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Tough Choices: A Memoir (平装)
by Carly Fiorina
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Memoir, Business, Management, Career success |
| Market price: ¥ 178.00
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| MSL Pointer Review:
Ego. Boardroom politics. Career dilemma. This is an insightful and revealing biography that will allow you to gain glimpses into the dynamics of executive world. |
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The Wall Street Journal (MSL quote), USA
<2007-10-29 00:00>
Most executive memoirs - even the good ones - are sunny to a fault. In their retrospective accounts, heroes like GE's Jack Welch or IBM's Lou Gerstner win most of their battles, thank the many subordinates who helped and offer sage advice along the way. But what if a former boss decided instead to write a really snarky book, sharing all the nastiness - the back-stabbing, grudge-holding and rival-bashing - that must be part of life at the top? What would it be like? We no longer have to imagine. Carly Fiorina has written exactly such a memoir.
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Publishers Weekly (MSL quote), USA
<2007-10-29 00:00>
Much of what Fiorina writes about the board will be in the news around this book's release, but her revelations are valuable beyond gossip-because shareholders are demanding accountability from boards, it's fascinating to be inside a deeply dysfunctional boardroom. And it's just plain fun to see her settle some scores.
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The Economist (MSL quote), USA
<2007-10-29 00:00>
Ms. Fiorina is at her best when recounting the travails of a woman in a male-dominated business culture... [She] is also good in her psychological descriptions of the constant betrayals that occur in corporate bureaucracies. The woman that emerges from these pages is cultured, sensitive and vulnerable, even as she acts tough.
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Reuters (MSL quote), USA
<2007-10-29 00:00>
The memoir of fallen HP leader Carly Fiorina, once America's most powerful woman chief executive, paints an unsparing picture of internal power struggles and gender politics... The book breaks with the anodyne genre of corporate autobiography that is typically long on management philosophy and short on personal revelation. She pulls no punches criticising former colleagues, board members, and underlings. |
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Business Week (MSL quote), USA
<2007-10-29 00:00>
A very engaging read... Many readers will identify with Fiorina as she describes her rise from a solid middle-class background and her life as a loving and dutiful daughter... Chapters dealing with her meteoric rise through Lucent are excellent: Women will find them particularly interesting as she lays to rest the myth of the glass ceiling... Not unexpectedly, half of Tough Choices deals with HP, and it will surely be a must-read for employees and friends of the company. |
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Forbes (MSL quote), USA
<2007-10-29 00:00>
Fiorina wrote the book herself, without a ghostwriter, and it's well-written... When she talks about her own life and how she dealt with the challenges that she faced, we get a glimpse of the human behind the PowerPoint presentations. Readers who buy the book hoping to learn more about her personal life won't be disappointed. Nor will those who want to understand how her childhood and family life influenced her choices. But this is a book about work, written by a business leader whose work was her life. |
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San Jose Mercury News (MSL quote), USA
<2007-10-29 00:00>
[It] reads like a business soap opera, with Fiorina casting herself as the misunderstood, embattled but earnest heroine... But Tough Choices also dishes. It is part Kitty Kelley tell-all, part CEO autobiography. The book casts fresh light on the personalities currently embroiled in the scandal over HP's investigation into boardroom leaks, which has resulted in criminal charges. |
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Nancy Mills (MSL quote), USA
<2007-10-29 00:00>
What Carly has achieved in her career will live on in her companies, her community and the world. What an amazing woman! I was spiritually motivated, not in a religious sense, but rather with the energy, attitude and spirit in how she did business, and the intention and values in which she drove those activities. In her book she shows us that one can still operate with integrity and not have to 'sell your soul' to be successful in this world. She overcame diveristy much of the time and made a positive difference in people's lives. And at the end of the day, that is what truly counts in this life. My hat is off to one remarkable lady.
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M. Kyle (MSL quote), USA
<2007-10-29 00:00>
I bought this book with some speculation. I was intrigued because I am employed by one of the companies Carly mentions in her book and I was also intrigued because she was a female CEO and I wanted to know some "insider" secrets to breaking through the glass. I found what I was looking for and much more. The Carly portrayed in the media is not the Carly revealed in this book. I admire her courage, tenacity, and conviction to stay true to herself through all of the corporate obstacles. The book is a bit challenging to stay with if you are not that interested in business strategies, especially those employed within Lucent or HP. However, Carly's ability to intertwine the other "stuff" going on around her into the message is the beauty of the book. I applaud her for being honest about her feelings and life in general. She taught me that I am not the only manager to experience the politics of a large company. She also taught me that it is okay to cry about it, but then get on with the business of driving the business. Thank you Carly Fiorina.
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Karthik Ganish (MSL quote), USA
<2007-10-29 00:00>
For a woman and non-engineer to lead HP is no small feat and I have always wanted to understand how Carly made it happen. This book does not disappoint in helping me understand how she achieved this. She is an extremely impressive lady and her book is well written... for most part.
There are sections in the book where she goes on and on about incidents at AT&T that start to get boring after a while. It makes sense for her to use those incidents to help the reader understand the experiences that contributed to her becoming such a strong leader, however those sections could have been edited better.
On the whole a good read. How can it not be, when it's the story of a woman who dropped out of law school and went on to become the Chairman and CEO of one of the world's largest corporations.
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