Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&browse=true&N=3+3662 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712788 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693629 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693641 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743602 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705057 A journey into the highly secretive world of the processed food giants, and the story of how they have deployed the three essential ingredients, sugar, salt, and fat, over the past five decades, to dominate the North American diet. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711688 Traces the rise of the processed food industry and how addictive salt, sugar, and fat have enabled its dominance in the past half century, revealing deliberate corporate practices behind current trends in obesity, diabetes, and other health challenges. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1544358 Highlights achievements of Bell Labs as a leading innovator, exploring the role of its highly educated employees in developing new technologies while considering the qualities of companies where innovation and development are most successful. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615552 During the most dizzying days of the financial crisis, Washington Mutual, a bank with hundreds of billions of dollars in its coffers, suffered a crippling bank run. The story of its final, brutal collapse in the autumn of 2008, and its controversial sale to JPMorgan Chase, is an astonishing account of how one bank lost itself to greed and mismanagement and how the entire financial industry--and even the entire country--lost its way as well. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1669146 An engrossing, often scandalous saga of one of the wealthiest, longest-lasting, and most colorful family dynasties in the history of American commerce; a cautionary tale about prosperity, profligacy, hubris, and the blessings and dark consequences of success. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743865 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1621951 During the most dizzying days of the financial crisis, Washington Mutual, a bank with hundreds of billions of dollars in its coffers, suffered a crippling bank run. The story of its final, brutal collapse in the autumn of 2008, and its controversial sale to JPMorgan Chase, is an astonishing account of how one bank lost itself to greed and mismanagement and how the entire financial industry--and even the entire country--lost its way as well. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667382 Interweaves history, anecdotes, and analysis with more than one hundred interviews with Marvel insiders to reveal how Marvel, which introduced brightly costumed caped crusaders in the 1960s, became one of the most dominant pop cultural forces in contemporary America. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392491 From modest beginnings as a tea shop in New York, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company became the largest retailer in the world. It was a juggernaut, the first retailer to sell 1 billion dollars in goods, the owner of nearly sixteen thousand stores and dozens of factories and warehouses. But its explosive growth made it a mortal threat to hundreds of thousands of mom-and-pop grocery stores. Main Street fought back tooth and nail, enlisting the state and federal governments to stop price discounting, tax chain stores, and require manufacturers to sell to mom and pop at the same prices granted to giant retailers. In a remarkable court case, the federal government pressed criminal charges against the Great A&P for selling food too cheaply -- and won. The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America is the story of a stunningly successful company that forever changed how Americans shop and what Americans eat. It is a brilliant business history, the story of how George and John Hartford took over their fathers business and reshaped it again and again, turning it into a vertically integrated behemoth that paved the way for every big-box retailer to come. George demanded a rock-solid balance sheet; John was the marketer-entrepreneur who led A&P through seven decades of rapid changes. Together, they built the modern consumer economy by turning the archaic retail industry into a highly efficient system for distributing food at low cost. - Publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1306425 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392520 What is the arrogance cycle? Weve just lived through it. As market bubbles build, our confidence level rises (dis)proportionately. Everyone wants in on the action. We want to believe Wall Street, and once we do, the inevitable happens. Like Dr. Frankenstein breathing life into inanimate flesh, investment professionals sought ever more novel ways to create wealth. The only problem was that it was all artificial. In The Arrogance Cycle, Farr examines the forces at work on individuals and markets and explains in clear, concise layman terms how we got to where we are. He focuses on individual factors such as rampant consumerism, a sense of entitlement, narcissism, resentment toward the upper class and more that combined to create the perfect economic storm. By consulting with leading psychologists and relaying first hand experience with investment clients, Farr provides a case study of the arrogant investor. Throughout the book, he sifts through the wreckage of previous crashes and downturns and finds us the proverbial black box of evidence to support his contention that collectively we are the ones responsible. Farr examines the influence of popular culture; the expansion of consumer credit, and the governments ill timed and poorly executed encouragement of home ownership, outrageous increases in