Pull: Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin (Harvard Studies in Business History)
Laird offers an illuminating analysis of how exceptional achievers have combined individual talent with social assets... to rise in society. (Hardy GreenBusiness Week2006-03-13)Laird provides a comprehensive perspective and rich historical insight into the importance of social dynamics in achieving career success. She retells the success stories of famous Americans ranging from Horatio Alger, Benjamin Franklin, and Andrew Carnegie to Bill Gates and beyond to make the point that none were simply "self-made men." (T. GutteridgeChoice2006-06-01)[A] highly readable appraisal of the social dynamics that navigate some Americans towards opportunity while steering others away...Pamela Laird has written an important book about the social forces that have blocked individual endeavour. (Margaret WalshBusiness History2007-03-01)Laird's historical perspective yields fresh insights into the history of American business practices and offers an original perspective on the challenges made by feminism and civil rights in the last decades of the twentieth century. (Kathy PeissBusiness History Review2007-04-01)