Applied Wisdom
Subtitle: Bad News Is Good News and Other Insights That Can Help Anyone Be a Better Manager
Publisher: Chandler Jordan Publishing
Published: 2016
Place of publication: United States
Format: Ebook
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780998329215
Copyright date: 2016
Table of contents: title: 1
label: Dedication; title: 3
label: A note to my readers; title: 5
label: Section I: Introduction; title: 11
label: Chapter 1: Early years; title: 17
label: Chapter 2: Morgan & Sons Canning; title: 24
label: Chapter 3: Heading east; title: 34
label: Chapter 4: Rebooting the plan; title: 42
label: Chapter 5: General leadership; title: 47
label: Chapter 6: Work for the best managers you can; label: Sidebar: Great moments in technology —; title: 51
label: and with Mr. Lincoln; title: 55
label: Chapter 7: North to Silicon Valley; title: 61
label: Chapter 8: New ventures; title: 75
label: Section II: Applied Materials; title: 79
label: Chapter 9: Luck is when preparation meets opportunity; title: 89
label: Chapter 10: The power of deciding, the challenge of change; title: 98
label: Chapter 11: Products and the ‘Flying Wedge’; title: 104
label: Chapter 12: Going global; title: 117
label: Chapter 13: Culture, showerheads and the P5000; label: Chapter 14: Work hard, stay alert to new ideas, achieve; title: 124
label: goals, repeat; title: 142
label: Chapter 15: The larger context; title: 156
label: Chapter 16: Business and government; title: 168
label: Chapter 17: The Founders’ Legacy and The Tech Awards; title: 181
label: Section III: Philanthropy (And why good management always matters, even beyond business); title: 183
label: Chapter 18: 10 key Morganisms that work for any organization; title: 196
label: Chapter 19: New horizons; title: 205
label: Chapter 20: Nature for people; title: 216
label: Chapter 21: Not just reports, progress; title: 221
label: Chapter 22: Non-profits face similar issues as start-ups; title: 226
label: Chapter 23: Collaboration in the northern Sierra; title: 249
label: Chapter 24: Final thoughts; title: 257
label: Acknowledgments; title: 259
label: Appendixes; title: 272
label: Index; title: 296
label: Bibliography; title: 299
label: About the authors