Shattered Covenants Book IV: The Chairman - Couverture souple

Foster, Dwight E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1403364168 ISBN 13 : 9781403364166

Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2002

Synopsis

Book IV, The Chairman, is the fourth book in a cycle of seven books entitled Shattered Covenants. Shattered Covenants narrates the formation, rise, decline, and fall of McKenzie Barber, a global management consulting firm. The Chairman, Ernie Grey, after eighteen years as McKenzie Barber's CEO is beginning to reflect on succession. He is standing without opposition for his fourth six-year term as the Chairman of McKenzie Barber. The Chairman is narrated from Ernie Grey's point of view. He has been absolute monarch of McKenzie Barber. Instinctively, Ernie recognizes that the market for consulting services has changed, and that McKenzie Barber can no longer grow organically. Ernie Grey made an early choice in Hamilton Burke III, not unlike the manner in which John McKenzie, the founder, had picked out Ernie early in his career. He has moved Burke overseas through the French and the UK practices and brought him back to the US as McKenzie Barber's first Partner in Charge of Strategic Planning. The old line Partners fail to recognize Burke's emergence as a serious Chairman successor. Burke is the ultimate swashbuckling successor, a bachelor, former decorated Green Beret with a French mistress who owns a steel mill and who has an eye for receptive ladies. He is bigger than life with a matching ego. Ernie Grey has commissioned Burke to serve as the change agent to structure the McKenzie Barber in the 1980's. Book IV introduces Ernie Grey's initial flirtation with Toni Alter, a young woman junior in age to his own daughter. Ernie's wife, Millie, is carrying on an affair with Cornelius Vanderkelen, the powerful Chairman of International Petroleum Company (IPCO). The Vanderkelen fortune has been built on oil. Ernie is invited to join the IPCO Board while the Chairman, Cornelius Vanderkelen, is sleeping with his wife. Book IV, the Chairman, covers a three-month period during which Ernie Grey makes a decision on his successor.Prior villains and knaves introduced in the earlier

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Biographie de l'auteur

Dwight Foster, the author of Shattered Covenants, is a native of Minnesota who was transferred to New York City in 1980. He retired as a consulting partner from an international public accounting firm in January 1990 to form an executive search firm. Shattered Covenants is a first novel, which represents an eight year project dealing with the passing of leadership in a professional services firm. Shattered Covenants is Book III of a series of free standing novels relating to the formation of a major management consulting firm, its rise, zenith, decline, and ultimate compliant merger with a principal competitor. Shattered Covenants deals with the passing of CEOs (i.e. kings) and their ultimate effect on the careers and lives of the courtiers and rank and file professionals who follow the leadership of the CEO. The author has spent his business career in the consulting industry and, for the past eleven years, has headed up a well-recognized executive search firm. Dwight Foster has published previously in management studies and magazine articles and is quoted from time to time in the national press. His experience in the practice of executive search and familiarity with organization and business models over the past thirty years provided the motivation to write a sweeping novel. The primary narrator of Shattered Covenants, Joseph Baxter, Jr., is the son of a labor martyr from Minnesota's Iron Range who rises to a Board Room, world traveling executive compensation consultant. Baxter is a modern day Candide who develops the cunning to survive in a ruthlessly competitive business world. Dwight Foster is a University of Minnesota Alumnus, the father of two adult children, and is married to Dorothy Choitz Foster, a well-known consultant to the cosmetics and fragrance industry. The Fosters maintain an apartment in New York City and a permanent home in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: AuthorHouse
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1403364168
• ISBN 13: 9781403364166
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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