Screen LibraryTime to get tough : how cookies, coffee, and a crash led to success in business and life /
Michael J. Coles, the cofounder of the Great American Cookie Company and the former CEO of Caribou Coffee, did not follow a conventional path into business. He does not have an Ivy League pedigree or an MBA from a top-ten business school. He grew up poor, starting work at the age of thirteen. He had...
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University of Georgia Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Athens, Georgia : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Michael J. Coles, the cofounder of the Great American Cookie Company and the former CEO of Caribou Coffee, did not follow a conventional path into business. He does not have an Ivy League pedigree or an MBA from a top-ten business school. He grew up poor, starting work at the age of thirteen. He had many false starts and painful defeats, but Coles has a habit of defying expectations. His life and career have been about turning obstacles into opportunities, tragedies into triumphs and poverty into philanthropy. In 'Time To Get Tough' Coles explains how he started a $100-million company with o |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: |
0820354627 9780820354620 |
| Index Number: | HD9010 |
| CLC: | K837.125.38 |
| Call Number: | K837.125.38/C693 |
| Contents: | Machine generated contents note: 1.In the Shadow of Goliath -- 2.Hey Kid, Do You Want a Job? -- 3.It's All Sold -- 4.What Strike? -- 5.Do You Know How Many Cookies? -- 6.From Cookie to Counter -- 7.The Crash -- 8.Inch by Inch -- 9.Exit 666 -- 10.TTGT -- 11.The Reckoning -- 12.That Was Pretty Fast -- 13.Building a Brand Religion -- 14.Fifty Percent to Go -- 15.This Is the Battlefield -- 16.Service, Service, Service -- 17.Love Spoken Here -- 18.The Last Five Miles. |