The change maker
Subtitle: preserving the promise of America
By: Al Checchi
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781453221013; 9781453222072
Subjects: Leadership; Executive ability; Success in business; Executives; Biography; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Personal Memoirs; General; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Industrial Management; Management; Management Science; Organizational Behavior
Other titles: Changemaker
Description: This memoir of an unconventional agent of change provides a lesson in the values of strategic thinking and responsible leadership. Checchi chronicles how creativity, strategic thinking, and negotiating skills helped transform three American institutions: Marriott, Walt Disney, and Northwest Airlines; and led him to challenge the California political establishment as a candidate for governor.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Salinas 1998; title: Beginnings; title: Washington DC 1960s; title: The Rhodes Scholar; title: Selective Service; title: The nephew; title: Harvard Business School; title: Marriott Corporation; title: Texas two-step; title: The wild blue yonder; title: End of the beginning; title: - The unfriendly skies; title: Twice blessed; title: The long march; title: Requiem for a campaign; title: Lost; title: New beginnings; title: Let's roll; title: Hope and change; title: Common sense.