Free Lessons Learned the Hard Way [Kindle Edition]

A career's worth of managerial lessons all in one place. Inside the cover of “Lessons Learned the Hard Way” you will find 34 distinct stories describing crazy, absurd, harsh, and demanding business experiences, along with the lessons the author learned while living them. The chapters include tales involving: lawsuits, trade law violations, internal politics run amok, bizarre managerial practices, risk taking and its consequences, and both career ascendency and decline.
Throughout the book you will follow John Samuels during his ten years at Opaque Manufacturing Corporation, tracing both his clever moves as well as those that were foolish, while encountering his strange and idiosyncratic superiors, peers, and subordinates. At various times you’ll find yourself cheering John, pitying him, and sneering at his stupidity.
Over the course of the journey, Samuels details more than one hundred and fifty “lessons” he learned along the way. In the context of the various stories, or on their own, the reader has access to a wealth of knowledge about how business really works and how to manage a career.