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Displaced Persons
'Recommended for a wide range of readers, and a perfect book club choice.' - Library Journal, starred review
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Michael J. Sandel
Michael J. Sandel’s "Justice" course is one of the most popular and influential at Harvard. Interested readers can take a seat in the lecture hall alongside Harvard College students, thanks to a 2009 PBS lecture series....
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Carol Lynch Williams
Carol Lynch Williams discussed The Chosen One, and what inspired her to write a book about polygamy.
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C. W. Gortner
A video interview with C.W. Gortner in which he talks about his 2010 historical novel, The Confessions of Catherine de Medici.
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Vanessa Woods
Vanessa Woods discusses her first book, Bonobo Handshake, and her experiences with the extrarodinary Bonobos.
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Summary and Book Reviews |
Winning: Summary and book reviews of Winning by Jack Welch, plus links to an excerpt from Winning and a biography of Jack Welch. |
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Book Summary
Jack Welch knows how to win. During his forty-year career at General
Electric, he led the company to year-after-year success around the globe, in
multiple markets, against brutal competition. His honest, be-the-best style of
management became the gold standard in business, with his relentless focus on
people, teamwork, and profits.
Since Welch retired in 2001 as chairman and chief executive officer of GE, he
has traveled the world, speaking to more than 250,000 people and answering their
questions on dozens of wide-ranging topics.
Inspired by his audiences and their hunger for straightforward guidance,
Welch has written both a philosophical and pragmatic book, which is destined to
become the bible of business for generations to come. It clearly lays out the
answers to the most difficult questions people face both on and off the job.
Welch's objective is to speak to people at every level of an organization, in
companies large and small. His audience is everyone from line workers to MBAs,
from project managers to senior executives. His goal is to help everyone who has
a passion for success.
Welch begins Winning with an introductory section called "Underneath It All,"
which describes his business philosophy. He explores the importance of values,
candor, differentiation, and voice and dignity for all.
The core of Winning is devoted to the real "stuff" of work. This main part of
the book is split into three sections. The first looks inside the company, from
leadership to picking winners to making change happen. The second section looks
outside, at the competition, with chapters on strategy, mergers, and Six Sigma,
to name just three. The next section of the book is about managing your career
-- from finding the right job to achieving work-life balance.
Welch's optimistic, no excuses, get-it-done mind-set is riveting. Packed with
personal anecdotes and written in Jack's distinctive no b.s. voice, Winning
offers deep insights, original thinking, and solutions to nuts-and-bolts
problems that will change the way people think about work.
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Media Reviews
USA Today
Welch dispense the sharp-edged business acumen...He is giving back what he learned, and not just to fellow CEO's. He is able to write a book that might just reach the rest of us.
Newsweek
..smart, practical and not afraid to address tough subjects.
The Wall Street Journal
The right stuff -- Mr. Welch offers knowing descriptions of dilemmas and problems that are all too common in American business life, and he proposes a few ideas for solving them.
Business Week
...candid and accessible...insights and wisdom to share.
Bill Gates
A candid and comprehensive look at how to succeed in business-for everyone from college graduates to CEOs.
Tom Brokaw
Reading Jack Welch's plain-language, high-energy book Winning is like getting the playbook of the Super Bowl champions before the game. It's a big head start on how to master the corporate game from the entry level to the corporate suites. He is the master.
Warren Buffett
When you talk with Jack about management, his energy and passion fill the room. You get a similar experience with this book-the same qualities jump at you from every page.
Rudy Guilliani
Jack Welch lays out a readable, detailed, step-by-step plan that anyone can use to become a true winner. Using real-life examples and the same tell-it-like-it-is style that helped reinvigorate General Electric, Welch describes how Americans can succeed in both their careers and in their personal lives
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Recent Reader Reviews
Rated  of 5
by Shekhar
A must read for every Corporate person ...
Excellent book with frank, open views. Lots to learn from this book.
Rated of 5
by Sadjia Lassami
Highly recommed any talent to read
This is an excellent book, I have attended many international programs and most of them if not all refer as best practice to what Jack Welch did in GE.
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Brodeck
Phillipe Claudel |
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Set in an unnamed time and place, Brodeck blends the familiar and unfamiliar, myth and history into a work of extraordinary power and resonance. Readers of J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace, Bernhard Schlink's The Reader and Kafka will be captivated by Brodeck. |
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici
C. W. Gortner |
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From the fairy-tale châteaux of the Loire Valley to the battlefields of the wars of religion to the mob-filled streets of Paris, The Confessions of Catherine de Medici is the extraordinary untold journey of one of the most maligned and misunderstood women ever to be queen. |
Bonobo Handshake
Vanessa Woods |
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A young woman follows her fiancé to war-torn Congo to study extremely endangered bonobo apes - who teach her a new truth about love and belonging. |
Rock Paper Tiger
Lisa Brackmann |
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American Ellie Cooper, deserted by her husband, has made a number of friends in China. But suddenly one of them disappears, and security organizations are hounding her for information. Contacted through an online role-playing game by a group claiming to be friends of Lao Zhang asking her for... |
Beirut 39
Samuel Shimon |
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An exciting collection of the best new writing from the Arab world, by thirty-nine writers under thirty-nine. |
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Brooklyn Bridge by Karen Hesse |
| I'm a ten year old girl who recently read this book. It was a deep, yet fun confection about growing up in the early 1900's, the time where New York ...
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Zeitoun by Dave Eggers |
| This book is important, yet has been largely overlooked by reviewers and book clubs. It's not just a history of Hurricane Katrina, but a personal ...
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Three Cups of Tea by David O. Relin |
| This book is an amazing read. I opened it last week and I couldn't put it down. I cried a few times because I was overwhelmed by this man's ...
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