executive compensation, immunity from accountability, and so on. In reviewing failed enterprises like WorldCom, Adelphia, Enron, AIG, Lehman Brothers, and Bear Sterns and the illegal activities of Bernie Madoff and others through the lens of arrogance, the book sheds light on those disasters and offers a means to detect the insidious presence of arrogance so that in the future we can contain the damage before it spreads-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1226693 The inside story of the founding and growth of Taylor Guitars, one of the worlds most successful guitar manufacturers Bob Taylor mixes the details of his experience as a tradesman and cofounder of Taylor Guitars, a world-famous acoustic and electric guitar manufacturer, with philosophical life lessons that have practical application for building a business. From the a-ha moment in junior high school that inspired his very first guitar, Taylor has been living the American dream, crafting quality products with his own hands and building a successful, sustainable business. In Guitar Lessons, he shares the values that he lives by and that have provided the foundation for the companys success. Be inspired by a story of guts and gumption, an unwavering commitment to quality, and the hard lessons that made Taylor Guitars the company it is today-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1303777 Written with full cooperation from top management at Google, this is the story behind the most successful and admired technology company of our time. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1544316 Full of inspired wisdom, Tough Cookies describes the Girl Scouts transformative journey to become and integrated, unified movement for girls. Learn how this massive non-profit addressed its most pressing challenges, including how to rebrand itself not just as a gaggle of cute girls selling cookies and camping, but as the most important organization for girl culture; create the worlds best personal leadership development model for girls; provide efficient and effective governance to deliver scouting to girls; make it easier for volunteers to lead troops; attract donors; remain democratic and mission-focused throughout the merger process. ... Discover how lessons from Girl Scouts of the USA can help your organization achieve such lasting success--Dust jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1304252 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298945 Describes the career-making decisions of nearly forty of Americas most successful business leaders and the lessons they learned along the way, and includes an appendix of professional advice. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1304234 With no business education or experience, twenty-five-year-old Fitzpatrick had only a $1,500 cash advance and a passion for chocolate-dipped strawberries when she started a home-based business. Today, she is the founder of a multimillion-dollar company and the owner of the Berry Factory, which provides the nation with her brand of gourmet berries. She has built a lucrative career simply by doing what she loves, and now she shares her secrets and tips. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1201512 The takeover of one of the most well-known and beloved American brands by a Belgian company controlled by Brazilians is a drama that went largely unreported in 2008, coming as it did in the midst of a economic crisis of unimaginable proportions. Julie MacIntosh, the leading reporter worldwide covering the story, toiled away, found much of her reporting for the Financial Times cut to give space to the economic crisis, at the time a far larger story. When the dust settles, there will be questions, if not curiosity in how Americans let one of their most treasured brands be captured by foreigners. An American family dynasty will surely take the blame for their poor management, familial infighting, and just plain bizarre behavior. This narrative of a classic dynasty taken down will become required reading in business courses--as business has become all about brands, so getting the right brands is the new game of business.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1351617 Nintendo has continually set the standard for video game innovation in America, and the saga of Mario, the portly plumber who became the most successful franchise in the history of gaming, has plot twists worthy of a video game. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1378389 Focusing on the Super Mario franchise, Jeff Ryan chronicles Nintendos rise in North America. Here, Ryan explains how Mario became the best selling franchise in video game history and reveals how Nintendo has reinvented itself over and over again to stay one step ahead in the market. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393535 This book is the story of the rise, fall, and rebirth of the Big Three U.S. automakers, General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler. The author, the Detroit bureau chief for the New York Times and author of Taken for a Ride, takes readers inside the Big Three U.S. automakers for the rise and fall, and rise again? of this quintessentially American industry. This work is more than a business history. It offers a view of the present day automobile industry and of Detroit, the city that spawned it, going far beyond the corporate and federal maneuverings to explore the impact the car companies failures have had on the overall economy, and more importantly what they have done to peoples lives. It is a journey deep inside the American automobile industry. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1304244 The true story of how risk destroys, as told through the ongoing saga of AIG. From the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, the subject of the financial crisis has been well covered. However, the story central to the crisis-that of AIG-has until now remained largely untold. Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIGs Corporate Suicide tells the inside story of what really went on inside AIG that caused it to choke on risk and nearly bringing down the entire economic system. The book reveals inside information available nowhere else, including the personal notes and records of key players such as the former Chairman of AIG, Hank Greenberg. Takes readers behind the scenes at the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Details how an understanding of risk built AIG, but a disdain for government regulators led to a run-in with New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Fatal Risk is the comprehensive and compelling true story of the company at the center of the financial storm and how it nearly caused the entire economic system to collapse.-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1651125 In this no-secret-left-uncovered look at the rise and fall of the Forbes family, veteran financial journalist Stewart Pinkerton, who worked there for 20 years, brings to life the often incredible machinations and foibles of a century-old media dynasty that rose to glittering heights and crashed just as spectacularly. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1299056 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1185508 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1048362 An expos of what the authors identify as leadership failures by top American CEOs reveals their direct role in present-day economic challenges, explaining how board-room culpability and appropriate compensation packages can be strategically improved. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1170220 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1087122 Ward takes you inside Lehmans highly charged offices where youll meet beloved leaders who were erased from the corporate history books, but who could have taken the firm in a very different direction had they not fallen victim to infighting and their own weaknesses. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1129482 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1185724 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1111875 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1150030 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1129345 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1020102 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=994751 What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers--right from the belly of the beast--arguing that this collapse need not have happened. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1020725 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1014777 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1008988 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=938122 William D. Cohans superb and shocking narrative chronicles the fall of Bear Stearns and the end of the Second Gilded Age on Wall Street, explaining how a combination of risky bets, corporate political infighting, lax government regulations and truly bad decision-making wrought havoc on the world financial system. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=996970 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1271360 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=655633 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=642739 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=672681 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=613802 The book identifies the nine Gatorade Rules, business principles that have helped Gatorade become one of the most dominant brands ever. By adhering to these principles, businesses in other industries may achieve greater brand recognition and market share. Long before America knew what deep-down body thirst was, a team of university scientists had already invented something to quench it. First in Thirst is the story of the product and the company, and of Americas fascination with the one and only Gatorade.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=651154 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=691317 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=651493 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=614457 The definitive portrait of the juggernaut that is reshaping America, The Bully of Bentonville exposes the zealous, secretive, small-town mentality ruling Wal-Mart and chronicles its far reaching consequences. In a richly textured narrative, Anthony Bianco shows how Wal-Mat has driven down retail wages throughout the country, even as its substandard pay scale and meager health-care policy have led to double-digit employee turnover; how its aggressive expansion inevitably puts locally owned stores out of business; and how its pricing policies have forced suppliers to outsource work and move thousands of jobs overseas. Its power even influences what Americans can read, watch, and listen to; in the name of protecting its customers, Wal-Mart bans racy magazines and insists on sanitized versions of popular DVDs and CDs. Based on interviews with Wal-Mart employees, managers, executives, competitors, suppliers, customers, and community leaders, The Bully of Bentonville illuminates the story behind the headlines and brings the facts about Wal-Mart into sharp focus.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=617633 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=651628 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=647954 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=642741 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=653565 In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the story of the containers creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about. Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the first container voyage, this is the first comprehensive history of the shipping container. It recounts how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur, Malcolm McLean, turned containerization from an impractical idea into a massive industry that slashed the cost of transporting goods around the world.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=646537 DisneyWar is the breathtaking, dramatic inside story of what drove Americas best-known entertainment company to civil war. With access to both Michael Eisner and Roy Disney, company executives and board members, as well as letters and documents never before seen, James B. Stewart gets to the bottom of mysteries that have enveloped Disney for years. Here, too, is the creative process that lies at the heart of Disney, from the making of the movies to the glittering array of stars, directors, designers, artists, and producers. No other book so thoroughly penetrates the secretive world of the corporate boardroom. DisneyWar is an enthralling true story of one of Americas most powerful media and entertainment companies, the people who control it, and those trying to overthrow them. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=674186 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=613571 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=721372 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=549624 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=546620 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=611350 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=552178 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=629156 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=614475 Shelf Life is the unforgettable story of A. J. Scribante, the founder of MAJERS, a revolutionary company whose cutting-edge information and marketing systems helped manufacturers and grocers move their products through American supermarket shelves. Before being sold to the A. C. Nielsen division of Dun and Bradstreet Corporation for $65 million in December 1986, MAJERS had six hundred employees, seven offices, and three hundred-fifty clients. But A. J. Scribantes success story had very humble roots. Growing up in a succession of small Midwestern towns, he served in the navy, graduated from Kansas State University, and moved to Omaha, Nebraska, where as a young chemical salesman for Union Carbide he was soon distracted by a need for a lifes mission, manifested by a desire to fill shelves. He began with a process for freezing ice cream with liquid nitrogen (one of the chemicals he was selling). But his first entrepreneurial enterprise only got him fired. So he struck out on his own, selling almost everything that crossed his path before finding what he was certain would be his gold mine: bleach. Seeking to discover how to best market his Brite*Eyes bleach in various markets, Scribante began clipping grocery store ads from newspapers around the Midwest, and, in a flash of entrepreneurial inspiration - which practically everyone around him took as a crazy idea - began compiling the ads in a booklet to show fellow suppliers, grocers, and manufacturers the price differences for products in far-flung markets. The booklet of ads evolved into MAJERS, a full-service computerized marketing information company whose clients included Pepsi, Coca-Cola, General Foods, and Pillsbury. His amazing story is enlightening, instructive, inspirational, and a very fun read.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=644609 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=542169 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=543224 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=546621 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=645475 Business lessons from the leader in the multibilliondollar scrapbook industry. Its a classic American success story: CherylLightle, once an unemployed single mom, goes on to become the cofounder of one ofthe most successful direct selling companies in the United States. Creative Memories reveals the 10 guiding principles she used to create her scrapbooking empire, teaching readers how to use these principles to achieve success in their own lives. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=549031 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1372327 Chronicles the best and the worst of Apple Computers remarkable story. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=473721 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=645410 Ford Tough tells the inspiring story of Bill Ford, scion of one of Americas most celebrated business dynasties, and his heroic battle to revive and reshape Ford Motor Company. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=546687 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=499931 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=470341 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=470112 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=464342 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=464338 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=573448 IBM and the Holocaust is the story of IBMs strategic alliance with Nazi Germany - beginning in 1933 in the first weeks that Hitler came to power and continuing well into World War II. As the Third Reich embarked upon its plan of conquest and genocide, IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the selections of the 1940s. Only after Jews were identified - a massive and complex task that Hitler wanted done immediately - could they be targeted for efficient asset confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, enslaved labor, and, ultimately, annihilation. It was a cross-tabulation and organizational challenge so monumental, it called for a computer. Of course, in the 1930s, no computer existed. But IBMs Hollerith punch card technology did exist. Aided