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The Financial Times and McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize (or simply the Bracken Bower Prize) is an annual award given to the best business book proposal of the year by a young writer, as determined by the Financial Times and McKinsey & Company. It aims to find the "best proposal for a book about the challenges and opportunities of growth by an ...
The expectations for Broken Dreams were high, and according to The Times it was felt that Bower's revelations might lead to resignations, dismissals and possibly arrests. . Though the book reportedly left people in football 'underwhelmed', the book was regarded by The Times as having 'laid bare to an unsuspecting public the scale of the venality and profligacy of some managers, the ...
Conundrum Press is a book publishing company founded in 1998 in Crested Butte, Colorado by David J. Rothman. [1] It focuses on poetry of the American West, especially Colorado. Although its platform is regional, it has attracted a number of nationally and internationally known writers and its books have won several awards.
Why I liked it: “James” won the National Book Award for fiction this year, and for good reason. Everett gives intelligence, humor and heart to a character readers thought they knew.
Midwest Book Review was established in 1976. [1] The editor-in-chief of the organization is James A. Cox. [2] [3] The review puts out nine publications on a monthly basis, with a focus on community and academic library organizations, booksellers, and the general reading public. [4]
Marvin Bower (August 1, 1903 – January 22, 2003) was an American business theorist and management consultant associated with McKinsey & Company. Under Bower's leadership, McKinsey grew from a small engineering and accounting firm to a leader in the consulting industry.
According to Bowers, when she refused, a staff member tried to pull her out of her bed. She resisted, she said, prompting the staffer to choke her. “I was trying to tell her, ‘I can’t resist, you’ve got my arms, you’ve got my throat,’” Bowers recalled. She said once the staff member released her, she started throwing up.
The book is about Marvin Bower, McKinsey visionary leader who transformed the company from an accounting and engineering practice into one of the world's premier management consulting firms and who is considered to be the founder of management consulting. The book has a very positive feedback from the consultant community.