17 Results for : stodgy
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Who Says Elephants Can't Dance: How I Turned Around IBM , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 385min
CEO Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.'s memoir about the extraordinary turnaround of IBM and his transformation of the company into the industry leader of the computer age - the great American business story of our time. When Louis V. Gerstner became CEO of IBM in 1993, shares had slumped and the company was on the verge of collapse. Hired for his successful management of RJR Nabisco and American Express, Gerstner had no background in technology, but during his seven-year chairmanship, he transformed the company into the leading force of the computer age. In his frank, direct voice, Gerstner recalls the obstacles he faced: the plans to fragment the company, the inconsistent global policies, the stodgy white-shirt hierarchy and inter-departmental competitiveness, and the rapidly declining sales. Within months of joining IBM, Gerstner presented his bold and controversial business strategy. Punitive towards office politics, he revolutionised the company from within, altering an entire corporate culture, divesting billions of dollars in unneeded assets and transforming IBM from a fractured, process-driven business into a nimble, customer-driven enterprise able to respond quickly to the volatile technology market and face down Microsoft and Intel in the Internet era. Revealing his tactics step by step, Gerstner spins an engaging narrative that takes the listener behind the curtain into the unbelievable mess he inherited and into the office and mind of a CEO facing the challenge of a lifetime. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Edward Herrmann. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/001494/bk_hcuk_001494_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Reputation
Bridgerton meets Gossip Girl with a dash of Jane Austen, in Reputation, a Regency-era historical romantic comedy with a deliciously feminist twist, from a hilarious new British voice, Lex Croucher. Abandoned by her parents, bookish and sheltered Georgiana Ellers is spending the summer with her stodgy aunt and uncle at their home in the English countryside. At a particularly dull party, she meets the enigmatic Frances Campbell, a wealthy member of the in-crowd who delights Georgiana with her disregard for so-called "polite society." Lonely and vulnerable, Georgiana quickly falls in with Frances and her wealthy, wild, and deeply improper friends, who introduce her to the upper echelons of Regency aristocracy, and a world of drunken debauchery, frivolous spending, and mysterious young men. One, in particular, stands out from the rest: Thomas Hawksley, who has a tendency to cross paths with Georgiana in her most embarrassing moments. Sparks fly, but Thomas seems unimpressed with the company she is keeping. And soon, Georgiana begins to wonder whether she'll ever feel like she fits in--or if the price of entry into Frances's gilded world will ultimately be higher than she is willing to pay. Set against a backdrop of lavish parties, handsome men on horseback--and in a time when one's reputation was everything--this edgy, hilarious romantic comedy explores sex, consent, belonging, and status through the eyes of an unforgettable heroine that Austen herself would have cheered for.- Shop: buecher
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Midnight at the Oasis , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 326min, (USK 18)
Love affairs from long ago are often quickly forgotten, dead, and buried. We all move on with our lives, after all. But one day a shocking bit of news brought memories of one long-forgotten affair flooding to the surface, and those memories were as fresh and alive as though they happened yesterday. But they didn't. They happened more than 40 years ago. It was 1974. A president faced impeachment, gas had surged to 60 cents a gallon, and women were burning their bras. Chris Pugley and Travis Buckner were young disk jockeys who moved from small market to small market in the first two years of their careers, then suddenly had a chance to go to New Orleans to help KSLM, a stodgy old radio station, launch a rock music format. That's when their lives changed in a whirlwind. Sandi Kelso was a sexy and streetwise twenty-four-year-old New Yorker who moved to New Orleans on a whim and wound up at KSLM, doing mind-numbing office work. But events presented her with new opportunities to advance both her career and her love life. Maria Muldaur's sexy hit song that dominated the charts in 1974 provides part of the musical soundtrack to this Baby Boomer "coming of age" tale, as Chris, Travis, and Sandi find excitement, romance, and themselves in New Orleans. Their year in the Crescent City brought them closer together and changed the course of their lives in the process. If you're a Baby Boomer and can still remember being young, this book may make you smile. If you're Gen X or a Millennial, you might be shocked to learn what your parents were up to when they were your age. Midnight at the Oasis perfectly captures New Orleans in the polyester era, much the way Mad Men nailed the '60s. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Huffman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/085915/bk_acx0_085915_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Family Fortunes: How to Build Family Wealth and Hold on to It for 100 Years , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 696min
