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Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin

By: Pamela Walker LAIRD

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Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin

By: Pamela Walker LAIRD

Redefining the way we view business success, Pamela Laird demolishes the popular American self-made story as she exposes the social dynamics that navigate some people toward opportunity and steer others away. Who gets invited into the networks of business opportunity? What does an unacceptable candidate lack? The answer is social capital--all those social assets that attract respect, generate confidence, evoke affection, and invite loyalty. In retelling success stories from Benjamin Franklin to Andrew Carnegie to Bill Gates, Laird goes beyond personality, upbringing, and social skills to reveal the critical common key--access to circles that control and distribute opportunity and information. She explains how civil rights activism and feminism in the 1960s and 1970s helped demonstrate that personnel practices violated principles of equal opportunity. She evaluates what social privilege actually contributes to business success, and analyzes the balance between individual characteristics--effort, innovation, talent--and social factors such as race, gender, class, and connections. In contrasting how Americans have prospered--or not--with how we have talked about prospering, Laird offers rich insights into how business really operates and where its workings fit within American culture. From new perspectives on entrepreneurial achievement to the role of affirmative action and the operation of modern corporate personnel systems, Pull shows that business is a profoundly social process, and that no one can succeed alone.

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Harvard University Press

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0674039874

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9780674039872

Advertising Progress

American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing

By: Pamela Walker Laird

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Advertising Progress

American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing

By: Pamela Walker Laird

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Originally published in 1998. Drawing on both documentary and pictorial evidence, Pamela Walker Laird explores the modernization of American advertising to 1920. She links its rise and transformation to changes that affected American society and business alike, including the rise of professional specialization and the communications revolution that new technologies made possible. Laird finds a fundamental shift in the kinds of people who created advertisements and their relationships to the firms that advertised. Advertising evolved from the work of informing customers (telling people what manufacturers had to sell) to creating consumers (persuading people that they needed to buy). Through this story, Laird shows how and why—in the intense competitions for both markets and cultural authority—the creators of advertisements laid claim to "progress" and used it to legitimate their places in American business and culture.

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584

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JHU Press

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1421434180

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9781421434186

The Complete Guide to Bed and Breakfasts, Inns and Guesthouses

In the United States, Canada, and Worldwide

By: Pamela Lanier

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The Complete Guide to Bed and Breakfasts, Inns and Guesthouses

In the United States, Canada, and Worldwide

By: Pamela Lanier

Now in its 24th year, this B&B connoisseurs favorite presents the great boutique accommodations of the world. From upscale guesthouses to country inns, each establishment has been hand selected for its special touches and exceptional features, making this a guide that no traveler should be without.

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914

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1580088465

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9781580088466

What Inspirational Literature Do I Read Next?

By: Pamela Willwerth Aue,Henry L. Carrigan (Jr)

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What Inspirational Literature Do I Read Next?

By: Pamela Willwerth Aue,Henry L. Carrigan (Jr)

Religiously-inspired novels, inspirational writings and biographical works on people who are models for spiritual growth are among the recommendations found in this reference.

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Gale Research International, Limited

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0787639427

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9780787639426

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