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Everyone Else Must Fail
The Unvarnished Truth About Oracle and Larry Ellison
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2003
Karen Southwick’s unauthorized account provides the full story of Larry Ellison’s brilliant, controversial career. Ellison’s drive and fierce ambition created Oracle out of the dust and built it into one of America’s great technology companies, but his unpredictable management style keeps...
Grinding It Out
The Making of McDonald's
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
"He either enchants or antagonizes everyone he meets. But even his enemies agree there are three things Ray Kroc does damned well: sell hamburgers, make money, and tell stories." --from Grinding It Out
Few entrepreneurs can claim to have radically changed the way we live, and Ray...
Winners Dream
A Journey from Corner Store to Corner Office
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
A leadership and career manifesto told through the narrative of one of today’s most inspiring, admired, and successful global leaders.
In Winners Dream, Bill McDermott—the CEO of the world’s largest business software company, SAP—chronicles how relentless optimism, hard work, and disciplined...
Intel Trinity,The
How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Based on unprecedented access to the corporation’s archives, The Intel Trinity is the first full history of Intel Corporation—the essential company of the digital age— told through the lives of the three most important figures in the company’s history: Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy...
by Gary Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2003
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for our own age, the story of a dreamer who turned American media upside down—and suffered the consequences
Louis Rossetto had no money, no home, no job. Five years later he owned the hottest magazine in America and was poised to become an international tycoon,...
The Bite in the Apple
A Memoir of My Life with Steve Jobs
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
An intimate look at the life of Steve Jobs by the mother of his first child providing rare insight into Jobs's formative, lesser-known years
Steve Jobs was a remarkable man who wanted to unify the world through technology. For him, the point was to set people free with tools to explore their...
A Global Lesson
Success Through Cooperation and Compassionate Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Reinhard Mohn, legendary entrepreneur and father of the global media giant Bertelsmann, offers penetrating insights into his motives, beliefs, and hopes as one of the world’s foremost businesspeople.
Reinhard Mohn has grappled with the political and cultural changes of recent decades like...
by Leander Kahney
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
One of USA Today's Best Business Books of 2008-now updated with a new chapter
It's hard to believe that one man revolutionized computers in the 1970s and '80s (with the Apple II and the Mac), animated movies in the 1990s (with Pixar), and digital music in the 2000s (with the iPod and iTunes)....
Higher
100 Years of Boeing
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Over the course of a century, the Boeing Company has grown from a small outfit operating out of a converted boathouse—producing a single pontoon plane made from canvas and wood—into the world's largest aerospace company. The thrilling story of the celebrated organization is one filled with ambition,...
by Toni Mascolo, Stafford Hildred
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
TONI MASCOLO was a happy one-year-old toddler in the sleepy Italian town of Scafati, near Pompeii, when, in September 1943, the Allied landings at Salerno brought war to his family's doorstep. More than seventy years later, he is the distinguished head of Toni & Guy, a Knight of the Italian Republic,...
by Vivienne Westwood, Ian Kelly
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Vivienne Westwood è una delle icone della nostra era. Stilista di moda, attivista, co-creatrice del punk, brand globale. Mamma, più volte moglie e compagna, nonna. Una vera leggenda vivente. La sua carriera ha attraversato con successo cinque lunghi decenni, e il suo lavoro influenzato milioni di...
Gods and Kings
The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
More than two decades ago, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen arrived on the fashions scene when the business was in an artistic and economic rut. Both wanted to revolutionize fashion in a way no one had in decades. They shook the establishment out of its bourgeois, minimalist stupor with daring,...
by Rick Phillips, Mary Helen Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Desperadoes and Dumbasses is the life story of a Texas raised 40-year career oil and gas accountant, fraud examiner and consultant who lived in and worked in and traveled to Indonesia, India, Egypt, Argentina, Mexico and Italy.
The story includes management teams described as All in the Family,...
Das verschollene Erbe der Wertheims
Die Geschichte meiner deutsch-jüdischen Familie
Language: German
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Diese Geschichte startet lautlos und endet mit einem Paukenschlag. Sie beginnt mit Carlos Guilliard, einem jungen Mann, der in der Stille eines Lesesaals Akten durchkämmt, um seinen familiären Wurzeln auf die Spur zu kommen. Und sie endet mit einer brisanten Meldung, die sich wie ein Lauffeuer um...