Gerald Ratner兴衰与死而复生Gerald Ratner : The Rise and Fall...and Rise Again
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作者： Gerald Ratner 著
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出版时间： 2007-12-1字数：版次： 1页数： 260印刷时间： 2007/12/01开本： 16开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9781841127866包装： 精装编辑推荐
作者简介：Gerald Ratneris a British householdname. He joined the family business in 1966at the age of 15 and went on to build upthe UK's most successful chain of jewellersof which he was Chairman and ChiefExecutive. In 1992, 18 months after his
infamous speech to the conference at theInstitute of Directors, he was sacked and
in 1994 the Ratner name was eliminatedfrom the company. For four years he worked
on and off as a consultant, before startingup a health club in Henley and eventually
selling it. In 2004, Ratner set up an onlinejewellery business, GeraldOnline, after
market research on brand recognition foundthat Ratners was still the most recognised
name in jewellery retailing. Gerald Ratnerhas come full-circle and is enjoying successsecond time around. He is a married fatherof four and now a fitness fanatic, cyclingaround 30 miles per day.
内容简介
In 1991 Gerald Ratner was booked to make what should have been an everyday speech at the Institute of Directors. Should have been. When the words "total crap" come out of his mouth in connection with a decanter and glasses set sold by his company, H. Samuel, it all turned out slightly different. The Rise and Fall...And Rise Again tells the full story, in Gerald Ratner's own words, of what lead him to that point at the IoD, the horror of what happened in the immediate aftermath,
目录
Introduction
ACT I - THE RISE
CHAPTER 1 Family Life
CHAPTER 2 Growing Up
CHAPTER 3 Toughening Up
CHAPTER 4 The Family Business
CHAPTER 5 Growing the Business
CHAPTER 6 Going Public
CHAPTER 7 The Home Front
CHAPTER 8 Downturn
CHAPTER 9 Taking Over
CHAPTER 10 Turnaround
CHAPTER 11 The Big Time
CHAPTER 12 Trauma
CHAPTER 13 Thatcher's Decade
CHAPTER 14 The Incredible Eighties
CHAPTER 15 Going Global
CHAPTER 16 Riding the Acquisitions Express
ACT II - THE FALL
CHAPTER 17 Welcome to the Nineties
CHAPTER 18 An Invitation
CHAPTER 19 That Speech
CHAPTER 20 As Bad as it Gets
CHAPTER 21 The End
CHAPTER 22 The Wilderness
CHAPTER 23 Out of the Frying Pan
ACT III - THE RISE AGAIN
CHAPTER 24 Starting All Over Again
CHAPTER 25 The Launch
CHAPTER 26 Dotcom Millionaire
CHAPTER 27 Thinking Big
CHAPTER 28 What Goes Around
The Speech
Index
