General Electric

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• Thomas Edison tried to take credit for a device created by a Black American inventor — Granville Woods patent battles against Edison in segregation-era America
• Today's management-speak has a lot in common with 1930s Soviet propaganda—and it's making people miserable | Fortune — Modern corporate performance culture mirrors Soviet Stakhanovist ideology