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Love Your Imposter: Be Your Best Self, Flaws and All
Par Rita Clifton. 2020
Studies show that a massive 70% of people feel like an imposter at some point in their professional life. Brand…
guru and former Chair of Interbrand, Rita Clifton, shares how she learnt to work with her imposter self rather than hide from it in order to succeed in her career. Imposter syndrome can cause a constant fear of being found out that you aren't 'good enough' or called out for being a 'fraud'. It impacts people in different ways and can be debilitating and negatively affect relationships, personal life and careers. So what can you do about it? Love Your Imposter shows you how to take on your imposter self and use it as a driver to come out stronger. Using practical down-to-earth advice based on her experiences, Rita Clifton, tackles the myth that you need to 'fake it until you make it', highlights why authenticity can be your biggest weapon and skilfully makes the case for business being more humane.The New Corporation: How "Good" Corporations Are Bad for Democracy
Par Joel Bakan. 2020
From the author of The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power comes this deeply informed and unflinching look…
at the way corporations have slyly rebranded themselves as socially conscious entities ready to tackle society's problems, while CEO compensation soars, income inequality is at all-time highs, and democracy sits in aprecarious situation.Over the last decade and a half, business leaders, Silicon Valley executives, and the Davos elite have been calling for a new kind of capitalism. The writing was on the wall. With income inequality soaring, wages stagnating, and aclimate crisis escalating, it was no longer viable to justify harming the environment and ducking taxes in the name of shareholder value. Business leaders realized that to get out in front of these problems, they had to makesocial and environmental values the very core of their messaging. Their essential pitch was: Who could be better suited to address major societal issues than efficiently run corporations? There is just one small problem with theirdoing well by doing good pitch. Corporations are still, ultimately, answerable to their shareholders, and doing well always comes first.This essential truth lies at the heart of Joel Bakan's argument. In lucid and engaging prose, Bakan lays bare a litany of immoral corporate actions and documents corporate power grabs dressed up as social initiatives. He makesclear the urgency of the problem of the corporatization of society itself and shows how people are fighting back and making gains on a grassroots level.Restaurant Man
Par Joe Bastianich. 2012
The best funniest most revealing inside look at the restaurant biz since Anthony Bourdain s Kitchen Confidential …
--Jay McInerney With a new foreword by Mario Batali Joe Bastianich is unquestionably one of the most successful restaurateurs in America--if not the world So how did a nice Italian boy from Queens turn his passion for food and wine into an empire In Restaurant Man Joe charts a remarkable journey that first began in his parents neighborhood eatery Along the way he shares fascinating stories about his establishments and his superstar chef par tners--his mother Lidia Bastianich and Mario Batali Ever since Anthony Bourdain whet literary palates with Kitchen Confidential restaurant memoirs have been mainstays of the bestseller lists Serving up equal parts rock n roll and hard-ass business reality Restaurant Man is a compelling ragu-to-riches chronicle that foodies businessmen and aspiring restauranteurs alike will be hankering to readMaster of None: How a Jack-of-All-Trades Can Still Reach the Top
Par Clifford Hudson. 2020
In this revelatory memoir, the former CEO of Sonic challenges established thinking, offering counterintuitive career advice essential for every professional…
at all levels, whether you're just starting out or in the middle of your career.In his bestselling Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell introduced readers to the 10,000-hour rule—the foundation of success in any endeavor. But as Clifford Hudson reveals, there are serious pitfalls to this rule. What happens to those who spend years trying to achieve something that doesn’t quite pan out? Do you really have to grind down the same path for many years, sacrificing priorities to become successful? In this thought-provoking memoir, Hudson asks whether or not mastery is even necessary to succeed. Most people don't need to be experts in their field. Yes, the successful know more than the average person about a particular topic, and they often possess a better-than-average ability with a particular skillset; but not everyone who is successful is an expert, he makes clear.More importantly, in today’s technology-driven environment, change is the only constant, including the nature of work and the skills required to do it. Over-investing