Bibliograph

Hard call, great decisions and the extraordinary people who made them, John McCain with Mark Salter

Type

Label

Hard call, great decisions and the extraordinary people who made them, John McCain with Mark Salter

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 703-723)

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Hard call

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

163576586

Responsibility statement

John McCain with Mark Salter

Sub title

great decisions and the extraordinary people who made them

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

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Contributor