Back Fire

Author : Peter Burrows
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780471465041

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An insider's look at the internal turmoil at one of the world's premier high-tech companies This is the inside story of Hewlett-Packard Company's struggle to regain its former glory, and of the high-stakes battle between CEO Carly Fiorina and family scion Walter Hewlett over how best to achieve that goal. For decades, HP was admired not only for its innovative products and soaring stock price, but for its egalitarian corporate culture and father-knows-best integrity. Backfire explains how the company fell on hard times, recounts the historic decision that made Fiorina the world's top-ranking female executive, and brings to life the backlash that resulted when she tried to impose her charismatic salesmanship on the aging icon. Top BusinessWeek journalist Peter Burrows gives the dramatic blow-by-blow of Hewlett's effort to kill Fiorina's most controversial move of all, her $19 billion purchase of rival Compaq Computer. Fiorina won by a whisker, after the most expensive proxy fight in history and a dramatic lawsuit that accused the company of illegally fixing the vote. This gripping, ongoing story includes fascinating personalities and dramatic boardroom and courtroom drama. Peter Burrows (Alameda, CA) has been a technology reporter for BusinessWeek for nine years and has covered the HP saga from the start. The department editor for BusinessWeek's computer coverage, he has been the principal chronicler of Fiorina's tenure at HP, and has written three cover stories on the subject. He has also written numerous other cover stories, including looks at Steve Jobs's Apple Computer and Sun Microsystems' Scott McNealy.

Author : Roger Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015034307523

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Back Fire by Roger Warner Pdf

From 1960 to 1973, the United States and the communist powers waged a hidden war in Laos, which led ultimately to the catastrophe of the Vietnam War. Warner's groundbreaking book offers the first full account of this secret war, based on his access to previously closed files and to interviews with intelligence players, military officers and government officials who have not spoken out before.

Author : Alan Clark
Publisher : Phoenix House
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0753813734

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Back Fire by Alan Clark Pdf

Alan Clark was passionate about cars from an early age. He bought his first car - a secondhand 6.5 litre Bentley - while still a schoolboy at Eton and without a driving licence. By the time he was 24 he had been banned from driving three times, not only for speeding but in one instance for driving an open Buick Roadster with a girl on his lap. He dealt in 'classic' and vintage cars and soon built up an impressive stable of his own. One of his first published pieces of journalism appeared in the US magazine, Road and Track, for which he was briefly UK correspondent. BACK FIRE, the title of a column he wrote in Thoroughbred and Classic Cars magazine, ran for three years until his death in September 1999. Alan Clark's elder son, James Clark - who has inherited his father's motoring enthusiasms - provides a Prologue; Alan Clark's widow Jane writes a moving Afterword.

Author : Kennedy Seagrave
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781480863699

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Backfire by Kennedy Seagrave Pdf

After twenty-six years in the fire service, author Kennedy Seagrave came to realize that many of the tactics used in firefighting could be helpful in fighting metaphorical fires in everyday life as well. Now she seeks to share the wisdom she gained over the years, while telling her story along the way. Backfire provides a series of practical strategies and problem-solving approaches that can be applied to anyones life, in a wide variety of circumstances. For example, small decisions made correctly can make a tremendous difference in life. Identifying the significance of choices is also essential. Embracing a size-up outlook in life can help you to disregard the often overpowering distractions and evaluate the situation before you make a decisionwhether its entering a burning building to save a life or deciding which college to attend. From the initial sizing up of the situation to the postincident analysis, each step offers methods for dealing with the difficult situations in life based in the techniques used by firefighters every day. Based on the personal narrative and knowledge of a firefighter with more than two decades of experience, this self-help guide presents problem-solving strategies for all people.

Author : Gary Snyder
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781458753281

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Back on the Fire by Gary Snyder Pdf

In Back on the Fire, Snyders essays offer his reminiscences on a wide range of topics, from art in Paris to logging on the American West Coast. Throughout the work he gives a powerful voice to nature, whose protests often get lost amid the human d...

Author : Francis J. Zucker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Antennas (Electronics)
ISBN : UOM:39015095129113

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The Backfire Antenna by Francis J. Zucker Pdf

Author : Hermann W. Ehrenspeck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Antennas (Electronics)
ISBN : UOM:39015095127919

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The Short-backfire Antenna by Hermann W. Ehrenspeck Pdf

Author : Hermann W. Ehrenspeck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Antennas (Electronics)
ISBN : UOM:39015095128719

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High-gain UHF Backfire Antenna for Communications, Telemetry, and Radio Astronomy by Hermann W. Ehrenspeck Pdf