in expertise is often riskier than learning to be adaptive and open to new knowledge, ideas, and skills. Experience can also lead to overconfidence. And yet we continue to deeply value the expertise ideal. In Master of None, Hudson turns expertise on its head and shows that by embracing variety and becoming more versatile, anyone can succeed and become more open to different opportunities in life. To do so, he provides three basic rules that will see any professional through: Don't plan, exploreDon't specialize, generalizeDon't keep your head down, turn it up toward opportunity Groundbreaking and thought provoking, Master of None is a new way forward to help businesses and professionals at all levels thrive.The Queer Advantage: Conversations with LGBTQ+ Leaders on the Power of Identity
Par Andrew Gelwicks. 2020
Meet the LGBTQ+ dealmakers, trailblazers, and glass-ceiling breakers in business, politics, and beyond.The people who are creating national public policy,…
running billion-dollar tech enterprises, and winning Olympic medals. Andrew Gelwicks interviews the leaders who have forged their own paths and changed the world. From Troye Sivan to Margaret Cho, George Takei to Billie Jean King, Shangela to Adam Rippon, each person credits their queer identity with giving them an edge in their paths to success. Their stories brim with the hard-won lessons gained over their careers. With variances in age, background, careers, and races, key themes shine through: Channeling anger in a positive way -- using it as rocket fuel to succeedLeveraging your difference to beget new ideas and strategiesBridging generational gapsAccessing resources to conquer crippling denial, internalized homophobia, and doubtThe power of the Internet as a tool of self-discoveryUsing your sensitivity and attunement to read the room, deciding when to fit in and when to stand outFinding a queer tribe and learning to help and lean on one anotherCollecting incisive, deeply personal conversations with LGBTQ+ trailblazers about how they leveraged the challenges and insights they had as relative outsiders to succeed in the worlds of business, tech, politics, Hollywood, sports and beyond, The Queer Advantage celebrates the unique, supercharged power of queerness.Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
Par Reeves Wiedeman. 2020
&“Vivid, carefully reported drama that readers will gulp down as if it were a fast-paced novel&” (Ken Auletta) ꟷ the…
inside story of WeWork and its CEO, Adam Neumann, which tells the remarkable saga of one of the most audacious, and improbable, rises and falls in American business history In its earliest days, WeWork promised the impossible: to make the American work place cool. Adam Neumann, an immigrant determined to make his fortune in the United States, landed on the idea of repurposing surplus New York office space for the burgeoning freelance class. Over the course of ten years, WeWork attracted billions of dollars from some of the most sought-after investors in the world, while spending it to build a global real estate empire that he insisted was much more than that: an organization that aspired to nothing less than "elevating the world's consciousness." Moving between New York real estate, Silicon Valley venture capital, and the very specific force field of spirituality and ambition erected by Adam Neumann himself, Billion Dollar Loser lays bare the internal drama inside WeWork. Based on more than two hundred interviews, this book chronicles the breakneck speed at which WeWork&’s CEO built and grew his company along with Neumann&’s relationship to a world of investors, including Masayoshi Son of Softbank, who fueled its chaotic expansion into everything from apartment buildings to elementary schools. Culminating in a day-by-day account of the five weeks leading up to WeWork&’s botched IPO and Neumann&’s dramatic ouster, Wiedeman exposes the story of the company&’s desperate attempt to secure the funding it needed in the final moments of a decade defined by excess. Billion Dollar Loser is the first book to indelibly capture the highly leveraged, all-blue-sky world of American business in President Trump&’s first term, and also offers a sober reckoning with its fallout as a new era begins.Undaunted: Overcoming Doubts and Doubters
Par Kara Goldin. 2020
Don&’t let anyone crush your dreams! Whatever you want to achieve, no matter how hard it might seem, you owe…