Advice on managing your wealth from best-selling author Bill Bonner. From trusted New York Times best-selling author Bill Bonner comes a radical new way to look at family money and a practical, actionable guide to getting and maintaining multigenerational wealth. Family Fortunes: How to Build Family Wealth and Hold on to It for 100 Years is packed with useful information, interwoven with Bonner's stories about his own family's wealth philosophy and practices. A comprehensive guide that shows how families can successfully preserve their estates by ignoring most of what people think they know about "the rich" and, instead, training and motivating all family members to work together toward a very uncommon goal. This book is a must-read for all individual investors—even those who do not plan to leave money to their children—because it challenges many of the most ubiquitous principles and rules of investing. You might expect a book on family wealth to be extremely conservative in its outlook. Instead, the Bonners announce what is practically a revolutionary manifesto. They explain: Why family money should NOT be invested in "safe, conservative" investments Why charitable giving is usually a waste of money, or worse Why it is NOT a good idea to let children go their own way Why you can't trust wealth "professionals" and why you should never entrust your money to money managers Why giving your children as much education as possible is NOT a good idea Why Warren Buffett and the rest of the rich people asking for higher tax rates are wrong to take "the pledge" Why Wall Street is a graveyard for capital, why most celebrity CEOs are a threat to the businesses they run, why modern capitalism is a failure, and more You will come away with a very different idea as to what family wealth is all about. It is not stodgy. Not boring. Not moss-backed and react ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brett Barry. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005804/bk_adbl_005804_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 948min
Hillary Clinton’s surprising defeat in the 2008 Democratic primary brought her to the nadir of her political career, vanquished by a much younger opponent whose message of change and cutting-edge tech team ran circles around her stodgy campaign. And yet, six years later, she has reemerged as an even more powerful and influential figure, a formidable stateswoman and the presumed front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, marking one of the great political comebacks in history. The story of Hillary’s phoenixlike rise is at the heart of HRC, a riveting political biography that journeys into the heart of “Hillaryland” to discover a brilliant strategist at work. Masterfully unfolded by Politico’s Jonathan Allen and The Hill’s Amie Parnes from more than two hundred top-access interviews with Hillary’s intimates, colleagues, supporters, and enemies, HRC portrays a seasoned operator who negotiates political and diplomatic worlds with equal savvy. Loathed by the Obama team in the wake of the primary, Hillary worked to become the president’s greatest ally, their fates intertwined in the work of reestablishing America on the world stage. HRC puts readers in the room with Hillary during the most intense and pivotal moments of this era, as she mulls the president-elect’s offer to join the administration, pulls the strings to build a coalition for his war against Libya, and scrambles to deal with the fallout from the terrible events in Benghazi - all while keeping one eye focused on 2016. HRC offers a rare look inside the merciless Clinton political machine, as Bill Clinton handled the messy business of avenging Hillary’s primary loss while she tried to remain above the partisan fray. Exploring her friendships and alliances with Robert Gates, David Petraeus, Leon Panetta, Joe Biden, and the president himself, Allen and Parnes show how Hillary fundamentally transformed the State Department through the ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kimberly Farr. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003758/bk_rand_003758_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Strike Up the Band
Teens Jimmy Connors (Mickey Rooney) and Mary Holden (Judy Garland) lift their school's spirits when they update it's stodgy orchestra into a swing band, but can they raise enough cash for the kids to hit the road and compete in front of Paul Whiteman (as himself)? Second scintillating Garland-Rooney musical co-stars June Preisser, William Tracy, Larry Nunn, Busby Berkeley directs. Score includes "Our Love Affair," "Nobody," "Nell of New Rochelle," and the title tune. 120 min. Standard, Soundtracks: English DTS HD mono Master Audio, Dolby Digital mono, Subtitles: English (SDH).- Shop: odax
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Bringing Up Baby (Criterion Collection)
Stodgy, affianced paleontologist David Huxley (Cary Grant) had his worries between finding the last bone for a brontosaur skeleton and wheedling a six-figure grant for his museum. He then caught the interested eye of flighty, fun-loving society gal Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn), who proceeded to undo his ordered existence-with some aid from a tame leopard named Baby. Howard Hawks' dismissed-in-it's-day screwball classic co-stars Charles Ruggles, May Robson, Barry Fitzgerald. 102 min. Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono, Subtitles: English (SDH), audio commentary, bonus documentary "Howard Hawks: A Hell of a Good Life" (1977), featurettes, audio excerpts, theatrical trailer.- Shop: odax
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