Al Dunlap is an original: an outspoken, irascible executive with an incredible track record of injecting new life into tired companies. The business media have coined a new verb--"to dunlap"--when describing a fast company turnaround. In April 1994 he became CEO and chairman of Scott Paper, which had lost $277 million in 1993, was on credit watch for excessive debt, and whose stock had been comatose for seven years. In a mere nineteen months, Scott had record earnings, the stock had increased in value by $6.5 billion (over 200 percent), and Dunlap merged Scott with Kimberly-Clark in a stock swap that valued Scott at $9 billion and created the second largest consumer-products company in the United States.Mean Business combines Dunlap's colorful personal history--his working-class background, employment, friendship with such people as Sir James Goldsmith and George Soros, his views on why too many executives think of themselves as corporate royalty--and his provocative ideas on management and leadership. His specific, tested program on how to evaluate and choose a management team, get the lowest costs from suppliers, improve the balance sheet, and develop a real strategy make this an invaluable book.The controversy about corporate performance and how to achieve it is near the boiling point, as executives face the hard fact of business life: What is good or even excellent today won't be satisfactory tomorrow. Mean Business is absolutely essential for both companies in trouble as well as those at the top of their game.

Mean Business

Business & Money

Dunlap, Albert J.

Processes & Infrastructure

Random House Value Publishing

Al Dunlap is an outspoken, irascible executive with an incredible track recordof injecting new life into tired companies. In 1994, Dunlap became CEO and chairman of floundering Scott Paper, merged it with Kimberly-Clark, and increased stock value by 163%. Mean Business combines Dunlap's colorful history an his provocative ideas on management and leadership to provide an essential tool for companies in trouble and those at the top of their game. Simultaneous hardcover release from Times Books. 2 cassettes.

Mean Business: How I Save Bad Companies and Make Good Companies Great

Management & Leadership

Random House Audio |

He's been dubbed "Chainsaw Al" and "Rambo in Pinstripes." He has also been hailed by Barrons as "America's premier turnaround artist." Now, Al Dunlap, who transformed the once-ailing Scott Paper into a Wall Street success story, shares his battle-tested strategies for revitalizing sluggish companies in Mean Business. Here is the inside story of Dunlap's quest to make Scott once again a world-class competitor. Along the way, Dunlap provides invaluable, must-read lessons for everyone struggling to meet the tough, competitive challenges of today's business world.

Biography & History

Touchstone

Recounts Leopold's work in erosion control and game management  in the 1930s and traces the influence of his book, A Sand County  Almanac ,on the American environmental movement.

Aldo Leopold: Living With the Land (Earth Keepers)

Children's Books

Biographies

Twenty-First Century Books

Al Dunlap is an original: an outspoken, irascible executive with an incredible track record of injecting new life into tired companies. The business media have coined a new verb--"to dunlap"--when describing a fast company turnaround. In April 1994 he became CEO and chairman of Scott Paper, which had lost $277 million in 1993, was on credit watch for excessive debt, and whose stock had been comatose for seven years. In a mere nineteen months, Scott had record earnings, the stock had increased in value by $6.5 billion (over 200 percent), and Dunlap merged Scott with Kimberly-Clark in a stock swap that valued Scott at $9 billion and created the second largest consumer-products company in the United States. Mean Business combines Dunlap's colorful personal history--his working-class background, employment, friendship with such people as Sir James Goldsmith and George Soros, his views on why too many executives think of themselves as corporate royalty--and his provocative ideas on management and leadership. His specific, tested program on how to evaluate and choose a management team, get the lowest costs from suppliers, improve the balance sheet, and develop a real strategy make this an invaluable book. The controversy about corporate performance and how to achieve it is near the boiling point, as executives face the hard fact of business life: What is good or even excellent today won't be satisfactory tomorrow. Mean Business is absolutely essential for both companies in trouble as well as those at the top of their game.

Andelman, Bob

Mahaney, John (Editor)

Crown Business

Al Dunlap is an original: an outspoken, irascible executive with an incredible track record of injecting new life into tired companies. The business media have coined a new verb--"to dunlap"--when describing a fast company turnaround.

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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Mean Business

Mean Business

Mean Business: How I Save Bad Companies and Make Good Companies Great

Mean Business: How I Save Bad Companies and Make Good Companies Great

Aldo Leopold: Living With the Land (Earth Keepers)

Mean Business: How I Save Bad Companies and Make Good Companies Great

Mean Business: How I Save Bad Companies and Make Good Companies Great