by the companys custom-designed and constantly updated Hollerith systems, Hitler was able to automate his persecution of the Jews. Historians have always been amazed at the speed and accuracy with which the Nazis were able to identify and locate European Jewry. Until now, the pieces of this puzzle have never been fully assembled. The fact is, IBM technology was used to organize nearly everything in Germany and then Nazi Europe, from the identification of the Jews in censuses, registrations, and ancestral tracing programs to the running of railroads and organizing of concentration camp slave labor. IBM and the Holocaust takes you through the carefully crafted corporate collusion with the Third Reich, as well as the structured deniability of oral agreements, undated letters, and the Geneva intermediaries - all undertaken as the newspapers blazed with accounts of persecution and destruction.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=310626 Citizen Coors is the saga of an American dynasty. From the moment the destitute Prussian Adolph Coors stows away on a Baltimore-bound ship in 1868 to the worldwide expansion of the billion-dollar Coors Brewing Company, Citizen Coors is a headlong American tale of triumph over bare-knuckle competition. The Coors family does it the old-fashioned way, through fearsome devotion to product, rejection of modern marketing, and refusing to borrow so much as a nickel. But the family almost rides its principles into the ground. Nobody will ever choose a beer on the basis of a thirty-second ad, Bill Coors is fond of saying at a time when his two main competitors, Anheuser-Busch and Miller, are spending upward of a billion dollars a year on ads. He wont even allow a ring-pull can. The brewerys decline and recovery are dizzying. But Citizen Coors is more than a business story. Citizen Coors is finally a chronicle of how America was shaped politically in the last three decades of the twentieth century. For along with the Coors familys adherence to handshake integrity and old-world craft came some less roseate ideals from the nineteenth century: that disparity of wealth is proper, that government efforts to achieve social equality are illegitimate, that the Bible is the rule book for intimate conduct, and that capital must never bow to labor. The Coors family forever changed the American political landscape by creating the Heritage Foundation and a right-wing TV network, by financing the conservative shift in Congress, and by being early backers of a politically ambitious B-movie actor named Ronald Reagan. Based on more than 150 interviews, Citizen Coors serves up a powerful cocktail of beer and politics. Dan Baum captures in this narrative the genius, eccentricity, and tragic weaknesses of the remarkable Coors family.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=292834 Business historian Charles Geisst traces the rise of monopolies from the railroad era to todays computer software empires. The history of monopolies has been dominated by strong and charismatic personalities. Geisst tells the stories behind the individuals - from John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie to Harold Geneen and Bill Gates - who forged these business empires with genius, luck, and an often ruthless disregard for fair competition. He also analyzes the viewpoints of their equally colorful critics, from Louis Brandeis to Ralph Nader. These figures enliven the narrative, offering insight into how large businesses accumulate power.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=283268 Michael Lewis sets out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the worlds most important technology entrepreneur, the true representative of the coming age. All roads lead to a man who is about to achieve an unprecedented hat trick with the creation of his third, separate, billion-dollar company: first Silicon Graphics, then Netscape - which launched the Information Age - and now Healtheon, a startup that may turn the $1.5 trillion health-care industry on its head. Despite the variety of his achievements, this guy, Jim Clark, thinks of himself mainly as the creator of Hyperion, which happens to be a sailboat ... not just an ordinary yacht, but the worlds largest single-mast vessel, a machine more complex than a 747. Whatever the next new new thing after Healtheon turns out to be, Michael Lewis is invited to be a fly on the wall aboard Hyperion as the shape of the future is revealed. We get the inside story of the battle between Netscape and Microsoft; we sit in the room as Healtheon management pitches the investment bankers on the idea that Healtheon is the next Microsoft; we get queasy as the great boat sets out into the rage of the North Atlantic in winter. The New New Thing describes a vast paradigm shift in American culture: a shift away from conventional business models and definitions of success, and toward a new way of thinking about the world and our control over it.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=378699 The Sound Bite Society asks if relevision has served democracy. Scheuers answer? A definite no. Scheuer believes our political culture has been demeaned - leaders replaced with clowns, ideology with eye candy, and debate with pairs of pontificating parrots. The Sound Bite Society is crucial to anyone interested - on either side of the spectrum - in understanding and changing the circus that our political landscape has become.