Steve Miller (9)
Auteur de The Turnaround Kid: What I Learned Rescuing America's Most Troubled Companies
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A propos de l'auteur
Steve Miller was born July 31, 1950 in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the grandson of poet and radio personality Dorothea Neale. Miller graduated from Reisterstown, Maryland's Franklin Senior High School in 1968 where he learned how to make chapbooks as editor of the school's literary magazine. He afficher plus later attended University of Maryland, Baltimore County sporadically through the late 60s and 70s where he was news editor and managing editor of the campus newspaper. He is Founding Curator of the Albin O. Kuhn Library's science fiction research collection. Steve is an independent publisher with an extensive background in SF fandom. Since his first publication in 1968, Steve has accumulated credits in well over 100 newspapers, magazines, journals and short stories including his work in the Liaden universe. Steve is married and lives with his wife, Sharon Lee, in Maine. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Steve Miller
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- Nom légal
- Miller, Robert Stevens
- Sexe
- male
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 35
- Popularité
- #405,584
- Évaluation
- 3.4
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 392
- Langues
- 9
Overall, the book occasionally bogged down into too much description of the names and personalities of the individuals with whom Miller worked, but was mostly highly readable and worthwhile. Miller gives a clear picture of the job of a top consultant faced with companies in crisis and was willing to give a more clear and honest account of the problems and difficult compromises he was forced to make to try to bring these companies back from the brink of failure. The book is a valuable addition to the universe both of business books and memoirs.
In the final chapter Miller gives his perspective on the grand problems of pension plan liabilities and health care costs. His suggestions are sweeping and do not actually provide action plans so much as identify known problems. Nonetheless, because the book was so well-written and thoughtful, Miller seemed to earn the right to comment on these larger problems facing companies.… (plus d'informations)