Businesspeople
- Author:Adiga, AravindSummary:
- Author:Topol, Carolyn LevineSummary:
Craig just got fired from his dead-end job, and Jeff just got kicked out of his dead-end relationship. Frustrated with their unhappy lives, the two friends decide to let off some steam by going out to the Music Box, the town’s most...
- Author:Madsen, AxelSummary:
William C. Durant did big things the big way: he overreached, but, until his final failure, he picked up the pieces time after time to confound his competitors. From a turbulent childhood in the small town of Flint, Michigan, to his...
- Author:Knight, PhilSummary:
In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic,...
- Author:Lee, HidiSummary:
Hidi Lee asked the question, “What is sexy?” And America answered. In this compilation of personal stories comes the image of what is sexy—of what sexy really is, without the gimmicks, without the prejudice which we often believe...
- Author:Branson, RichardSummary:
Branson argues it's time organizations end their rabid devotion to profit and start doing good. Instead of wrecking the planet with pollution while creating an ever-poorer lower class, businesses have an opportunity to create a...
- Author:Walton, SamSummary:
Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant...
- Author:Howe, Ben RyderSummary:
A former senior editor of "The Paris Review" recounts his participation in a family effort to buy and run a Korean convenience store for his in-laws, a pursuit that raised issues about work and family while he shuttled between...
- Author:Millhauser, StevenSummary:
Presents Martin Dressler, son of an immigrant cigar maker, who, in dedicating his life to the American dream, becomes a symbol of it.
- Author:Vitale, JoeSummary:
This is the first audiobook to explain how to sell--without resorting to hype, scare tactics, manipulation or settling for low response rates--through an amazing step-by-step formula anyone can use. It is the answer for every...
- Author:LANE, Rose WilderSummary:
Rose Wilder Lane was a newspaper reporter, free-lance writer, political activist, and the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the "Little House" series of popular children's books. In this biography of Henry Ford...
- Author:Lowe, JanetSummary:
Lowe profiles what some call the prototypical 21st-century company, Internet giant Google. In less than 15 years, creators Sergey Brin and Larry Page built what was supposed to be a simple search engine into a megaprofitable operation...
- Author:Tang, Stanley, Joyner, MarkSummary:
These People Are Silently Making Millions of Dollars Online. Now, Hear Their Stories and Learn How They Did It. Look behind every breakthrough success and you'll find motivating stories of individuals who made it happen. They had a...
- Author:Antoniou, HelenSummary:
To most Canadians, the Molson name is part of the very fabric of Canada. Since 1786, when John Molson founded his first brewery in Montreal, it has become synonymous with beer, hockey, and philanthropy. Few realize, however, how close...
- Author:Lewis, SinclairSummary:
George Babbitt is a successful realtor and proud member of the Booster’s club, but his conventional life has left him unsatisfied. Babbitt abandons his old life for one of bohemian values but slowly realizes that even rebellion isn’t...
- Author:Myers, JaySummary:
Starting a business is easy. Growing a successful business: not so much. The statistics are grim: less than 20% of the businesses started each year survive their 5th anniversary. Jay Myers, founder of Interactive Solutions, Inc. in...