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Iacocca: An Autobiography [16] Iacocca, Lee: 1984 Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's: Kroc, Ray: McDonald's: 1976 (reprint 1990) J.R.D Tata: Beyond the Last Blue Mountain: R. M. Lala: Tata Group: The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company [17] [18] Charles Koch: Koch Industries: 2007 ...
Losing My Virginity [1] is the autobiography of the British businessman Richard Branson.Published in 1998, it was later followed by other biographical books by Branson, including Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur (2008) and The Virgin Way: How to Listen, Learn, Laugh and Lead (2014).
An Autobiography: 1883 Walt Whitman: Specimen Days: 1883 Leo Tolstoy: A Confession: 1884 John Ruskin: Praeterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life: 1885 Oscar Wilde: De Profundis: 1897 Margaret Oliphant: The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant: 1899 George Bernard Shaw: Shaw: an Autobiography, 1898–1950 ...
The best reads of the year include ‘Munichs’ by David Peace and Andrew O’Hagan’s ‘Caledonian Road’ (Supplied) It was a year of trailblazing memoirs, groundbreaking history books, and ...
In 2011, Blair released an autobiography, Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: How I Went from Gang Member to Multimillionaire Entrepreneur. The book was ranked 3rd in The New York Times Best Seller list for August 2011 and was a number one New York Times Hardcover Business Book bestseller in September of that year. [4]
He also veers away from his subject just often enough, offering profiles of the frequently brilliant people who work alongside Mr. Musk. The best thing Mr. Vance does in this book, though, is tell Mr. Musk's story simply and well." [3] It was declared one of the best books of 2015 by The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Amazon.com, Fast Company and ...
Richard Charles Nicholas Branson was born on 18 July 1950 [9] [10] in Blackheath, Royal Borough of Greenwich, London, the son of Edward James Branson (1918–2011), a barrister, and his wife Evette Huntley Branson (née Flindt; 1924–2021), a former ballet dancer and air hostess.
Steve Jobs was an American pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s who, along with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, founded Apple Computer.Before and after his death in 2011, Jobs was known as a counter-culture figure within the computer industry, and as a perfectionist who could be demanding of his colleagues and employees—sometimes to the point of cruelty.