The Turnaround Kid: What I Learned Rescuing America's Most Troubled Companies | 
 enlarge | Author: Steve Miller
Creator: Dick Hill
Publisher: Tantor Media
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 1182829
Format: Audiobook, Cd
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 9
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Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 6.2 x 1
ISBN: 1400136121
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.76292092
EAN: 9781400136124
ASIN: 1400136121
Publication Date: April 15, 2008
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Product Description
In this frank memoir, Steve Miller, who has spent the majority of his career salvaging American companies on the verge of ruin, reveals a rarely seen side of American management. This is a blunt and unsparing look at Miller's own education as an American executive.
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 The Turnaround Kid June 28, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Very interesting read--both the business as well as personal. I felt as though the author was speaking to me on a one to one.
An inspiring, enlightening account. June 20, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
THE TURNAROUND KID: WHAT I LEARNED RESCUING AMERICA'S MOST TROUBLED COMPANIES recounts the high points of the author's career rescuing American business disasters - and in the process offers college-level business libraries the opportunity to understand the evolution of a business genius. Blending business management concepts with a memoir, THE TURNAROUND KID shows how the author turned around his own life as well as businesses, reshaping and restructuring the very foundations of big business procedures in the process. An inspiring, enlightening account.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
 Boring! June 2, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I expected more. An exciting book that would provide insight on financial workouts. Well I didn't get, I wanted to close the book several times, but I hate leaving a book half read. If you are looking for a interesteing read, this isn't it.
Restoring Faith In American Executive Elite May 21, 2008
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Mr. Miller comes across as a hard-working, pragmatic, unaffected and down to earth guy who sees the big picture and cares about people in it. We can only hope that there are more executives like him at the top of F500 companies. I would recommend this book to any MBA programme as a supplement to their business ethics programme or anybody who has ever struggled to calibrate his/her own moral compass under pressures from various constituencies.
A Man Who Loves Challenges May 6, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a thoroughly enjoyable autobiography of Steve Miller, a rising Ford executive who became the go to guy for companies in crisis over more than two decades. At Chrysler, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Olympia & York, Morrison Knudsen, Federal Mogul, Waste Management, Reliance Group Holdings, Bethlehem Steel, Aetna and Delphi, he parachuted into companies on the brink of failure and tried to come up with the best solution. Sometimes the outcome is a roaring success, other times he has to settle for the best of a series of unpleasant choices, and other times he is ineffective.
This book is more Miller's autobiography than a how-to guide to fixing broken companies. The book is only 230 pages long and each company's situation is only covered at a high level. Miller's strength as a businessman is his ability to take a fresh, hard look at the companies, face up to the cold reality and work with all parties to come up with the best possible solution. His book has many on the same strengths; he offers what appears to be an honest (sometimes brutally so) assessment of his own successes and failures, as well as those of the other parties in the drama.
What emerges is the story of a leader who enjoys the excitement of trying to solve complex problems while trying, and succeeding, to do the right thing for his family and the people and companies that depend on him.
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