Stories From The Middle Seat - Hemphill, R. F.
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How do you build a multi-billion dollar international business? And then how do you save one when it seems like all the cards are stacked against you? Sharing letters he sent to his father during his years of traveling the world building-and then saving-a multi-billion dollar company, Bob Hemphill's Stories from the Middle Seat recounts the funny, unique, and sometimes outlandish parts of international business. From a time of significant prosperity to a period of domestic and international financial hardship, we have Bob's insider views on what it takes to be successful, or at least to…mehr

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How do you build a multi-billion dollar international business? And then how do you save one when it seems like all the cards are stacked against you? Sharing letters he sent to his father during his years of traveling the world building-and then saving-a multi-billion dollar company, Bob Hemphill's Stories from the Middle Seat recounts the funny, unique, and sometimes outlandish parts of international business. From a time of significant prosperity to a period of domestic and international financial hardship, we have Bob's insider views on what it takes to be successful, or at least to survive. We go from goose blinds in Virginia to Incan ruins in Peru, from the islands of the Caribbean to those of Greece, from Riyadh in Saudi Arabia to an Israeli kibbutz. Hemphill details the interactions with professional colleagues and with family, deals with the ups and downs of business, and responds with his inimitable wit and wisdom to it all. Whether you're an armchair traveler, a successful or beleaguered business person, or a reader simply looking to enjoy and learn about international business, you will relate to Hemphill's humorous, candid and unfettered take on life, relationships - business and personal - and cultural eccentricities, realizing that it just may be these eccentricities and relationships that define our common humanity.
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R. F. Hemphill became an instant energy expert with minimal credentials when he was thrown into the energy business by the White House at the start of the 1973 embargo. He subsequently worked at the Tennessee Valley Authority, and for thirty five years was a senior executive at AES, a global electric power corporation. He founded AES Solar and built it into one of the world's largest solar companies with fifty plants distributed in eight countries around the globe. He was educated at Yale and UCLA and in Vietnam as an infantry platoon leader. Along the way he survived airborne and Special Forces training and four million miles on United, mostly in coach. His previous books are Dust Tea, Dingoes and Dragons and Stories from the Middle Seat. He lives in Encinitas, California with two cats, one of whom tolerates him.