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Byrne, John A. Chainsaw: The Notorious Career of Al Dunlap in the Era of Profit-At-Any-Price
New York, New York, U.S.A. HarperBusiness 1999 0066619807 / 9780066619804 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new Condition - Stated First Edition - Price inside dustcover: $26.00 - NO price clippings - Remainder mark on bottom - NO price clippings - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Tight spine - Bright pages - 400 pages - "If he were on fire, I wouldn’t piss on him." Albert Dunlap on the author If you think corporate greed went out with the ‘80s, think again. The story of Chainsaw Al Dunlap, the CEO who tore apart Sunbeam, is a saga of duplicity and ego that rivals Barbarians at the Gate. Written by John A. Byrne, a distinguished senior writer at Business Week, this story of one street-fighter’s rise to the corporate penthouse-and the shattering fall caused by his own avarice-comes straight from today’s headlines. Byrne weaves together a network of extensive reporting to present a strong, filmic narrative of an out-of-control company and corporate excess in the go-go ‘90s. Al Dunlap, the focus of Chainsaw: The Notorious Career of Al Dunlap in the Era of Profit-at-Any-Price (HarperBusiness; October 28, 1999; $26.00), was a business celebrity whose stomach for firing thousands earned him the nickname of "the Patton of the business world." At small appliance maker Sunbeam, however, he became ensnared in his own greed, with disastrous consequences. Dunlap-a man who designed an office suite with one room for his dogs and another for his bodyguard-stopped at nothing to realize his vision for Sunbeam, even as he was challenged by Wall Street analysts and his own top lieutenants. Chainsaw opens with a dramatic boardroom scene, as the newly-hired Dunlap makes the senior officers of Sunbeam plead for their jobs. The layoffs begin on his second day, and for two years, Dunlap’s management style, which Byrne calls "brutal pressure on honest people," would terrorize the company. "He sucked the very life and soul out of companies and people," Byrne writes. In the end Dunlap had announced the layoffs off 11,100 Sunbeam employees, firing only one of them in person. Many of the book’s main players are business stars themselves. Two of Sunbeam’s main investors are Wall Street titans, billionaire financier Ron Perelman and fund manager Michael Price (known as "the scariest S.O.B. on Wall Street"). Hedge-fund wheeler-dealer Michael Steinhardt-who Time magazine named one of the 25 most influential Americans of 1998-is also included. In addition, George Soros and Kerry Packer are supporting players in this drama, which draws its assorted characters from business powerhouses such as Morgan Stanley, Skadden Arps, Coopers & Lybrand (now Pricewaterhouse Coopers), and Arthur Andersen. Byrne delivers the inside corporate plotting, giving events a Grisham-esque sense of drama, but he is also careful to put Dunlap’s reign at Sunbeam in a broader context. "Chainsaw Al was a creation of the Street and its ceaseless lust for profit at any cost," says Byrne. For Dunlap to prosper, he required a fast-and-loose environment, where the illusion of a company’s speedy turnaround was enough to send its stock soaring. Byrne’s strong knowledge of Wall Street gives edge to this portion of the story; it’s thrilling to follow Sunbeam’s ups-and-downs through the eyes of many of the analysts watching the company. Given special attention is PaineWebber’s Andrew Shore, a young hotshot whose calls on Sunbeam were some of the riskiest of his career. Dunlap succeeded partly because of his media savvy. "He was good copy and great TV," Byrne notes. Dunlap even wrote a successful business book, Mean Business: How I Save Bad Companies and Make Good Companies Great. While he urged the executives at his companies to buy the book, however, Dunlap didn’t follow its tenets. At Sunbeam, he was not a reorganizer, not a builder, but an "impostor," Byrne says. Chainsaw is rich in telling character details (such as the story that Dunlap hoped to marry his second wife before the end of a calendar year for tax purposes) but it also has a moral center. The mad pursuit of wealth it portrays takes place at the expense of customers and employees. "During the greatest bull market in the history of the Stock Exchange," notes Byrne, "the self-proclaimed friend of shareholders had lost hundreds of millions of dollars at a consumer products company when consumer spending reached record highs." About the Author: John A. Byrne is a distinguished senior writer for Business Week, the author of Informed Consent and The Whiz Kids, and the co-author (with John Sculley) of Odyssey. Byrne has followed Al Dunlap’s career for many years and developed an extensive network of sources. For this book, he interviewed Sunbeam directors and executives, investment bankers, analysts, and even Dunlap’s estranged family. Byrne lives in the New York metropolitan area.
