Eiffel's Tower
summary
Recounts how Gustave Eiffel actually gets a 300‑meter centerpiece built for the 1889 exposition: precise offices produce 1,700 general and 3,629 part drawings, crews drive foundation piles 72 feet to bedrock, and workers set 2.5 million rivets using portable forges while cranes ride elevator tracks. Explains the money deal that lets the tower charge admission and repay costs during the fair, and extracts concrete tactics—making allies, negotiating tradeoffs, and acting as a measured “heat shield” for teams.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 22:111,063 feet
- 24:29Every organization is political.
- 26:37Making Friends
- 27:24Telling Stories
- 28:42Negotiation
- 28:54Cooperation
- 29:42Zero-Sum
- 30:53Bad Politics?
