father of the United States of America. Lee influenced every step that Americans made towards independence, and his work created the structure for the United States that continues to hold strong. Throughout his work as a politician, congressman, statesman, and senator, Lee maintained his most honorable position as a patriot and advocate for colonial rights. Stemming from a prominent family dedicated to public service, Richard Henry Lee embraced his heritage by fanning the flames of revolution against the British Crown and making the motion to declare independence. Lee’s strong character and differing beliefs caused controversy

General Robert E. Lee is portrayed by the author, Michael Shaara, as a wise, older man, who believed in following the traditional ways of battle. General Lee’s loyalty to his men was only surpassed by his unfailing loyalty to his homeland, Virginia. When Virginia split off from the

Despite the mistakes his father and brother made, Lee managed to grow learning the ways of a true Southern gentleman. The departure of his father and two older half-brothers made Lee the man of the house at an early age. His mother, Ann Carter, raised Lee in modest circumstances and helped him to learn standard of conduct. Lee grew up in modest conditions, and though he received the normal education for someone of his class, he had to earn his own living and didn’t live the easy-going plantation life that most members of his family did. Since his mother did not have sufficient cash to send Lee to go to college, he chose instead to enter West Point military and academy. He entered in 1825 at the age of 18. At West Point Lee excelled tremendously. He finished second in his class and didn’t receive one demerit during his four years there (A feat that has yet to be repeated since then). Lee entered Engineer Corps after graduation where he was employed to build and maintain military installations and assist the Federal Government in the enormous work of providing internal improvements in order to settle border disputes on the frontier lands.

Lee Iacocca was born in 1924 in Pennsylvania and grew up to work for Ford motor company- which he would be at for 32 years and is now credited for designing the Ford mustang. Eventually, Iacocca left Ford and went to work for Chrysler to rebuild the company until he left again in 1992. Iacocca writes about his experiences at Ford and Chrysler and his keys to success in his 2007 book, “Where Have All the Leaders Gone?”. In chapter 19, “Three Men Who Taught Me to Lead”, Iacocca’s purpose is to inform people of what he’s learned from his three mentors: his father, Charlie Beacham, Robert McNamara and the women in his life. Lee Iacocca’s purpose for writing was to provide a tribute to the people who influenced him.

Iacocca 's leadership style was decisive and autocratic. He made decisions with little or no feedback from his superiors, peers or subordinates. However, his keen knowledge of the auto industry combined with his charisma helped influence those around him to follow his lead.

During his Senior year of high school, war broke out in the Pacific, and Lee was enraged. Answering to the call of duty, he was denied due to a bout of Rheumatic fever, and deferred from the military. During the fever, Iacocca took to reading, and suffered away at books day and night. Lee quickly became involved with every extracurricular he could join, and was finishing his schooling at the top percentile of his classes. While turned down from Purdue University, he went to Lehigh instead, and obtained the education that led him to the success he garnered later. In college, Lee developed a strong work ethic of planning his week in advance, every sunday, as to be prepared for the objectives to come. Normally, the college classes would have high student count, but due to World War 2, classes that would previously hold up to fifty kids, now had ten or less, and gave him an opportunity to receive a much more personal, and in depth education on his degree of choice, Industrial

During his childhood, Joseph surprisingly excelled at learning. He was so far ahead of the average students that he eventually skipped the “equivalent of four grade levels” (Joseph M. Juran, 2000). In 1920, Joseph enrolled at the University of Minnesota and a short four years later graduated with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. After returning to school, about a decade later, Joseph received a J.D. in Law at Loyola University in 1935.