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Byrne, John A. Chainsaw: The Notorious Career of Al Dunlap in the Era of Profit-At-Any-Price
New York, New York, U.S.A. HarperBusiness 1999 0066619807 / 9780066619804 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new Condition - Stated First Edition - Price inside dustcover: $26.00 - NO price clippings - Remainder mark on top. NO price clippings - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Tight spine - Bright pages - 400 pages - "If he were on fire, I wouldn’t piss on him." Albert Dunlap on the author If you think corporate greed went out with the ‘80s, think again. The story of Chainsaw Al Dunlap, the CEO who tore apart Sunbeam, is a saga of duplicity and ego that rivals Barbarians at the Gate. Written by John A. Byrne, a distinguished senior writer at Business Week, this story of one street-fighter’s rise to the corporate penthouse-and the shattering fall caused by his own avarice-comes straight from today’s headlines. Byrne weaves together a network of extensive reporting to present a strong, filmic narrative of an out-of-control company and corporate excess in the go-go ‘90s. Al Dunlap, the focus of Chainsaw: The Notorious Career of Al Dunlap in the Era of Profit-at-Any-Price (HarperBusiness; October 28, 1999; $26.00), was a business celebrity whose stomach for firing thousands earned him the nickname of "the Patton of the business world." At small appliance maker Sunbeam, however, he became ensnared in his own greed, with disastrous consequences. Dunlap-a man who designed an office suite with one room for his dogs and another for his bodyguard-stopped at nothing to realize his vision for Sunbeam, even as he was challenged by Wall Street analysts and his own top lieutenants. Chainsaw opens with a dramatic boardroom scene, as the newly-hired Dunlap makes the senior officers of Sunbeam plead for their jobs. The layoffs begin on his second day, and for two years, Dunlap’s management style, which Byrne calls "brutal pressure on honest people," would terrorize the company. "He sucked the very life and soul out of companies and people," Byrne writes. In the end Dunlap had announced the layoffs off 11,100 Sunbeam employees, firing only one of them in person. Many of the book’s main players are business stars themselves. Two of Sunbeam’s main investors are Wall Street titans, billionaire financier Ron Perelman and fund manager Michael Price (known as "the scariest S.O.B. on Wall Street"). Hedge-fund wheeler-dealer Michael Steinhardt-who Time magazine named one of the 25 most influential Americans of 1998-is also included. In addition, George Soros and Kerry Packer are supporting players in this drama, which draws its assorted characters from business powerhouses such as Morgan Stanley, Skadden Arps, Coopers & Lybrand (now Pricewaterhouse Coopers), and Arthur Andersen. Byrne delivers the inside corporate plotting, giving events a Grisham-esque sense of drama, but he is also careful to put Dunlap’s reign at Sunbeam in a broader context. "Chainsaw Al was a creation of the Street and its ceaseless lust for profit at any cost," says Byrne. For Dunlap to prosper, he required a fast-and-loose environment, where the illusion of a company’s speedy turnaround was enough to send its stock soaring. Byrne’s strong knowledge of Wall Street gives edge to this portion of the story; it’s thrilling to follow Sunbeam’s ups-and-downs through the eyes of many of the analysts watching the company. Given special attention is PaineWebber’s Andrew Shore, a young hotshot whose calls on Sunbeam were some of the riskiest of his career. Dunlap succeeded partly because of his media savvy. "He was good copy and great TV," Byrne notes. Dunlap even wrote a successful business book, Mean Business: How I Save Bad Companies and Make Good Companies Great. While he urged the executives at his companies to buy the book, however, Dunlap didn’t follow its tenets. At Sunbeam, he was not a reorganizer, not a builder, but an "impostor," Byrne says. Chainsaw is rich in telling character details (such as the story that Dunlap hoped to marry his second wife before the end of a calendar year for tax purposes) but it also has a moral center. The mad pursuit of wealth it portrays takes place at the expense of customers and employees. "During the greatest bull market in the history of the Stock Exchange," notes Byrne, "the self-proclaimed friend of shareholders had lost hundreds of millions of dollars at a consumer products company when consumer spending reached record highs." About the Author: John A. Byrne is a distinguished senior writer for Business Week, the author of Informed Consent and The Whiz Kids, and the co-author (with John Sculley) of Odyssey. Byrne has followed Al Dunlap’s career for many years and developed an extensive network of sources. For this book, he interviewed Sunbeam directors and executives, investment bankers, analysts, and even Dunlap’s estranged family. Byrne lives in the New York metropolitan area.
