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Dec 12, 2017 · So making the jump from short stories and novels to screenplays is a huge undertaking, even for the most skilled authors. Here are some of the greatest examples of famous authors that became screenwriters — and how they fared.
- Robert Wood: Building The Panama Canal, Winning World War I
- Robert Wood Becomes A Retailer
- Sears Before Robert Wood
- Robert Wood Arrives at Sears, Roebuck
- Robert Wood and Retail Stores
- Robert Wood and Sears The Buyer of Merchandise
- Robert Wood and Sears’s Employees
- Robert Wood and The Community
- The Overall Philosophy of Sears Under Robert Wood
- Robert Wood The Leader
Born on June 13, 1879, in Kansas City, Missouri, to Robert Whitney Wood and Lillie Collins Wood, Robert E. was the first of five children. His father was a decorated Union soldier who fought to keep Kansas free of slavery and went on to become a successful coal and ice merchant in Kansas City. The financial panic (depression) of 1893 lingered on, a...
Robert Thorne had been a civilian on Wood’s wartime staff and was duly impressed by Wood’s intelligence and leadership skills. Thorne also happened to be the president of Montgomery Ward & Co., the first big US mail-order house and, since 1900, second only to Sears, Roebuck. Thorne and his four brothers owned a controlling interest in the giant ret...
Richard Sears dreamed of becoming a banker. However, in 1886, the twenty-three-year-old Sears was a station agent for the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad in North Redwood, Minnesota. Handling incoming and outgoing freight, he received a shipment of watches that the local jewelry store refused. He contacted the shipper, which offered him the watc...
Given that his fellow corporate officers were also approaching retirement age, Rosenwald searched for a younger man to run the company, someone in his forties. He focused on the railroad industry, which was powerful at the time and full of executives with experience leading large numbers of workers, covering large territories, and managing “logisti...
Finally in the driver’s seat, Wood pressed ahead full-steam on building retail stores across America. Leveraging Sears’s catalog plants—giant warehouses across the country—and Sears’s massive buying organization and supply chain, he wanted to deliver to the American customer the best values, whether in the catalog or in stores. His strategy was bas...
Taking ideas learned in Panama and in World War I, Wood made his huge buying force become experts in their fields. They were not only required to be good buyers, but they were to visit the factories, understand every step of production, and work closely with long-term suppliers to create products that served the customer. Wood not only continued to...
Picking up on Rosenwald’s policies, Wood expanded the profit-sharing and pension plan, which invested in Sears’s stock. By the 1970s, employees owned over one-quarter of Sears’s stock through this plan. The plan was biased in favor of hourly employees and sales clerks, limiting the amount executives could make. For each dollar contributed out of em...
Perhaps above all else, General Robert Wood believed in America and the American people. Highly unusual for corporate executives of the period, the lifelong Republican backed Franklin Delano Roosevelt for president in his first two elections, and supported many New Deal policies. Wood saw people struggling, and believed that extreme steps were requ...
Today there is a movement called “Conscious Capitalism,” initiated in large part by the founder and chief executive officer of Whole Foods Market, John Mackey. A key idea is that corporations do best when they serve all their constituencies—customers, employees, suppliers, community, and stockholders. As indicated above, both Julius Rosenwald and R...
Lessons for leaders abound in the Robert Wood story.
He was above all else, human—he loved meeting people and talking to them. He walked the stores and mail-order plants continually. He knew people’s names. He never liked military discipline, and never went through channels—every Sears employee knew they could talk directly to him. He was always on the lookout for good ideas, no matter who had them. At one point in his numerous managerial experiments, over four hundred store managers reported directly to him, with no layers of management to int...
Jun 30, 2021 · Get your nose in these excellent (and essential) books on screenwriting! I will preface this list by saying that the best way to learn about screenwriting is to watch films or TV shows and to read their scripts. There is no substitute for that.
Aug 15, 2021 · We go over the 15 best screenwriting books and tell you why they belong on your self. We have lots of opinions on why they'll help your script.
Dec 19, 2015 · Chasing Shadows: the life and death of Peter Roebuck. By Tim Lane and Elliot Cartledge. Hardie Grant. 298 pages, £12.99. A new book about the late great cricket writer tries to unravel the many...
Mar 25, 2018 · But this is the Julius Rosenwald story. And the story of “Sears Roebuck,” which began in 1885 with Richard Warren Sears, an ambitious local railroad stationmaster in North Redwood Falls, Minnesota. When a COD shipment of watches was refused by a jewelry company that year, Sears bought the lot.
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Dec 31, 2011 · The reports spoke of a private, complex man, a gifted writer and former player who preferred reading a book alone over dinner to socialising with friends.