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=323372 Vision and Enterprise offers readers a sense of the historical role played by a company whose name has never been a household word; yet Phelps Dodge copper wire helped to extend Americas first transcontinental telegraph line to the West Coast in 1861; Phelps Dodge copper and brass provided the plumbing and wiring needed for the revolution in household systems in the early years of this century; and during World War II, the company secretly manufactured special metallic pipelines that stretched beneath the English Channel to supply petroleum to Allied fighting forces. Over the years, more than 60 million pounds of Phelps Dodge copper have ended up as rivets in Levi jeans. Today its transportation, energy-delivery, and voice and data transmission products enhance the standard of living for people in the worlds established and emerging markets. Researched and illustrated with over 200 photographs, Vision and Enterprise weaves together the story of several generations of Phelps Dodge leaders who successfully adjusted the corporations angle of vision in response to the changing business climate while holding fast to many of the core values established by its founders. It makes a unique contribution to the history of the United States and the evolution of industry by considering the changing face of labor, the environment, and technology from one dynamic companys point of view.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=272903 The inside story of how one of Americas most beloved companies - Apple Computer - took off like a high-tech rocket-only to come crashing to Earth twenty years later. How did Apple lose its way? Why did the world still care so deeply about a company that had lost its leadership position? Michael S. Malone, from the unique vantage point of having grown up with the companys founders, and having covered Apple and Silicon Valley for years, sets out to tell the gripping behind-the-scenes story - a story that is even zanier than the business world thought. In essence, Malone claims, with only a couple of incredible inventions (the Apple II and Macintosh), and backed by an arrogance matched only by its corporate ineptitude, Apple managed to create a multibillion-dollar house of cards. And, like a faulty program repeating itself in an infinite loop, Apple could never learn from its mistakes. The miracle was not that Apple went into free fall, but that it held up for so long. Within the pages of Infinite Loop, we discover a bruising portrait of the megalomaniacal Steve Jobs and an incompetent John Sculley, as well as the kind of political backstabbings, stupid mistakes, and overweening egos more typical of a soap opera than a corporate history.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=276188 In How the Web Was Won, veteran Seattle Times journalist Paul Andrews chronicles, for the first time, the most remarkable business turnaround of the 1990s: the story of Microsofts turbulent journey from Windows to the Web - and of the handful of internet believers who led the charge. Taking the reader into the mind of Microsoft, Andrews reveals how the company struggled first to comprehend and then capitalize on the Net. How twenty-two-year-old Internet hound J. Allard was shocked to learn that nobody at Microsoft seemed to know anything about networking computers when he arrived in late 1991. How Steve Ballmer, Gatess Harvard buddy and second in command at Microsoft, lit the internet fuse with a head-scratching e-mail in December 1993. How Gatess technical assistant Steven Sinotsky discovered in early 1994 that Cornell University, his alma mater, was more wired than the worlds most successful software company. And how by mid-1995, awash in the rising tide of Netscape, America Online, Java, and the Web, Bill Gates assigned the internet the highest level of importance, launching an effort that, in a matter of months, would provoke the justice Department, competitors, and industry analysts to warn that Microsoft could someday rule the internet.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=288412 For twenty years New York Citys Books & Co. was one of the premier independent bookstores in the country. Bookstore is the story of this legendary institution and its determined founder, Jeannette Watson. With the help of the voices of such writers (and store habitues) as Roy Blount Jr., Brendan Gill, Calvin Trillin, Susan Cheever, Susan Sontag, Fran Lebowitz, and many more, Bookstore describes the inner workings of a great store and goes beyond the stores walls to explore the state of publishing and bookselling in a time when the very landscape of the written word has shifted radically.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=282300 Money, Greed, and Risk lends new insights into the causes of financial turmoil. Charles Morris: explores the eternal cycle of financial crises from brilliant innovation to gross excess and inevitable crash, before investors and institutions catch up; explains why the American financial system grew from a capital-starved backwater in the nineteenth century to one that plays the leading role in the world today; examines the technological, economic, demographic, and industrial experiences that caused the financial engine to kick into such high gear in the 1980s and 1990s; shows how the boom-and-bust cycle in early American history helps illuminate recent events in South Asia and Russia; explains that globalization is nothing new - The investment system in the nineteenth century was perhaps even more global than the world today; and looks at contemporary financial geniuses - Michael Milken is a good example - and shows that they didnt invent any financial instruments that nineteenth-century counterparts like Jay Gould hadnt already thought of.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=282523 Alison J. Clarke shows how the party plan direct sales system, by creating a corporate culture based on womens domestic lives, played a greater role than patented seals and streamlined design in the success of Tupperware. Drawing from newly available records and interviews, Clarke describes how Tupperware Home Parties, Inc., reinforced a conservative ideal while undercutting that ideal by offering women economic independence through a flexible, home-based form of employment. Tracing the fortunes of Earl Tuppers polyethylene containers from early design to global distribution, the author explains how Tupperware tapped into potent commercial and social forces, becoming a prevailing symbol of late twentieth-century consumer culture.