it to yourself to read this book.Undaunted will inspire you to move past your fears and defy the doubters. It doesn&’t matter whether you feel confident; it matters what you actually do.Author Kara Goldin turned her unsweetened flavored water into one of the most successful beverage businesses of our time and has been named one of InStyle&’s Badass 50, Fast Company&’s Most Creative People in Business, Fortune&’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs and EY Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California.Undaunted is a rare opportunity to gain insights and proven advice unlike anything you&’ll find in the conventional business press. Kara combines real honest stories from her life with observations that might just change how you think about your own.Whether you want to get healthy, start a company, break an addiction, find a new career or just grow in life, Undaunted will inspire you to just go for it and help you find the courage to get there.As she started to achieve her goals, Kara found herself being called &“fearless&”, &“confident&” and even &“unstoppable,&” but nothing could be further from the truth. In Undaunted she shares real stories about her own fears and doubts, the challenges she encountered and what she did to overcome them to eventually build a great business and a life she loves.Her secret? Be Undaunted. Deal with your fears. Move forward despite uncertainty. Turn criticism into motivation. Just go for it!Setbacks will come, but Kara shows you can learn from failures and frustrations and keep advancing toward your true purpose. What if not having &“the right&” credentials or vast industry experience was the secret to making things happen? And what if we didn&’t let our fear of failure stop us?Part autobiography, part business memoir and lots of insights on self-development, Undaunted offers inspiring stories that impart lessons that any reader can apply to their own path. While most motivational business and life books try to offer quick fixes, Undaunted focuses on long-term success, showing you how to take control of breaking down barriers and moving forward. Undaunted won&’t solve your problems and challenges. You will. But it will help you see through other&’s experiences that it&’s possible to do so.Accept your fears, but decide to be Undaunted.Good Company
Par Arthur M Blank. 2020
Featuring an introduction by President Jimmy CarterThe Home Depot cofounder and owner of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons and MLS's Atlanta…
United shares a vision and a roadmap for values-based business. Arthur M. Blank believes that for good companies, purpose and profit can-and should-go hand in hand. And he should know. Together with cofounder Bernie Marcus, Blank built The Home Depot from an idea and a dream to a $50 billion-dollar company, the leading home improvement retailer in the world. And even while opening a new store every 42 hours, they never lost sight of their commitment to care for their people and communities. In fact, in 2001, The Home Depot was voted America's most socially responsible company. Blank left The Home Depot that same year with a burning question: Could the values and culture that made that company great be replicated? Good Company takes readers inside the story of how he did just that-turning around a struggling NFL team, rebooting a near-bankrupt retail chain, building a brand-new stadium, revitalizing a blighted neighborhood, launching a startup soccer club, and more. "When good companies put the wellbeing of their customers, their associates, and their communities first, financial success will follow," Blank writes. "The entrepreneurs and business leaders of today and tomorrow have an extraordinary opportunity: to prove that through upholding values we can create value-for the company, for the customer, and for the community."The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire
Par Stephen Bown. 2009
A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins.The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous…
and complex, is the story of modern Canada's creation. And yet it hasn't been told in a book for over thirty years, and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown's exciting new telling. The Company started out small in 1670, trading practical manufactured goods for furs with the Indigenous inhabitants of inland subarctic Canada. Controlled by a handful of English aristocrats, it expanded into a powerful political force that ruled the lives of many thousands of people--from the lowlands south and west of Hudson Bay, to the tundra, the great plains, the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific northwest. It transformed the culture and economy of many Indigenous groups and ended up as the most important political and economic force in northern and western North America.When the Company was faced with competition from French traders in the 1780s, the result was a bloody corporate battle, the coming of Governor George Simpson--one of the greatest villains in Canadian history--and the Company assuming political control and ruthless dominance. By the time its monopoly was rescinded after two hundred years, the Hudson's Bay Company had reworked the entire northern North American world.Stephen R. Bown has a scholar's profound knowledge and understanding of the Company's history, but wears his learning lightly in a narrative as compelling, and rich in well-drawn characters, as a page-turning novel.Sonhando com a Rua da Esperança.
