Download or read book Reluctant Farewell written by Andrew Nagorski and published by Holt McDougal. This book was released on 1985 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A candid look inside the Soviet Union today. It is as much about the difficulties that face reporters who seek honestly to cover Soviet society as it is about the country itself.
Download or read book The Hero s Farewell written by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-02-07 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a business replaces its chief executive often determines that firm's future. If a business does not effectively manage the transfer of power, utter turmoil can result, with profound implications not only for the CEO, but also for the other employees, the shareholders, and the community at large. Filled with inside stories from corporate boardrooms and fresh conceptual perspectives, The Hero's Farewell describes in rich detail the factors that affect executive succession. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld offers the first close examination of the critical role a CEO's departure style plays in helping, or hindering, the transfer of power. Through candid interviews with fifty prominent retired chief executives from corporations such as AT&T, Ford, Dupont, United Technologies, and Raytheon (David Rockefeller of Chase Manhattan and Thomas J. Watson, Jr. of IBM among them) and a survey of an additional three hundred top managers, Sonnenfeld identifies the four major types of leadership departure styles. These types include Monarchs, who choose not to leave voluntarily but either die in office or are overthrown; Generals, who leave reluctantly and spend their retirement planning a comeback; Ambassadors, who retain close ties with their former firms; and Governors, who willingly serve a limited time and leave to pursue new interests. Capturing the human drama of these departures and succession battles, The Hero's Farewell will fascinate anyone intrigued by power struggles in large corporations. Outlining ways to smooth out the inevitable transfers of power that corporations must face, Sonnenfeld presents essential information for all top executives and especially for CEOs.
Download or read book Hello Thank You Good Bye written by Aloha Williams and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Azure-colored oceans blending into bright turquoise at the shores, undulating hills of green surrounding crystal clear lakes, and rolling sand dunes brushed with light blueman-made monuments that have withstood the march of time from the pyramids to Hadrians Wall--are rich memories of Ellen and Stephen Williams adventures. Eating "brik" in Tunisia and "churchkhela" in Tblisi! Drinking "kvas" in Ukraine! Passing up "lavabread" in Walesall were adventures that nearly didn't happen. Ellen did not want to leave her comfortable home in Texas. Content with their rural life but forced to relocate due to her husbands job she reluctantly began her move to Germany. She was a foot-dragging-don't-want-to-move-wife. Determined to make the best of a challenging situation she and her husband soon embarked on a plan--to experience as much of the region surrounding the Mediterranean Sea as possible. Within months Ellen and Stephen developed a passion for touring. Faced with language barriers, clashes of culture and cuisine they followed their plan with a vengeance visiting over 30 countries in the space of three years. Their frequent trips within a short period of time gave them a unique overview of the region. They could spot historical and cultural linkages between people and their respective countries. They saw the crossovers and mingling of traditions and languages. Soon they became the consummate travelers. Many friends began asking for recommendations of their favorite locale. Chronicled here are their adventures, misadventures, faux pas and joys as they grow from fledgling sightseers to consummate travelers. Journey with them as they realized the more you discover about other people and cultures, the more you ultimately learn about yourself. After reading the book perhaps you, too, will also learn to say in French "Bon Voyage," in Spanish "Buen Viaje," and in German "Gute Reiser"In short, Happy Travels!
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Download or read book Richter s Scale written by Susan Elizabeth Hough and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By developing the scale that bears his name, Charles Richter not only invented the concept of magnitude as a measure of earthquake size, he turned himself into nothing less than a household word. He remains the only seismologist whose name anyone outside of narrow scientific circles would likely recognize. Yet few understand the Richter scale itself, and even fewer have ever understood the man. Drawing on the wealth of papers Richter left behind, as well as dozens of interviews with his family and colleagues, Susan Hough takes the reader deep into Richter's complex life story, setting it in the context of his family and interpersonal attachments, his academic career, and the history of seismology. Among his colleagues Richter was known as intensely private, passionately interested in earthquakes, and iconoclastic. He was an avid nudist, seismologists tell each other with a grin; he dabbled in poetry. He was a publicity hound, some suggest, and more famous than he deserved to be. But even his closest associates were unaware that he struggled to reconcile an intense and abiding need for artistic expression with his scientific interests, or that his apparently strained relationship with his wife was more unconventional but also stronger than they knew. Moreover, they never realized that his well-known foibles might even have been the consequence of a profound neurological disorder. In this biography, Susan Hough artfully interweaves the stories of Richter's life with the history of earthquake exploration and seismology. In doing so, she illuminates the world of earth science for the lay reader, much as Sylvia Nasar brought the world of mathematics alive in A Beautiful Mind.
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Download or read book Death of a Squire written by Maureen Ash and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a squire's body is found hanging from a tree, Templar Bascot de Marins is given the task of unearthing the truth before an unprecedented meeting of kings at Lincoln Castle.
Download or read book Annie Moore The Golden Dollar Girl written by Eithne Loughrey and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second book in the trilogy – it charts the further adventures of Cork-born Annie Moore, who was the first immigrant to land at Ellis Island, New York, in 1892. Four years later, Annie, now aged seventeen, has left her family in New York and moved out west to Nebraska. Life in the West is unlike anything she has experienced before but Annie soon adapts, and before long she has an admirer. Annie is confused – she is interested in Carl but can't get Mike Tierney, whom she first met on her voyage to America from Ireland, out of her mind. But does Mike feel the same way?
Download or read book The Four Corners Abroad written by Amy E. Blanchard and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Four Corners Abroad by Amy E. Blanchard
Download or read book The Life and Letters of Captain John Brown written by Richard D. Webb and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-06-04 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.
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Download or read book Liberal Hearts and Coronets written by Veronica Strong-Boag and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superbly written and informed by decades of research, Liberal Hearts and Coronets is the first biography to treat John Campbell Gordon as seriously as his better-known wife, Ishbel Marjoribanks Gordon.
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Download or read book Athens Its Rise and Fall written by Edward Bulwer Lytton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 1089 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athens: Its Rise and Fall, originally published in 1837, is the most important and readable of the Victorian histories of ancient Greece. It stands alongside Macauley and Carlyle as a great historical work of British Romanticism, and anticipates the thinking of George Grote and John Stuart Mill on Greek history by over a decade. Originally published in two volumes, this new one-volume edition includes the text of the never-before published 'third volume' on which he was working at the time of his death, recently rediscovered by Oxford academic Oswyn Murray. An absolute must for any scholar of ancient Greece.
Download or read book Athens Its Rise and Fall Complete written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Athens: Its Rise and Fall" is the most significant and well-written history of ancient Greece by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, one of Britain's most famous historical novelists. It gives valuable insight into the advancement of civilization, from superstitions to a desire for freedom and representative government.
Download or read book Athens written by Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
