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Hard call : great decisions and the extraordinary people who made them / John McCain with Mark Salter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCain, John, 1936-2018.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biography--Miscellanea.
- Biography.
- Decision making--Case studies.
- Decision making.
- Genre:
- Trivia and miscellanea.
- Case studies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 456 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Twelve, 2007.
- Summary:
- At some point in our lives, we all face tough decisions and have to make that hard call. In this book, Senator McCain and Mark Salter use experiences of both extraordinary people and people in extraordinary circumstances to describe the anatomy of a great decision. Highlights include: Henry Ford's decision to sacrifice his company's competitive edge by reducing the work day and guaranteeing a minimum wage; Branch Rickey's decision to offer Jackie Robinson a contract to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the face of public opposition; Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf 's decision to return to wartorn Liberia after receiving an economics degree from Harvard; General Fred Weyand's decision to redeploy fifteen of his battalions despite resistance from senior American military commanders in Vietnam; and much more.--From publisher description.
- Contents:
- Awareness
- The Mahatma and the Intruder 13
- Satisfaction Guaranteed 56
- Rocket Men 84
- Foresight
- "I Hear the Steady Drummer" 125
- Patent Number 174,465 158
- Turning Point 190
- Timing
- The Master Stroke 245
- Sell the Shave, Not the Razor 267
- "Shalom, Salaam, Forever" 294
- Confidence
- Miss What For 351
- Landing the Eagle 372
- The Surgeon Scientist 398
- In Command 422
- Humility
- Ma Ellen 471
- To Secure These Rights 496
- The Paradox of War 524
- The Quality of Mercy 558
- Inspiration
- No Holier Place 597
- Duty to the Dead 637
- The Covenant 658.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780446580403
- 0446580406
- 9780446581424
- 0446581429
- OCLC:
- 85892201
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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