Par Eder Holguin. 2020
Sonhando com a Rua da Esperança por Eder Holguin De viver nas ruas de Medelim, na Colômbia, para se tornar um empreendedor…
de sucesso em Nova York De viver nas ruas de Medelim, na Colômbia, para se tornar um empreendedor de sucesso em Nova York Hoje, Eder é um empreendedor de sucesso de Nova York na indústria de mídia on-line e CEO de uma empresa de marketing digital. No entanto, quando criança, em meados dos anos 80, ele fugi de uma vida doméstica assustadora e acabou vivendo por anos nas ruas de Medelim, na Colômbia. Era uma existência arriscada, no que foi descrito nessa época como o "lugar mais perigoso da terra". Onde governantes internacionais de drogas como Pablo Escobar governavam, onde você poderia ser baleado por olhar para o cara errado da maneira errada. Sonhando com a Rua da Esperança é a história de como ele passou de morar nas ruas para se tornar um empreendedor de sucesso. O livro está na tradição clássica da maioridade e prova que, embora a vida possa ser feia e brutal, até os mais desfavorecidos podem superar as probabilidades e encontrar a felicidade, a sua própria Rua da Esperança. A narrativa avança e soa com autenticidade; muitas vezes é triste, chocante, mas, no final das contas, edificante e motivacional.The 2008 financial collapse, the expansion of corporate and private wealth, the influence of money in politics—many of Wall Street's…
contemporary trends can be traced back to the work of fourteen critical figures who wrote, and occasionally broke, the rules of American finance. Edward Morris plots in absorbing detail Wall Street's transformation from a clubby enclave of financiers to a symbol of vast economic power. His book begins with J. Pierpont Morgan, who ruled the American banking system at the turn of the twentieth century, and ends with Sandy Weill, whose collapsing Citigroup required the largest taxpayer bailout in history. In between, Wall Streeters relates the triumphs and missteps of twelve other financial visionaries. From Charles Merrill, who founded Merrill Lynch and introduced the small investor to the American stock market; to Michael Milken, the so-called junk bond king; to Jack Bogle, whose index funds redefined the mutual fund business; to Myron Scholes, who laid the groundwork for derivative securities; and to Benjamin Graham, who wrote the book on securities analysis. Anyone interested in the modern institution of American finance will devour this history of some of its most important players.Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last
Par Wright Thompson. 2020
The story of how Julian Van Winkle III, the caretaker of the most coveted cult Kentucky Bourbon whiskey in the…
world, fought to protect his family's heritage and preserve the taste of his forebears, in a world where authenticity, like his product, is in very short supply. As a journalist said of Pappy Van Winkle, "You could call it bourbon, or you could call it a $5,000 bottle of liquified, barrel-aged unobtanium." Julian Van Winkle, the third-generation head of his family's business, is now thought of as something like the Buddha of Bourbon - Booze Yoda, as Wright Thompson calls him. He is swarmed wherever he goes, and people stand in long lines to get him to sign their bottles of Pappy Van Winkle Family Reserve, the whiskey he created to honor his grandfather, the founder of the family concern. A bottle of the 23-year-old Pappy starts at $3000 on the internet. As Julian is the first to say, things have gone completely nuts. Forty years ago, Julian would have laughed in astonishment if you'd told him what lay ahead. He'd just stepped in to try to save the business after his father had died, partly of heartbreak, having been forced to sell the old distillery in a brutal downturn in the market for whiskey. Julian's grandfather had presided over a magical kingdom of craft and connoisseurship, a genteel outfit whose family ethos generated good will throughout Kentucky and far beyond. There's always a certain amount of romance to the marketing of spirits, but Pappy's mission statement captured something real: "We make fine bourbon - at a profit if we can, at a loss if we must, but always fine bourbon." But now the business had hit the wilderness years, and Julian could only hang on for dear life, stubbornly committed to preserving his namesake's legacy or going down with the ship. Then something like a miracle happened: it turned out that hundreds of very special barrels of whiskey from the Van