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Article: What century is this? You can carve this in stone: the 21st century is the Century of the Entrepreneur. And the world is a better place as a result!
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- November 1, 2006
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The 20th century dawned on Messrs. Ford, Kellogg, Dow, Edison and a few other entrepreneurs as they were creating hundreds of major corporations, which ultimately would employ most of the rest of us. Even though there was a lot of entrepreneurial excitement a hundred years ago, the 1900s actually became the century of the major corporation--the kind of corporations these men had to build in order to produce and deliver the fruit of their ingenuity.
Regardless of the industry, the 20th century's early entrepreneurs needed one common commodity that was essential to their success: workers--and lots of them. And for most of the century, the relationship was win-win ...