Biography & History
mobi |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Randy Fertel

10.6 Mom at her desk. Mom located her desk at a table near the bar and front door where she could keep an eye on everything, including the till. She’d ...
( Category: Americas December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Lawrence A. Cunningham [Cunningham, Lawrence A.]

If Shaw’s detour into branding and retailing taught lessons about sticking to one’s knitting, a final lesson concerns being modest in one’s capital structure. This lesson in corporate finance comes ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Mel Ziegler & Patricia Ziegler [Ziegler, Mel]

Seeing our frustration, Richard suggested a small buying agency in Florence. He thought we might find more flexibility in Italy. One of us needed to get back to the office. ...
( Category: Graphic Design December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2002-08-31 | Author:Larry Tye

7 At the OFFICE To his clients Eddie seemed the epitome of propriety. His uniform was a three-piece suit, a soft-collared white shirt, and black shoes. The style may have ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:George Bodenheimer & Donald T. Phillips

When I arrived early to the office on my second day as president of ESPN, there was a message on my voice mail from the night before. An excited but ...
( Category: Skills December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-10-12 | Author:Charles G. Koch

WALKING THE TALK Although these principles may seem commonsensical, developing the ability to apply them routinely and instinctively to achieve results requires constant reflection and practice. As Voltaire noted, common ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-09-13 | Author:Michael D. Eisner & Aaron R. Cohen

Two guys from Brooklyn It is an unusually cool spring night in May of 1977. A few months before the Son of Sam serial killer wreaks havoc all across New ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-30 | Author:Stephen Denny [Denny, Stephen]

VICTOR BAZAN’S STORY OF the St. Martinville prison siege is a vivid example of the FBI switching the emotional polarity—from rational to emotional or emotional to rational—to defuse and ultimately ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-06-09 | Author:Kevin Maney & Steve Hamm & Jeffrey O'Brien

Watson’s and IBM’s principles and loyalties were not in question, but the chairman’s judgment had been mistaken. More to the point, IBM was struggling with tensions endemic to the decentralized ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2006-01-18 | Author:Charles Fishman

THE DEAN OF WAL-MART scholars is a professor and economist named Kenneth E. Stone, now retired from Iowa State University’s extension service. Back in 1988, when Wal-Mart was one fourteenth ...
( Category: Industries December 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Vineet Nayar [Nayar, Vineet]

CHAPTER FOUR Recasting the Role of the CEO Transferring the Responsibility for Change By midwinter of 2006, people throughout HCLT had started to believe in the enormous potential we had ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-06-29 | Author:John F. Wasik

MANAGING THE SPECTACLE Mid-1920s Scandals I’ve long respected President Calvin Coolidge. He knew when not to talk and what not to say. —Charles Walgreen, founder of the drugstore chain.1 Tired ...
( Category: Engineering December 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-03-03 | Author:Zac Bissonnette

Talk with collectors of anything for more than about a minute, and you’re almost guaranteed to hear the phrase “the thrill of the hunt.” Sigmund Freud, a noted collector himself, ...
( Category: Industries December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-09-08 | Author:Matthew Hancock & Nadhim Zahawi [Hancock, Matthew]

The Rise of the Machines For centuries, mankind has tried to manage risk. Fear over the future is part of our survival instinct, whether you hoard food, save money, or ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-07-13 | Author:Edward Tse

GEELY BUYS A BRAND At the start of 2010, Geely Auto was a minor player in China’s auto industry—a mid-sized, privately owned carmaker based in east China’s Zhejiang Province. The ...
( Category: International December 2,2017 )