Backfired

Author : Peter Burrows
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471465046
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backfire written by Peter Burrows and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-07-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider's look at the internal turmoil at one of the world's premier high-tech companies This is the inside story of Hewlett-Packard Company's struggle to regain its former glory, and of the high-stakes battle between CEO Carly Fiorina and family scion Walter Hewlett over how best to achieve that goal. For decades, HP was admired not only for its innovative products and soaring stock price, but for its egalitarian corporate culture and father-knows-best integrity. Backfire explains how the company fell on hard times, recounts the historic decision that made Fiorina the world's top-ranking female executive, and brings to life the backlash that resulted when she tried to impose her charismatic salesmanship on the aging icon. Top BusinessWeek journalist Peter Burrows gives the dramatic blow-by-blow of Hewlett's effort to kill Fiorina's most controversial move of all, her $19 billion purchase of rival Compaq Computer. Fiorina won by a whisker, after the most expensive proxy fight in history and a dramatic lawsuit that accused the company of illegally fixing the vote. This gripping, ongoing story includes fascinating personalities and dramatic boardroom and courtroom drama. Peter Burrows (Alameda, CA) has been a technology reporter for BusinessWeek for nine years and has covered the HP saga from the start. The department editor for BusinessWeek's computer coverage, he has been the principal chronicler of Fiorina's tenure at HP, and has written three cover stories on the subject. He has also written numerous other cover stories, including looks at Steve Jobs's Apple Computer and Sun Microsystems' Scott McNealy.

Author : Loren Baritz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backfire written by Loren Baritz and published by . This book was released on 1998-06-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a probing look at the myths of American culture that led us into the Vietnam quagmire, Loren Baritz exposes our national illusions: the conviction of our moral supremacy, our assumption that Americans are more idealistic than other people, and our faith in a technology that supposedly makes us invincible. He also reveals how Vietnam changed American culture today, from the successes and failures of the Washington bureaucracy to the destruction of the traditional military code of honor.

Author : Brian Martin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742540866
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Justice Ignited written by Brian Martin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attacks can backfire on attackers_sometimes spectacularly. In March 1991, an observer videotaped several Los Angeles police beating Rodney King with their batons. Shown on television, the beating caused enormous damage to the reputation of the police and led to the chief's resignation. This incident and others, such as the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 1965 surveillance of Ralph Nader, prove that all sorts of attacks can backfire, from torture and massacres to job dismissals and reprisals against whistle-blowers. Through numerous detailed case studies, Justice Ignited presents the first comprehensive treatment of the dynamics of backfire, as it reveals the most promising tactics for causing the backfire of unfair attacks. Understanding backfire_both promoting and inhibiting it_is vitally important for activists and everyone else who wants to be effective in the face of injustice.

Author : J T Fisher
Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1489730141
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backfired written by J T Fisher and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick was willing to go to any lengths to be with his High School crush. Some would say he had an unhealthy obsession with Jeanie, but he had dreamt about this for his whole adult life. He didn’t think it was unhealthy...He only wished it had come sooner. Some would also say, you should be careful what you wish for.

Author : Dave Pantano
Publisher : Source Point Press
ISBN 13 : 9781954412026
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backfired written by Dave Pantano and published by Source Point Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superheroic comedy following Wally as he navigates comics, Hollywood, weird science, and supervillains! Hollywood has come calling, and they're giving Wally McDermott five days to perfect the pitch for his comic, Backfire! He'll have to conquer writer's block, a marriage on the rocks, a villainous scoundrel of his own creation, and a precocious niece whose science project might just be the end of him. The odds in Vegas aren't in his favor in this very meta and very adult super-hero comedy!

Author : William J. Federer
Publisher : Amerisearch, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780975345542
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backfired written by William J. Federer and published by Amerisearch, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did America go from Pilgrims seeking freedom to express their Christian beliefs to today's discrimination against those very beliefs in the name of tolerance? Federer investigates.

Author : David Mark Chalmers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742523111
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backfire written by David Mark Chalmers and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Chalmers, the leading historian of the Ku Klux Klan, brings the story of America's oldest terrorist society up to date. Chalmers skillfully shows how Klan violence actually aided the civil rights movement of the 1960s and revolutionized the role of the national government in the protection of civil rights. He follows the forty-year struggle to punish Klan murderers through the courts of Alabama, Georgia, and the U.S. Supreme Court, and how Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center finally found a way to bring the Klan down.

Author : David McRaney
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101621788
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Are Now Less Dumb written by David McRaney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the bestselling You Are Not So Smart shares more discoveries about self-delusion and irrational thinking, and gives readers a fighting chance at outsmarting their not-so-smart brains David McRaney’s first book, You Are Not So Smart, evolved from his wildly popular blog of the same name. A mix of popular psychology and trivia, McRaney’s insights have struck a chord with thousands, and his blog--and now podcasts and videos--have become an Internet phenomenon. Like You Are Not So Smart, You Are Now Less Dumb is grounded in the idea that we all believe ourselves to be objective observers of reality--except we’re not. But that’s okay, because our delusions keep us sane. Expanding on this premise, McRaney provides eye-opening analyses of fifteen more ways we fool ourselves every day, including: The Misattribution of Arousal (Environmental factors have a greater affect on our emotional arousal than the person right in front of us) Sunk Cost Fallacy (We will engage in something we don’t enjoy just to make the time or money already invested “worth it”) Deindividuation (Despite our best intentions, we practically disappear when subsumed by a mob mentality) McRaney also reveals the true price of happiness, why Benjamin Franklin was such a badass, and how to avoid falling for our own lies. This smart and highly entertaining book will be wowing readers for years to come.

Author : Catherine Coulter
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101587326
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backfire written by Catherine Coulter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Savich are Sherlock take on an assassin in this novel in Catherine Coulter's FBI Thriller series. For what you did you deserve this. The mysterious note delivered to FBI agent Dillon Savich has him and his partner, Lacey Sherlock, on edge, just as they’re starting an investigation into the shooting of their longtime friend Ramsey Hunt. The San Francisco judge was shot in the back during a high-profile murder trial—and now Sherlock's and Savich’s search for the truth will take a shocking turn that no one could have seen coming…

Author : Sadie Thatcher
Publisher : Sadie Thatcher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backfire written by Sadie Thatcher and published by Sadie Thatcher. This book was released on with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riley is not a nice person. She blames everyone but herself for her problems. When she is not blaming others, she is trying to manipulate them to give her what she wants. The issue is, however, her old tricks don’t work anymore, leaving Riley angry and vengeful. When Riley discovers a magic spell book in the college library, she believes it will give her the edge she needs to turn her life around. She finds a bimbofication spell that she can use on the last person to anger her. The only problem is when Riley tries to use the spell, it backfires and turns her into a bimbo instead of her intended target. Will Riley find a cure for the spell or will she embrace the life of the campus bimbo? Find out in Backfire. This 7,500 word short story contains magical physical and mental transformations with descriptions of various sexual acts, breast enlargement and various other body augmentations. This story has strong adult content and should not be viewed by anyone under the age of 18. All characters found in the story are 18 or older.