I was just watching an episode of The Innovators – The men who built America and was amazed with some of the information there. The moment I jumped in it was about problems that Andrew Carnegie had with his steel empire. In the program it was shown that he even was at war with his employees once, including taking his factories back by force after they had been taken by employees on strike. It was also shown that he fired the person actually running his company, I presume his CEO, of whom was stated that he kind of went against Carnegie.
I was amazed as things like strike, I presume the Homestead Strike, is meant, especially using violence to retake the factory, are against the rule Napoleon Hill states something like ‘things should benefit all’, although on the other hand Napoleon Hill also promotes to deal with problems and mentions that it is better to ‘put up a straight fight’ than, well doing nothing or something.
What amazed me most was the person going against Carnegie was presumably his CEO, where I understand that he must have been part of the Master Mind Group of Carnegie and the way how the situation was described had nothing to do with the harmony needed in a Master Mind, it appeared to be the full opposite.
The other story in the program was about Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan which taught me a lot about the practice op applying the Principles of Success and actually the whole book Think and Grow Rich seems to fall more into place watching this program
At the end of the program I was thinking that that period in the United States was about building the United States as it is now industrially. As the book is based on that period while America was built industrially one may ask if all the Principles of Success still apply in the way it was used then. The main issue was also there were many large innovations at the time and for quite a while I’m already asking myself if there are still innovations like that in the world. The last thing in my mind was the Appollo Program to fly to the moon and that’s long time ago. Similar projects were the Concorde and the Boeing 747, but later on I realized that the Boeing 747 was not the big innovation I imagined it to be.
So some long, well, frustration of mine is that there seem to be no more real big innovations anymore. The Appollo Program seems to have been kind of the last. After that it seems to have been mostly ‘more of the same’, like more efficient or bigger of faster, nothing really innovative.
So of course in my mind is how could I find ‘the next big innovation’ that might even be my money making goal. I’m good in ideas and still have some big ideas and plans in my mind, but nothing ‘world changing’.
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