The Company I Keep

The Company I Keep
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 432
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ISBN-10 : 9780062990952
ISBN-13 : 0062990950
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Company I Keep by : Leonard A. Lauder

Download or read book The Company I Keep written by Leonard A. Lauder and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his much-anticipated memoir, The Company I Keep: My Life in Beauty, Chairman Emeritus and former CEO of The Estée Lauder Companies Leonard A. Lauder shares the business and life lessons he learned as well as the adventures he had while helping transform the mom-and-pop business his mother founded in 1946 in the family kitchen into the beloved brand and ultimately into the iconic global prestige beauty company it is today. In its infancy in the 1940s and 50s, the company comprised a handful of products, sold under a single brand in just a few prestigious department stores across the United States. Today, The Estée Lauder Companies constitutes one of the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of prestige skin care, makeup, fragrance and hair care products. It comprises more than 25 brands, whose products are sold in over 150 countries and territories. This growth and success was led by Leonard A. Lauder, Estée Lauder’s oldest son, who envisioned and effected this expansion during a remarkable 60-year tenure, including leading the company as CEO and Chairman. In this captivating personal account complete with great stories as only he can tell them, Mr. Lauder, now known as The Estée Lauder Companies’ “Chief Teaching Officer,” reflects on his childhood, growing up during the Great Depression, the vibrant decades of the post-World War II boom, and his work growing the company into the beauty powerhouse it is today. Mr. Lauder pays loving tribute to his mother Estée Lauder, its eponymous founder, and to the employees of the company, both past and present, while sharing inside stories about the company, including tales of cutthroat rivalry with Charles Revson of Revlon and others. The book offers keen insights on honing ambition, leveraging success, learning from mistakes, and growing an international company in an age of economic turbulence, uncertainty, and fierce competition.

The Company You Keep

The Company You Keep
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Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9781447227847
ISBN-13 : 1447227840
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Company You Keep by : Neil Gordon

Download or read book The Company You Keep written by Neil Gordon and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When journalist Benjamin Schulberg discovers a link between liberal lawyer Jim Grant and a notorious Vietnam-era fugitive, the world that Jim has carefully built for himself and his daughter collapses. His cover blown, Jim is forced to go on the run after decades living under his false identity. Still wanted for his part in an act of domestic terrorism in 1974, he must travel deep into his past to clear his name and save his young daughter. Set against the backdrop of the Vietnam war, The Company You Keep is an intelligent thriller about political ideals, family loyalties, and the shadowy world of the radical anti-war group the Weather Underground.

Careful of the Company You Keep

Careful of the Company You Keep
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Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : 9780758268488
ISBN-13 : 0758268483
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Careful of the Company You Keep by : Angie Daniels

Download or read book Careful of the Company You Keep written by Angie Daniels and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Trouble Loves Company comes a smart, sexy, heartfelt new novel about friendship, love, lust--and a whole lot of trouble in between. After finding her husband in a compromising position, romance author Renee Moore goes back to her hometown, hoping to start over. But once again, she finds herself looking for love in all the wrong places. To make matters worse, just as she decides a healthy relationship may not be her destiny, her ex delivers shocking news that could change her life forever. Practical nurse Danielle Brooks' professional life is picture perfect, but her personal life is a mess. Her daughter is about to give birth to a baby believed to have been fathered by Danielle's ex. In an attempt to mend her shattered heart, Danielle has been dating Calvin Cambridge, a truly nice guy. But when Calvin proposes, Danielle wants to be sure she is ready to commit. She enlists Renee to test his fidelity, but when the seduction goes too far, all their relationships may be in jeopardy. Meanwhile, their best friend is getting married, and she is counting on Renee and Danielle to help her plan the wedding--whether they are speaking to each other or not. But with Renee now being threatened by a mystery woman, and Danielle facing her most serious crisis yet, they can not help wondering if it is all going to get worse before it gets better. As things come to a head in each woman's life, there is a whole lot of praying going on--and Renee and Danielle soon realize they are blessed in spite of it all--with faith, second chances--and each other.