Winkle family distillery had been saved by the multinational conglomerate that bought it. With no idea what they had, they offered to sell it to Julian, who scrambled to beg and borrow the funds. Now he could bottle a whiskey whose taste captured his family's legacy. The result would immediately be hailed as the greatest whiskey in the world - and would soon be the hardest to find. But now, those old barrels were used up, and Julian Van Winkle faced the challenge of his lifetime: how to preserve the taste of Pappy, the taste of his family's heritage, in a new age? The amazing Wright Thompson was invited to be his wingman as he set about to try. The result is an extraordinary testimony to the challenge of living up to your legacy and the rewards that come from knowing and honoring your people and your craft. Wright learned those lessons from Julian as they applied to the honest work of making a great bourbon whiskey in Kentucky, but he couldn't help applying them to his own craft, writing, and his upbringing in Mississippi, as he and his wife contemplated the birth of their first child. May we all be lucky enough to find some of ourselves, as Wright Thompson did, in Julian Van Winkle, and in Pappyland. A New York Times BestsellerAnyone Can Do It: My Story
Par Duncan Bannatyne. 2007
At 30, Duncan Bannatyne had no money and was enjoying life on the beaches of Jersey. He saw a story…
of someone who had made himself a millionaire, and decided to do the same. Five years later he had done it, and now he is worth £168 million. In this remarkable book, Bannatyne relives his colourful path to riches, from ice cream salesman to multi-millionaire, explaining how anyone could take the same route as he did - if they really want to. Hugely articulate, and with numerous fascinating and revealing stories to tell, this is an autobiography and a business book unlike any other - but then Bannatyne isn't like any other businessman, either.The Company I Keep: My Life in Beauty
Par Leonard A. Lauder. 2020
In his much-anticipated memoir, The Company I Keep: My Life in Beauty, Chairman Emeritus and former CEO of The Estée…
Lauder Companies Leonard A. Lauder shares the business and life lessons he learned as well as the adventures he had while helping transform the mom-and-pop business his mother founded in 1946 in the family kitchen into the beloved brand and ultimately into the iconic global prestige beauty company it is today.In its infancy in the 1940s and 50s, the company comprised a handful of products, sold under a single brand in just a few prestigious department stores across the United States. Today, The Estée Lauder Companies constitutes one of the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of prestige skin care, makeup, fragrance and hair care products. It comprises more than 25 brands, whose products are sold in over 150 countries and territories. This growth and success was led by Leonard A. Lauder, Estée Lauder’s oldest son, who envisioned and effected this expansion during a remarkable 60-year tenure, including leading the company as CEO and Chairman.In this captivating personal account complete with great stories as only he can tell them, Mr. Lauder, now known as The Estée Lauder Companies’ “Chief Teaching Officer,” reflects on his childhood, growing up during the Great Depression, the vibrant decades of the post-World War II boom, and his work growing the company into the beauty powerhouse it is today. Mr. Lauder pays loving tribute to his mother Estée Lauder, its eponymous founder, and to the employees of the company, both past and present, while sharing inside stories about the company, including tales of cutthroat rivalry with Charles Revson of Revlon and others. The book offers keen insights on honing ambition, leveraging success, learning from mistakes, and growing an international company in an age of economic turbulence, uncertainty, and fierce competition.Bill Gates y la saga de Microsoft
Par Daniel Ichbiah. 2020
Como primera biografía realizada sobre Bill Gates, este libro fue adaptado y publicado en varios países del mundo: EUA, China,…
