IKEA employees are inspired to work hard by an anecdote from their Swedish founder, Ingvar Kamprad, who told how he was berated by his father for failing repeatedly to get out of bed to milk the cows on his family's farm. In an essay he recounts how one day he got an alarm clock. "'Now by jiminy, I'm going to start a new life,' he determined, setting the alarm for twenty to six and removing the 'off button.'" Ingvar Kamprad is an example of a (n) :

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Hadley Oneill

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16 January, 06:58

IKEA employees are inspired to work hard by an anecdote from their Swedish founder, Ingvar Kamprad, who told how he was berated by his father for failing repeatedly to get out of bed to milk the cows on his family's farm. In an essay he recounts how one day he got an alarm clock. "'Now by jiminy, I'm going to start a new life,' he determined, setting the alarm for twenty to six and removing the 'off button.'" Ingvar Kamprad is an example of a (n) :

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Scarlet Manning · Answer 1

He is a true example of hard work and dedication. He set a goal and he accomplished it.

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Ingvar Kamprad a swedish entreprenour was born in 1926 and in 1943 he founded IKEA with the money his father gave for obtaining good grades. The letters "I" and "K" represent the first two letters of his name and the letters "E" and "A" are the farm where he worked "Elmtaryd" and the town where he grew "Agunnaryd"