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1) Steve Jobs
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years, as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues, the author has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 251 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The youngest of her parents' combined twenty-one children, Frey moved out of her family home and started her own fresh produce delivery business at fifteen. Two years later, when the family farm faced foreclosure, she took over the farm and started her own produce company there. Refusing to play by traditional rules, Frey talked her way into suit-filled boardrooms and made deals with the nation's largest retailers. Today her family-operated company,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Leadership, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xvi, 224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Discover how Brooks Running Company CEO Jim Weber transformed a failing business into a billion-dollar brand in the ultracompetitive global running market.
This leadership memoir starts with Jim Weber's seventh-grade dream to run a successful company that delivered something people passionately valued. Fast forward to 2001, Jim Weber became the CEO of Brooks. He was on his way to fulfilling his dream, but he faced strong headwinds. Jim was the struggling...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 378 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
People know who Stephen Schwarzman is -- at least they think they do. He's the man who took $400,000 and co-founded Blackstone, the investment firm that manages over $500 billion (as of January 2019). He's the billionaire philanthropist who founded Schwarzman Scholars, this century's version of the Rhodes Scholarship, in China. But behind these achievements is a man who has spent his life learning and reflecting on what it takes to achieve excellence,...
Author
Publisher
Legacy Lit
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 242 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A riveting memoir by the former CEO of Black Entertainment Television (BET), about the glamorous and ugly moments of being a high-powered Black woman executive in the entertainment industry"--
From being a shy “good girl” growing up in Greensboro to gracing major stages and having personal friends like President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, Lee writes about the invisibility she felt in rooms where she was the only woman or only...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
September 2001. Immelt replaced Jack Welch at the helm of General Electric. Less than a week into his tenure, the 9/11 terrorist attacks shook the nation, and the company, to its core. GE-financed planes powered by GE-manufactured engines had just destroyed real estate that was insured by GE-issued policies. Immelt knew his response would set the tone for businesses everywhere that looked to GE for direction. Welch had handed over a company that had...