Japón, India, Corea del Sur, Israel, Hungría... Por largo tiempo considerado un superdotado, un genio de la tecnología, Bill Gates se volvió el hombre más rico del planeta gracias a sus software. Durante los años 2000, se convirtió en filántropo, persuadido de haber salvado a millones de vidas, especialmente en África. Sin embargo, él es objeto de mil controversias. Este libro, actualizado en 2020, busca hacer su parte de las cosas y dar toda la información para poder comprender lo que anima a esta personalidad fuera de lo común. Este libro cuenta sobre la juventud del superdotado de nombre Bill Gates, quien se vuelve un campeón de la informática en la escuela, la creación del primer BASIC para micro-ordenadores en 1975, luego la ascención de Microsoft, que haría de Bill el hombre más rico del planeta. Seguimos a Gates a través de mil peripecias: - Cómo un joven de 21 años logra persuadir al gigante IBM para sostener negocios con él. - La travesía del desierto de Windows duró 7 años hasta la victoria inesperada. - Cómo Gates tuvo éxito en imponerse sobre la inmensa mayoría del planeta con una mezcla de genio y de maniobras monopolísticas discutibles. - El juicio iniciado por el gobierno americano por abuso de posición dominante... - Cómo Gates finalmente encontró en Google y Apple una competencia que llegarían a igualar y sobrepasar a Microsoft. . Su progresiva conversión a lo humanitario con prioridades que llegaron a sorprender a sus contemporáneos. Este libro fue escrito por Daniel Ichbiah cuando era periodista especializado en las nuevas tecnologías, lo que lo llevo a encontrarse regularmente con Bill Gates. Siendo periodista desde 1986, Ichbiah tuvo la oportunidad de conocer a Gates en una época en la que todLe 4 vite di Steve Jobs
Par Daniel Ichbiah. 2020
Le 4 vite di Steve Jobs Daniel Ichbiah N°1 nelle hit-parade di vendite nell’agosto del 2011. Nuova edizione 2016 aggiornata…
«A trent’anni mi sono ritrovato sul lastrico. Licenziato brutalmente. La mia ragion d’essere non esisteva più. Ero a pezzi. Non me ne resi conto subito, ma la mia partenza forzata da Apple fu salutare…» Questa è la confessione di Steve Jobs fatta questa mattina di giugno del 2005 agli studenti dell’Università di Stanford. Riassumeva la maturazione che è lentamente avvenuta in lui. Cacciato da Apple come un sudicio nel 1985, Jobs ha effettuato un ritorno clamoroso dieci anni dopo producendo opere che hanno marcato la loro epoca come l’iPod, l’iPhone e l’iPad. Il CEO più ammirato del mondo, Steve Jobs ha spesso navigato controcorrente, spinto da una propria visione geniale e da una forza di convinzione fuori dal comune. Eppure, poteva anche sbagliarsi: è stato lui stesso ad aver quasi fatto fallire Apple nel 1984 dopo aver lanciato il Macintosh, imponendo delle scelte tecniche incoerenti! Le 4 vite di Steve Jobs racconta dell’infanzia turbolenta di Jobs, l’ascesa alla gloria dopo la fondazione di Apple, la sua disgrazia e il tentativo vano di vendetta seguito a un ritorno in apoteosi. Rivela anche mille sfaccettature inattese dell’artista fuori dalla norma che dirige Apple. * La sua ricerca di illuminazione in India * Il suo iniziale rifiuto di riconoscere la paternità a sua figlia Lisa * La sua storia con la cantante folk Joan Baez * La ricerca di sua madre che lo abbandonò alla nascita * Il tentativo di curare il suo cancro con una dieta vegetariana… A modo suo, Steve Jobs non ha smesso di voler cambiare il mondo, cambiare la vita… Un libro best-seller Pubblicato da Leduc Editions nell’aprile del 2011, Le 4 vite di Steve Jobs si è classificato n°1 di vendite nell�Never Stop: A Memoir
Par Simba Sana. 2017
A memoir from the cofounder of the nation&’s largest black-owned chain of bookstores. &“A candid testimony of struggle and achievement.&”…
—Kirkus Reviews Never Stop is the wrenching memoir of Simba Sana, the cofounder and former leader of Karibu Books, a major indie-bookselling phenomenon and perhaps the most successful black-owned company in the history of the book industry. In this memoir, Sana reveals how his experience with Karibu jumpstarted his lifelong journey to better understanding himself, human nature, faith, and American culture—which ultimately helped him develop the powerful personal philosophy that drives his life today. Born Bernard Sutton in Washington, DC, Sana grew up in the cycle of poverty and violence that dominated inner-city life in the seventies and eighties. Sana&’s academic success got him into college, where his life increasingly embodied the contradictions that plagued his youth. Committed to self-improvement and self-discipline, he grew into a successful businessman while becoming an impassioned Black Nationalist and Pan-Africanist. He lived the corporate life at Ernst & Young by day while leading radical consciousness-raising groups by night. Building Karibu became Sana&’s opportunity to bind the disparate elements of his life together. Ultimately, though, the paradoxes in his identity and his accumulated emotional wounds confounded his effort to overcome his business reversals, and everything Sana built—his marriage, family, and business—was lost in an incredibly brief period of time. Sana had to rebuild his life—and his identity—and set out to do so in a way that focused principally on the meaning and importance of love. &“Hands down one of the best explorations into the Black male psyche I&’ve ever read.&” —EssenceAlessandro Torlonia: The Pope’s Banker (Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance)
