Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie

Carnegie's life is divisible into five periods, each demonstrating remarkable leadership. The first period (1848-1852) began with Carnegie's immigration at age thirteen from Scotland to the United States, where he found employment in 1848 as a bobbin boy in a Pittsburgh textile mill, studying accounting in night school after his arduous twelve-hour workday. With characteristic quickness and hard work, he soon became a messenger boy in a telegraph office, where he learned telegraphy on his own time, resulting in a promotion in 1851 to telegraph operator (Baker, 2007).

This led to his big break and the second period ...