[Kobi]

Henry Ford

Well known for the Ford Motor Company, developing the assembly line, being the father of workplace efficiency, using higher wages to stop worker turnover, and for basically transforming American life and culture during its development from an agricultural society to an industrial society.

Less well known for being a brilliant yet uneducated farm boy, a tyrannical boss who had a sociology dept at Ford to help Americanize his immigrant workforce i.e. make sure they were legally married, not drinking, not problems in the community etc. He even held ceremonies where workers dressed in their traditional clothing, walked into a large pot like structure, were literally stirred by management, and exited dressed in suits and ties. Seriously.

He was also fond of anti-Semitic rants in a newspaper he owned and distributed at his dealerships. And, believed his investors were like leaches, draining the company without adding anything (except capital) to the process.

What a brilliant yet oddly weird man.