The Company We Keep

The Company We Keep
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 9781443457545
ISBN-13 : 144345754X
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Company We Keep by : Frances Itani

Download or read book The Company We Keep written by Frances Itani and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Tuesday nights in the backroom of Cassie’s café, six strangers seek solace and find themselves part of a “Company of Good Cheer” Hazzley is at loose ends, even three years after the death of her husband. When her longtime friend Cassandra, café owner and occasional dance-class partner, suggests that she start up a conversation group, Hazzley posts a notice on the community board at the local grocery store. Four people turn up for the first meeting: Gwen, a recently widowed retiree in her early sixties, who finds herself pet-sitting a cantankerous parrot; Chiyo, a forty-year-old fitness instructor who cared for her unyielding but gossip-loving mother through the final days of her life; Addie, a woman pre-emptively grieving a close friend who is seriously ill; and Tom, an antiques dealer and amateur poet who, deprived of home baking since becoming a widower, comes to the first meeting hoping cake will be served. Before long, they are joined by Allam, a Syrian refugee with his own story to tell. These six strangers are learning that beginnings can be possible at any stage of life. But as they tell their stories, they must navigate what is shared and what is withheld. Which version of the truth will be revealed? Who is prepared to step up when help is needed? This moving, funny and deeply empathic new novel from acclaimed author Frances Itani reminds us that life, with all its twists and turns, never loses its capacity to surprise.

The Company We Keep

The Company We Keep
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 571
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ISBN-10 : 9780520062108
ISBN-13 : 0520062108
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Company We Keep by : Wayne C. Booth

Download or read book The Company We Keep written by Wayne C. Booth and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bibliography of ethical criticism": p. 505-534. Presents arguments for the relocation of ethics to the center of literature, examining periods, genres, and particular works.

The Company You Keep

The Company You Keep
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Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015077661232
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Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Company You Keep by : David C. Bentall

Download or read book The Company You Keep written by David C. Bentall and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David C. Bentall provides clear answers to this question based on personal experience. For more than twelve years, David and his two close friends, Carson and Bob, have supported each other in a friendship based on a covenant of support. In this covenant, the friends committed to eight specific promises: to affirm one another; to be available to one another (in proper relation to our commitments to marriage and family); to pray with and for each other; to be open with each other; to relate to each other in honesty, sensitivity, and confidentiality; to be accountable to each other. Bentall chronicles how this covenant bond of friendship has had a positive impact on all aspects of their lives-work, family and parenting, physical fitness, self-esteem, career, and spirituality. Book jacket.

The Company We Keep

The Company We Keep
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Publisher : Crown
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9780307588159
ISBN-13 : 0307588157
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Company We Keep by : Robert Baer

Download or read book The Company We Keep written by Robert Baer and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Baer was known inside the CIA as perhaps the best operative working the Middle East. Over several decades he served everywhere from Iraq to New Delhi and racked up such an impressive list of accomplishments that he was eventually awarded the Career Intelligence Medal. But if his career was everything a spy might aspire to, his personal life was a brutal illustration of everything a spy is asked to sacrifice. Bob had few enduring non-work friendships, only contacts and acquaintances. His prolonged absences destroyed his marriage, and he felt intense guilt at spending so little time with his children. Sworn to secrecy and constantly driven by ulterior motives, he was a man apart wherever he went. Dayna Williamson thought of herself as just an ordinary California girl -- admittedly one born into a comfortable lifestyle. But she was always looking to get closer to the edge. When she joined the CIA, she was initially tasked with Agency background checks, but the attractive Berkeley graduate quickly distinguished herself as someone who could thrive in the field, and she was eventually assigned to “Protective Operations” training where she learned to handle weapons and explosives and conduct high-speed escape and evasion. Tapped to serve in some of the world's most dangerous places, she discovered an inner strength and resourcefulness she'd never known -- but she also came to see that the spy life exacts a heavy toll. Her marriage crumbled, her parents grew distant, and she lost touch with friends who'd once meant everything to her. When Bob and Dayna met on a mission in Sarajevo, it wasn't love at first sight. They were both too jaded for that. But there was something there, a spark. And as the danger escalated and their affection for each other grew, they realized it was time to leave “the Company,” to somehow rediscover the people they’d once been. As worldly as both were, the couple didn’t realize at first that turning in their Agency I.D. cards would not be enough to put their covert past behind. The fact was, their clandestine relationships remained. Living as “civilians” in conflict-ridden Beirut, they fielded assassination proposals, met with Arab sheiks, wily oil tycoons, terrorists, and assorted outlaws – and came perilously close to dying. But even then they couldn’t know that their most formidable challenge lay ahead. Simultaneously a trip deep down the intelligence rabbit hole – one that shows how the “game” actually works, including the compromises it asks of those who play by its rules -- and a portrait of two people trying to regain a normal life, The Company We Keep is a masterly depiction of the real world of shadows.