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Down and out in Silicon Valley : the high cost of the high-tech dream / Mel Krantzler, Patricia Biondi Krantzler.
Lippincott Library HF5549.5.C8 K7 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Krantzler, Mel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Employees--Counseling of--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).
- Employees.
- Employees--Counseling of.
- California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).
- High technology industries--Employees--Health and hygiene--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).
- High technology industries.
- High technology industries--Employees.
- California.
- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)--Social conditions.
- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.).
- Physical Description:
- 200 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2002.
- Summary:
- Like Icarus flying too close to the sun, many once-promising dot.com entrepreneurs have been burned by overweening ambition and come crashing to the ground. Besides the economic wreckage left in the wake of their high-flying dreams there is also a good deal of psychological turmoil. Psychologists Mel Krantzler and his wife Pat, both counselors who have helped hundreds of managers and CEOs of high-tech companies cope with dreams turned to nightmares, expose the shadowy side of Silicon Valley in this revealing book about the personal costs of "success." In addition to being a psychologist, Dr. Krantzler is also a trained economist. His economic expertise, combined with his psychology practice, enables him to uniquely illuminate Silicon Valley's culture from both perspectives. This is the first book to explode the romanticized myth of Silicon Valley, which is still so prevalent in advertising and the media.
- Contents:
- 1. Silicon Valley Then and Now 15
- 2. Everything Old Is New Again 31
- 3. The Media Hype That Hides the Cold Reality of Silicon Valley 47
- 4. Exposing the Myth of Gender Equality in Silicon Valley 71
- 5. The Dot-Com Firestorm 103
- 6. The Quality of Personal Life in Silicon Valley 123
- 7. Archetypes of Silicon Valley 151
- 8. September 11, 2001 191.
- ISBN:
- 1573929263
- OCLC:
- 48966804
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