The Go-Getter: A Story That Tells You How to Be One - Hardcover

Kyne, Peter B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805065628 ISBN 13: 9780805065626

Verlag: HENRY HOLT, 2003

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<p><b>The classic motivational parable (over 500,000 copies sold worldwide) that shows you how to make your own opportunities in life, updated for the modern reader by bestselling business author Alan Axelrod </b><br><br>Ever since its first printing by William Randolph Hearst in 1921, <i>The Go-Getter</i> has inspired employees and entrepreneurs to take initiative, increase their productivity, and excel against the odds. Now, more than half a million copies later, Alan Axelrod, bestselling author of<i> Patton on Leadership</i> and <i>Elizabeth I,</i> CEO, updates the tale to address today's most pressing work issues.<br><br>In<i> The Go-Getter</i>, Bill Peck, a war veteran, persuades Cappy Ricks, the influential founder of the Rick's Logging & Lumbering Company, to let him prove himself by selling skunk wood in odd lengths-a job that everyone knows can only lead to failure. When Peck goes on to beat his quota, Rick hands Peck the ultimate opportunity and the ultimate test: the quest for an elusive blue vase. Drawing on such classic values as honesty, determination, passion, and responsibility, Peck overcomes nearly insurmountable obstacles to find the vase and launch hia career as a successful manager.<br><br>In a time when jobs are tight and managers are too busy for mentoring, how can you maintain positive energy, take control of your career, and prepare yourself to ace the tests that come your way? By applying the timeless lessons in this compulsively readable parable, employees at all levels can learn to rekindle the go-getter in themselves.</p>

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<p>A native of San Francisco, <b>Peter B. Kyne</b> was a prolific screenwriter and the author of the 1920 bestseller <i>Kindred of the Dust</i>. His stories of Cappy Ricks and the Rick's Logging & Lumbering Company were serialized in <i>The Saturday Evening </i><br><i>Post</i> and William Randolph Hearst's <i>Cosmopolitan</i> magazine. He died in 1957. Historian <b>Alan Axelrod</b> is the author of the business bestsellers <i>Patton on Leadership</i> and <i>Elizabeth I, CEO</i>. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.</p>

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The Go-Getter

A Story That Tells You How To Be OneBy Kyne, Peter B.

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From The Go-Getter:
"Well," Cappy said, "I suppose I'll have to cast about for his successor. I think Bill Peck has some of the earmarks of a good manager for our Shanghai office, but I'll have to test him a little further." He looked up humorously at Mr. Skinner. "Skinner, my dear boy," he continued, "I'm going to have him deliver a blue vase."
Mr. Skinner's cold features actually glowed. "Well, tip the chief of police and the proprietor of the store off this time and save yourself some money," he warned Cappy. "I don't envy Mr. Peck, and I have every hope that he'll give you less of a tangle than Matt Peasley and I did." He walked to the window and looked down into California Street. He continued to smile.
"Yes," Cappy continued dreamily, "You'll agree with me, Skinner, that if he delivers the blue vase he'll have proven himself ready to take over all our business in Asia?"
"I'll say he will."
Promptly at one'clock the following day, Bill Peck reported at the general manager's house.


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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: HENRY HOLT
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0805065628
• ISBN 13: 9780805065626
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96
• Herausgeber: Axelrod Alan
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