Tell me about Jack Kent Cooke

[WaldSkins]

Originally Posted by Dirtbag359

I'm currently in the middle of writing a 2,000 word paper for my Entrepreneurial class and as you may have already guessed my paper is on the late great Jack Kent Cooke (was originally going to write about Snyder but I don't think he qualifies as historical).

However I only really know limited amounts about his involvement with the Redskins. If anyone could provide any factoids on his dealings with the other teams he owned as well as the businesses he started before becoming an owner then that would be much appreciated.

The actual question reads as follows:
'Growing a business is a difficult challenge'. With reference to a historical entrepreneur of your choice, explore and explain the key factors behind their business growth and success.

Information can include anything from his personallity, style of management, factoids about his old business, how he balanced raising a family, and virtually anything else you may know.

I soooo misread that. I thought you were typing the longest paper in world history.

[Dirtbag59]

Originally Posted by WaldSkins

I soooo misread that. I thought you were typing the longest paper in world history.

Actually when I first posted the thread I wrote 2,000 page paper. It has obviously since been edited. So it's not like you're the only one.

[SmootSmack]

Wilson worked two years under the legendary Jack Kent Cooke of the Lakers. He and a co-worker were the stars of the Lakers sales staff, which worked solely on commission. In his brief stay there, he made considerable money for the times. When the season ended, the two were summoned to Cooke’s office for what they assumed would be a pat on the back – and, very likely, a bonus. Instead Cooke told them they’d never make that much money again, pulled all their files and distributed their business among the rest of the staff.

“Cooke ran an organization by fear,” Wilson said. “That affected (his relationship with Davidson) for years. The first two or three years, when we were really struggling, I kept thinking he was going to come to his senses soon and realize this was a mistake. Cooke fired three-quarters of the people who worked there in the two years I was there, and that figure is probably low. The VP of sales changed five times in two years. There was no trust there; here it’s complete trust. That sort of freedom allows you the daring that you need. If you don’t have the ability to be wrong, you don’t have the ability to be really, really right.”

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[Dblock804]

Was he in the first Pay per veiw? Boxing at the Garden. Foreman, Ali? Like Brokered the deal maybe an agent?

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by Dblock804

Was he in the first Pay per veiw? Boxing at the Garden. Foreman, Ali? Like Brokered the deal maybe an agent?

Right. He bankrolled that fight and was the promoter. Don King before Don King