Packard

Author : Beverly Rae Kimes
Publisher : Automobile Quarterly Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Automobile industry and trade
ISBN : 0971146810

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Packard by Beverly Rae Kimes Pdf

Only the legendary Packard could command a book of such scope and expense. This monumental work has required ten years of research, documentation and photography. It represents many more decades of collecting Packard automobiles, facts, photographs, technical data and information to record for all time every aspect, every model, every achievement of the Packard motor car and the men who made its name an emblem and international byword for taste and refinement in automotive design and engineering. Over three years were spent in intensive writing, checking, cross-checking, rewriting, coordinating, editing, and winnowing thousands of rare and unpublished historic photographs. This volume represents the scholarly efforts of sixteen contributors and was written by ten highly qualified authorities on Packard lore.Winner of a Cugnot Award.

Author : Linda V. Carlisle
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252090073

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Elizabeth Packard by Linda V. Carlisle Pdf

Elizabeth Packard's story is one of courage and accomplishment in the face of injustice and heartbreak. In 1860, her husband, a strong-willed Calvinist minister, committed her to an Illinois insane asylum in an effort to protect their six children and his church from what he considered her heretical religious ideas. Upon her release three years later (as her husband sought to return her to an asylum), Packard obtained a jury trial and was declared sane. Before the trial ended, however, her husband sold their home and left for Massachusetts with their young children and her personal property. His actions were perfectly legal under Illinois and Massachusetts law; Packard had no legal recourse by which to recover her children and property. This experience in the legal system, along with her experience as an asylum patient, launched Packard into a career as an advocate for the civil rights of married women and the mentally ill. She wrote numerous books and lobbied legislatures literally from coast to coast advocating more stringent commitment laws, protections for the rights of asylum patients, and laws to give married women equal rights in matters of child custody, property, and earnings. Despite strong opposition from the psychiatric community, Packard's laws were passed in state after state, with lasting impact on commitment and care of the mentally ill in the United States. Packard's life demonstrates how dissonant streams of American social and intellectual history led to conflict between the freethinking Packard, her Calvinist husband, her asylum doctor, and America's fledgling psychiatric profession. It is this conflict--along with her personal battle to transcend the stigma of insanity and regain custody of her children--that makes Elizabeth Packard's story both forceful and compelling.

Author : Robert A. Burgelman,Webb McKinney,Philip E. Meza
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190640460

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Becoming Hewlett Packard by Robert A. Burgelman,Webb McKinney,Philip E. Meza Pdf

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard invented the model of the Silicon Valley start-up and set in motion a process of corporate becoming that made it possible for HP to transform itself six times over the 77 years since its founding in the face of sweeping technological changes that felled most of its competitors over the years. Today, HP is in the throes of a seventh transformation to secure its continued survival by splitting in two independent companies: HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Based on extensive primary research conducted over more than 15 years, this book documents the differential contribution of HP's successive CEOs in sustaining the company's integral process of becoming. It uses a comprehensive strategic leadership framework to examine and explain the role of the CEO: (1) defining and executing the key tasks of strategic leadership, and (2) developing four key elements of the company's strategic leadership capability. The study of the strategic leadership of HP's successive CEOs revealed the paradox of corporate becoming, the existential situation facing successive CEOs (that justifies the book's empathic approach), and the importance of the CEO's ability to harness the company's past while also driving its future. Building on these novel insights, the book shows how the frameworks used to conceptualize the tasks of strategic leadership and the development of strategic leadership capability can serve as steps toward a dynamic theory of strategic leadership that animates an evolutionary framework of corporate becoming. This framework will be helpful for further theory development about strategic leadership and also offers practical tools for founders of new companies and CEOs and boards of directors of existing companies who intend to create, run or oversee companies built for continued relevance, longevity and greatness.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : United States
ISBN : LOC:00061498606

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Nominations of Laird, Packard, and Darden by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045144560