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Byrne, John A. Informed Consent: a Story of Personal Tragedy and Corporate Betrayal - Inside the Silicone Breast Implant Crisis
McGraw-Hill 1996 0070096252 / 9780070096257 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Ex-Library
Good copy of this 1996 ex-libris book - Uusual library markings - Inner pages are free from writing and tears - Tight spine - 275 pages - This wrenching, compelling personal story raises vital questions for corporate ethics programs. Michigan executive John Swanson, creator and overseer of Dow Corning's ethics program, faced a moral crisis when his wife, Colleen, began experiencing problems that she attributed to her Dow-manufactured silicone breast implants: severe migraines, debilitating joint and back pain, numbness in her arms and hands and extreme fatigue. In 1991, she underwent removal of the leaking implants, which had been in her chest for 17 years. Her husband then recused himself from Dow's silicone breast implant business, telling his employers that he would no longer help the company defend itself against the growing onslaught of criticism and lawsuits. He had gradually come to believe that Dow had failed to fully inform women of the known risks and had ignored numerous opportunities to get out of the implant business gracefully. Colleen Swanson settled a lawsuit against Dow Corning out of court in 1993, and her husband, stigmatized at work, retired that same year.
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Welch, Jack; Byrne, John A. Jack: Straight from the Gut
Warner Books Inc 2001 0446528382 / 9780446528382 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
Price inside dustcover: $29.95 - As CEO of General Electric for the past twenty years, he has built its market cap by more than $450 billion and established himself as the most admired business leader in the world. His championing of initiatives like Six Sigma quality, globalization, and e-business have helped define the modern corporation. At the same time, he's a gutsy boss who has forged a unique philosophy and an operating system that relies on a "boundaryless" sharing of ideas, an intense focus on people, and an informal, give-and-take style that makes bureaucracy the enemy. In anecdotal detail and with self-effacing humor, Jack Welch gives us the people (most notably his Irish mother) who shaped his life and the big hits and the big misses that characterized his career. Starting at GE in 1960 as an engineer earning $10,500, Jack learned the need for "getting out of the pile" when his first raise was the same as everyone else's. He stayed out of the corporate bureaucracy while running a $2 billion collection of GE businesses-in a sweater and blue jeans-out of a Hilton in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. After avoiding GE's Fairfield, Connecticut, headquarters for years, Jack was eventually summoned by then Chairman Reg Jones, who was planning his succession. There ensued one of the most painful parts of his career-Jack's dark-horse struggle, filled with political tension, to make it to the CEO's chair. A hug from Reg confirmed Jack was the new boss-and started the GE transformation. Welch walks us through the "Neutron Jack" years, when GE's employment rolls fell by more than 100,000 as part of a strategy to "fix, sell, or close" each business...and how he used the purchase of RCA to provide a foundation for the company's future earnings. There were mistakes, too-and Jack confronts them openly. In "Too Full of Myself," he describes one of the biggest blunders: the purchase of Kidder Peabody, which ran counter to GE's culture. The riveting story of his last year-the elaborate process of selecting a successor and the attempt to buy Honeywell-is also told in compelling detail. This book is laced with refreshing interludes, such as "A Short Reflection on Golf," that capture Jack's competitiveness and the importance of friendship in his life. Destined to become a business classic, Jack: Straight from the Gut is a deeply personal journey filled with passion and a sheer lust for life.
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Sculley, John; Byrne, John A. Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple: A Journey of Adventure, Ideas and the Future
Harper & Row 1987 0060157801 / 9780060157807 Hard Cover Near-Fine Very Good +
Very-nice, clean copy of this 1987 hardback. NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages - Illustrated with photos - 450 pages - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world? When Steve Jobs, the maverick computer genius & head of Apple Computers, issued that challenge, Sculley turned his back on everything he had struggled to achieve at Pepsi. The two of them spent some heady months in the effort, like two Davids taking on Goliath — IBM. But there were painful months, too, during the worst of Apples troubles, when their close friendship turned destructive. Recreates their painful boardroom showdown over the direction of Apple. Reveals how he & a group of tough, irreverent managers rebuilt Apple. Photos. From The Critics Library Journal The chairman and CEO of Apple Computer, with the aid of a Business Week editor, vividly describes how, after working as an executive for Pepsi-Cola, developing winning strategies in the Cola Wars, and being promoted to president at age 38, he abandoned a ``second-wave'' company to join Apple, a ``third-wave'' firm epitomizing flexibility, creativity, and innovation. Sculley tells of his mistakes, failings, and successes and ends chapters with lessons in management or marketing. Highly recommended for business students and anyone curious about a CEO's life.Leonard Grundt, Nassau Community Coll. Lib., Garden City, N.Y.
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