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=271770 Forrest Mars and Milton Hershey built business empires out of chocolate. In this history of the candy business, over eight years in the making, former Washington Post reporter Joel Glenn Brenner tells a unique story that is like chocolate itself, a rich blend of many compelling ingredients - in this case, biography and cultural history, investigative reporting and literary journalism. Along the way, Brenner takes us inside a world as mysterious as Willy Wonkas Chocolate Factory where industrial spies jockey for inside information as paranoid executives fight an all-out war for Americas sweet tooth. Forrest Mars, often called the Howard Hughes of candy, was one of the most successful (and private) entrepreneurs in America, a brilliant autocrat who built a unique $20-billion-a-year empire. Milton Hershey was a dreamer who wanted to create not just a company but an industrial paradise, and after making an immense fortune, he promptly gave it all away. To this day, the Hershey company is controlled by a charitable trust and its profits fund the wealthiest orphanage in the world.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=645512 Jack Welchs innovative leadership strategies revived a lagging GE, transforming it into a powerhouse with a staggering $300 billion-plus market capitalization. In writing Jack Welch and the GE way, author Robert Slater was given unprecedented access to Welch and other prominent GE insiders. What emerged is a brilliant portrait that tells you what makes Jack Welch tick. Learn how to work the Welch magic on your own company as you find out how he dismantled the boundaries between management layers, between engineers and marketers, between GE and its customers to streamline the process of getting products and services to market. Get details on Welchs far-reaching six sigma quality initiative, and discover how its principles and standards can save billions of dollars, how and why he has made GE a truly global company (and why you must think global as well) and all the other Welch midas touch strategies you can put to work in your organization, at every level! http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=273455 When Roberto Goizueta fled Fidel Castros Cuba in 1960, he had just $200 in his pocket and 100 shares of Coca-Cola stock in a New York bank. He also had a job at the Coca-Cola Co. By the time he died in 1997, the Coca-Cola chairman was worth $1 billion and had transformed Coke from a doddering giant into one of the worlds most successful and admired companies. Under his leadership, Cokes stock price jumped 3500%, the company tripled in size, and it controlled nearly half of the worlds soft drink market. Id Like the World to Buy a Coke takes a candid look at the life and career of one of the longest-serving and highest-paid chief executives in history. Greising chronicles every phase in a career fraught with surprising twists and turns, from Goizuetas watershed decision to break away from his father and work for Coke, to his flight from Cuba, to his grooming for the chairmans job and the bitter battle for Cokes corner office. The book gives previously unpublished insight into Cokes conquest of eastern Europe and push for truly worldwide distribution, its controversial hiring of the Hollywood talent agency behind the Always Coca-Cola campaign, Goizuetas behind-the-scenes push to bring the Olympics to Atlanta, and his careful selection of his own successor, years before his sudden death from lung cancer in October 1997.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=284051 These are the memoirs of Fred Dodge (1854-1938), Wells Fargo secret agent for fifty years, friend of Wyatt Earp, and fast man with a gun. Here are dozens of his cases - stage robberies, train holdups, long pursuits through the badlands, even suits against Wells Fargo for delay to a corpse and the bite of a vicious horse. In Under Cover for Wells Forgo his unvarshished recollections are preserved and carefully edited by Carolyn Lake, who discovered Dodges journals among Stuart N. Lakes papers, awaiting a biography that was never written.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=292326 In Stop and Sell the Roses, Jim McCann shares the secrets he learned along his unique road to success, a journey that began in one of New Yorks toughest neighborhoods and resulted in a multimillion-dollar business. Learn from McCann how to build invaluable loyalty through emotional bonds; pick the technology that frees up your creative time; harness the awesome power of the brand; prepare for crunch times and stay tough when business is slow; make money on the Internet by reaching beyond the computer screen; hire passionate people; leapfrog from job to job with an eye to your long-term success; and much more.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=148321 This engaging collection features twenty-six Hobsbawm essays covering the history of working men and women between the late eighteenth century and today, bringing back into print Hobsbawms pioneering studies in labor history along with more recent, previously unpublished pieces. Uncommon People shows the range of Hobsbawms work, on such subjects as the formation of the British working class, revolution and sex, and socialism and the avant garde. From essays on Mario Puzo and the mafia, to the Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano and the cultural consequences of Christopher Columbus, Hobsbawms passionate concern for the lives and struggles of ordinary men and women shines through.--BOOK JACKET.