Industries Professions category: 12443 books
The Alchemists
The INEOS Story – An Industrial Giant Comes of Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
One of the world’s top 40 manufacturing companies, one of the largest global petrochemicals producers and the biggest private company in the UK, INEOS has risen to prominence over the past twenty years led by three unassuming northern grammar school boys: majority owner Jim Ratcliffe and his business...
Driven to Succeed
How Frank Hasenfratz Grew Linamar from Guelph to Global
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Frank Hasenfratz grew up in Hungary learning to dodge bullets and avoid land mines during the Second World War. When the 1956 revolution erupted, he and his army unit joined the insurgents. After the revolution was crushed, he fled to Guelph, Ontario, where he gambled everything on a one-man operation...
For Time and All Eternity
The Sterling and Ellie Colton Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Eleanor Ricks left her Idaho home and journeyed to Salt Lake City to enroll at the University of Utah. Entering the freshman girls' dorm, she got on the elevator from the front. At the same moment Nancy Colton entered the back of the elevator, with her brother Sterling, who carried her luggage. Both...
Oilfield Revolutionary
The Career of Everette Lee DeGolyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Everette Lee DeGolyer wore many hats—and he wore them with distinction. Though not a geophysicist, he helped make geophysics central to oil exploration. Though not a politician, he played an important role in the national politics of energy. Though trained as a geologist, he became an important...
Outraged
How Detroit and the Wall Street Car Czars Killed the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
In Outraged, an auto insider provides an inspiring account of what it means to lose your rights, property, and, in essence, the American dream. It begins with roughly two thousand men and women whose companies were destroyed by two automakers, General Motors and Chrysler, during their government-led...
by Hans-Hermann Diestel
Language: German
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Es gibt nur wenige Vertreter in Wirtschaft und Politik, die über Jahrhunderte im gleichen Umfang wie der Kapitän mit Attributen und Mythen bedacht wurden. Da geistert immer noch das »Master next God« durch die maritime Literatur, Victor Hugo stellte ihn über den König, der Bremer Professor Ulrich...
Junk to Gold, De Chatarra a Oro
Del Salvamento a La Subasta De Automotores En Línea Más Grande Del Mundo Vendiendo Un Auto Cada 5 Segundos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Conoc a Willis en 1998. Fue obvio que l era nico. Willis sabe perfectamente quin es y en qu cree. Su enfoque es claro e inquebrantable: la familia, la religin y Copart.
Willis construy Copart a partir de un depsito de chatarra y lo convirti en una empresa de subastas de 4.5 mil millones de...
Junk to Gold
From Salvage to the World’S Largest Online Auto Auction
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Junk to Gold is about one man's journey from humble beginnings to unimaginable success. Willis Johnson, the founder of Copart [CPRT], offers up a personal and inspirational account of this journey to the top including lessons he learned from love, war and building a global, multi-billion dollar business....
Across Boundaries
A life in the media in a time of change
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
Ton Vosloo’s remarkable career in the media spanned nearly 60 years in South Africa’s history. During this turbulent time, South Africa went through the transition from Afrikaner Nationalist rule to an ANC government. At the helm of the leading press group founded in 1913 to support nascent Afrikaner...
Taking Aviation to New Heights
A Biography of Pierre Jeanniot
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
To chart the inspiring journey of Pierre Jeanniot is to trace the remarkable development of the air transport industry. In his youth, Jeanniot survived the bombing of Rome, the occupation of France, and was a witness to the Resistance in the Jura Mountains. In 1963, after the Sainte-Thérèse air...
The King of Content
Sumner Redstone’s Battle for Viacom, CBS, and Everlasting Control of His Media Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The remarkable story of Sumner Redstone, his family legacy, and the battles for all he controls.
Sumner Murray Redstone, who lived by the credo "content is king," leveraged his father’s chain of drive-in movie theaters into one of the world’s greatest media empires through a series...
by Rex Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
This is the story of 25 tumultuous years in the life of the South African mining company of Gold Fields, one of the greatest in the world. If it is true that ‘Big Business’ is the last adventure frontier, then mining for gold has to be the most adventurous, dangerous and unpredictable business...
Becoming a Somebody
The Biography of Ignat Kaneff
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2019
The fascinating life story of Ignat Kaneff, one of Canada’s leading residential and commercial builders.
When Ignat Kaneff arrived in Canada in 1951, he had a mere five dollars to his name, no proficiency in English, and very little education. Yet, this was the beginning of one of Canada’s...
A Road Taken
My Journey from a CN Station House to the CN Boardroom
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Nineteen years ago, David McLean was appointed by the prime minister of Canada to the board of directors of CN, after which he was elected chairman. McLean has been reelected each year and will retire in April 2014. In A Road Taken, the longest-serving chairman of the board in CN history explains...