Par Daniela Felisini. 2017
This book provides a vivid biography of a towering Italian banker pioneer and entrepreneur It weaves the…
entrepreneurial ventures of Alessandro Torlonia 1800-1886 through the narratives of business and politics in the Nineteenth century the growth of European financial markets and the decline of Papal power during the Italian Risorgimento The discussion is founded in rigorous historical research using original sources such as the Archivum Secretum Vaticanum papers and other official documents the archives of the Torlonia family and of the Rothschild bank in Paris memoirs correspondences and newspapers Through this book readers learn that Alessandro Torlonia was a man of many faces who was one of the most complex and influential characters of Italian economic life in the nineteenth century Felisini also provides an expert critique of the financial history of the papacy an area of heightened interest given the notoriety of relations between the Holy See and its bankers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Focal topics such as the history of European elites and the history of European financial markets will have an interdisciplinary appeal for scholars and researchersA History of Burley Tobacco in East Tennessee & Western North Carolina
Par Billy Yeargin, Christopher Bickers. 2015
Burley tobacco revolutionized the industry in east Tennessee and western North Carolina. What started from two farmers planting white burley…
in Greeneville ignited an agricultural revolution and significantly changed crops, production and quality. Burley transformed the tobacco industry with new cultivation techniques and a shift from dark and flue-cured tobacco. By the 1990s, burley tobacco production in the region had drastically declined, and it is a tradition that few local farmers still practice. Agricultural experts Billy Yeargin and Christopher Bickers take a nostalgic look at the historic rise of burley tobacco and its gradual decline.Le retour à la bière...et au hockey: L'histoire d'Eric Molson
Par Helen Antoniou. 2018
Pour la majorité des Canadiens, le nom de la famille Molson fait partie de l'essence même du Canada. Depuis 1786,…
année où John Molson fonda sa première brasserie à Montréal, il rime avec bière, hockey et philanthropie. Rares sont cependant ceux qui savent à quel point la famille est passée proche, ces dernières années, de perdre le contrôle de cette entreprise. Le retour à la bière...et au hockey dévoile des détails personnels de la vie et de l'œuvre d'Eric Molson, qui, non seulement, a sauvé l'entreprise familiale, mais lui a permis de connaître la prospérité comme brasserie de classe mondiale au vingt et unième siècle. Bénéficiant d'un accès sans précédent à la famille Molson, Helen Antoniou retrace l'évolution d’Eric Molson depuis sa position de jeune maître brasseur passionné par les aspects chimiques de l'industrie brassicole jusqu'au poste de président du conseil d'administration de Molson. De nature pacifique, il a été aux prises avec de gros ego, a dû composer avec des situations de salles de conseil complexes et a même dû affronter un cousin déstabilisant qui s'efforçait de le tasser sur le côté. Se fondant sur une recherche poussée, Helen Antoniou relate dans le détail comment Eric, un homme introverti, a vaincu son aversion pour les conflits et a transformé un conglomérat en déroute pour le ramener à son activité principale, soit la fabrication de la bière, et finir par en faire un des plus grands brasseurs au monde. S'il a aujourd'hui passé le flambeau à ses fils, membres de la septième génération, sa vision résolue prévaut encore. Récit passionnant du combat d'un homme à la barre d'un géant de l'univers brassicole, Le retour à la bière...et au hockey explique en quoi les principes directeurs d'Eric Molson ont influencé l'avenir de Molson, aussi bien l'entreprise que la famille.