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Nominations of Laird, Packard, and Darden, Hearings ... 91-1, January 14,15, 1969 by United States. Congress. Senate. Armed Services Pdf

Author : Daniel Horowitz
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0807821411

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Vance Packard & American Social Criticism by Daniel Horowitz Pdf

Traces the influence of Packard's early life on his works on social criticism and notes his viewpoints in the context of a writer lacking academic affiliation

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924106417862

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Packard's Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000058936467

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Hewlett-Packard's Pretexting Scandal by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Pdf

Author : E. P. W. Packard
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4057664563514

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Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity by E. P. W. Packard Pdf

This book discusses about the marital power embodied in the trial of Mrs. Packard and the self-defense of the husband who was sentenced to three years imprisonment due to insanity or religious belief for the arbitrary will of the husband. This work aims to call on the government to so change the laws as to protect the rights of married women.

Author : Evan P. Ide
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0738512087

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Packard Motor Car Company by Evan P. Ide Pdf

Founded in 1899, the Packard Motor Car Company grew into one of America's finest automobile companies, producing cars that exemplified American quality and innovation. Packards were the cars of presidents, movie stars, and those with an appreciation for high quality. The company is known for producing a variety of automobiles, as well as marine engines for PT boats. The Packard represents the classic era of automobile manufacturing and remains one of the most sought-after collector cars. The Packard Motor Car Company was in existence from 1899 to 1957, but the golden era of Packard cars came to a close in the late 1930s. The images featured in this book represent the early years at the Warren, Ohio and Detroit, Michigan factories. The first Packard was built in 1899, and the company then went on to build the fifth car to climb Mount Washington and some of the finest record-setting racecars in the history of automobile racing. Packard Motor Car Company contains rare images from the Larz Anderson Auto Museum that were saved from the Packard factory and the personal collection of James Ward Packard when the company closed.

Author : Susan Packard
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780525504658

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Fully Human by Susan Packard Pdf

HGTV cofounder Susan Packard launches the next chapter in emotional intelligence (EQ), and shows you how to increase your personal satisfaction and productivity—in work and life—via her three-step path toward EQ Fitness. Emotions can sink us, or they can power us like fuel to succeed. Many of us show up for work, and life, feeling lonely even in a room full of people, or bringing unproductive emotions into work, like anger or fear. You don’t have to feel this way. Susan Packard offers an accessible new guidebook to grow your emotional fitness, and it’s arrived just in time, as technology is quickly becoming our main interface for communication. No matter where you are in your career, success is an inside job. Packard lays out how to develop interdependent work relationships, and for leaders, how to build healthy company cultures. Packard introduces us to successful people, and companies, that are rich with ‘connector’ emotions like hope, empathy and trust-building. She tackles unconventional topics, like how workaholism keeps us emotionally adolescent, and how forgiveness belongs in the workplace too. Packard shares her EQ Fit-catalyzed success at HGTV and the stories of the executives she coaches in mindfulness and other emerging techniques, and she teaches an ‘inside out’ practice of self-discovery, which helps you uncover unproductive emotions, and dispel them. The best leaders balance power and grace, and everyone can effectively use resilience--an ability to endure tough situations and make tough decisions, and vulnerability, a willingness to open up, change, and admit when we need help. She offers new tools to bring our strongest emotional selves to work each day.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1202 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Boston (Mass.)
ISBN : UCBK:C041450533

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The Boston Directory by Anonim Pdf

Author : American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Cattle
ISBN : UCAL:B3243688

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American Hereford Record and Hereford Herd Book by American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association Pdf

Brief history of Hereford cattle: v. 1, p. 359-375.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Casco (Allegan County, Mich. : Township)
ISBN : UOM:39015071410214

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South Haven City Directories by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Tax Court
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1574 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Taxation
ISBN : UOM:49015002895432

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Reports of the Tax Court of the United States by United States. Tax Court Pdf