The backfire antenna described combines the structural advantages of a single endfire with the high gain of a reflector antenna. With its principal application in the gain range between 15 and 30 dB where ordinary endfire antennas become impractically long and paraboloidal antennas too expensive, it should prove to be especially advantageous for telemetry and radio astronomy applications in the 100- to 2000-MHz frequency range. The high gain of the backfire is based on the high-amplitude standing-wave field distribution formed between two planar reflectors. The space between the reflectors acts like an open resonating cavity that in basic configuration and function resembles a Fabrey-Perot laser cavity. An S-band model of a 4.0-wavelength backfire produces a gain of 23.5 dB at its optimum frequency, which corresponds to the gain of an equal-size paraboloidal antenna of 60% efficiency. Patterns show a very low side- and backlobe level over a frequency range of 1.25 to 1. Design information for these backfire antennas is given. Compared with an optimized equal-length Yagi, the backfire antenna produces an increase in gain of more than 8 dB. To achieve a gain of this magnitude with an ordinary array, one of two recently built antennas for satellite applications uses 16 Yagis, each 2.0 wavelength long, to produce a gain of 22.4 dB, and another uses 36 cavity-backed slots to produce 21.2 dB. These results emphasize the advantages of the single-element backfire antenna, whose 23.5 dB gain is achieved through a simple structural design that does not depend on the complicated feed systems that are necessary components in multielement arrays. (Author).

Author : Ralph Melvin Nelson (Jr.),Darold E. Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Forest fires
ISBN : MINN:20000003672322

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Backfire Particulate Emissions and Byram's Fire Intensity by Ralph Melvin Nelson (Jr.),Darold E. Ward Pdf

Author : Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld,Andrew Ward
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1591393019

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Firing Back by Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld,Andrew Ward Pdf

Sonnenfeld and Ward show how to rise Phoenix-like from the ashes. Their account of the psychological and behavioral foundations of that important qualityresilienceis important reading for everyone who will ever face a reversal of fortune.Jeffrey Pfeffer, Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University Is it possible to rescue your career and restore your reputation after a major professional setback? In an age rife with press accounts of disgraced CEOs, politicians, and celebritiesas well as courageous but beleaguered whistleblowers and victims of rivals or envious colleagues and bossesthis question has grown more important than ever. In Firing Back, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Andrew Ward answer the question with a resounding Yes. They go on to lay out a practical and an important five-step process for actually recovering from setbacks. Following these steps will help guide you through the difficult circumstances, rebuild your reputation, and chart a new future. The authors also explore strategies for surmounting common barriers to career recovery, including tricky corporate cultures and psychological stresses. Anchored in decades of research and scholarly studies across multiple fields, this book is packed with engrossing stories and first-hand accounts from humbled but restored CEOs and executives from firms as diverse as General Electric, The Home Depot, Morgan Stanley, Apple, Staples, and Hewlett-Packard. Firing Back offers a clear plan for anyone who needs to recover from a career setback and reclaim lost prestige and reputationwhether the setback stemmed from his own actions or forces outside her control.

Author : Elizabeth Goddard
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Alaska
ISBN : 9780373446742

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Backfire by Elizabeth Goddard Pdf

NOWHERE LEFT TO HIDE Tracy Murray had thought she'd be safe disappearing in the wilds of Alaska after her testimony put away a gang leader. But the gang symbol tattooed on an attacker's arm means the clock has run out. She's been found--and she knows the killers won't let her escape alive again. She can't fight an entire gang alone--she needs help. But when she finds herself relying on widowed firefighter David Warren, a new struggle emerges. Fleeing Alaska and cutting all ties could be the only way to survive...but it would mean leaving her heart behind. Mountain Cove: In the Alaskan wilderness, love and danger collide

Author : Ron Boggs
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781491729496

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Backfire by Ron Boggs Pdf

CHICAGO-THE GEM OF THE PRAIRIE-EARLY AUTUMN, 1871 The city was alive. Raw materials and finished goods moved as fast as the new railroads and lake schooners could carry them. Wisconsin white pine lumber was big business in a city composed of thousands of wooden structures connected by wooden sidewalks and wooden-block streets. Competition was fierce, ruthless, and deadly. An Eau Claire lumberman is killed in his hotel room and a competitor, Arlyn Rygg, from Green Bay, must work with the police to find the real killer in order to exonerate himself. His inquiries draw him into a maelstrom of intrigue and deception. Ultimately he races through the Great Fire and learns more than he ever wanted to know. Praise for Natural Drift, a contemporary Western action mystery pinning a Montana County Sheriff against a rogue U.S. Marshall. "I am writing to let you know how much I enjoyed your novel, Natural Drift. I found it to be a very good read with a realistic plot and well developed characters. I honestly could not put it down once I started it." -Sheriff Thomas Rieger, Carbon County, Montana

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433006606580

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Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Forest Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : UCBK:C058310746

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Bulletin by United States. Forest Service Pdf

Author : Catherine Coulter
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101587324

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Backfire by Catherine Coulter Pdf

Savich are Sherlock take on an assassin in this novel in Catherine Coulter's FBI Thriller series. For what you did you deserve this. The mysterious note delivered to FBI agent Dillon Savich has him and his partner, Lacey Sherlock, on edge, just as they’re starting an investigation into the shooting of their longtime friend Ramsey Hunt. The San Francisco judge was shot in the back during a high-profile murder trial—and now Sherlock's and Savich’s search for the truth will take a shocking turn that no one could have seen coming…