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Memoir of a Railroader (Railroads Past and Present)
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Named one of the "75 People You Should Know" by Trains Magazine, Jim McClellan was a railroading legend and one of the railroad industry’s titans. An iconic and innovative executive, McClellan participated in the creation of both Amtrak and Conrail and worked for the Norfolk Southern, the New York Central, US Railway Association, and the Federal Railroad Administration. My Life with Trains combines a world-class photographer’s love of railroading with the insights of a government and railroad official. The book provides a short historical overview of the changes in the industry, recounts McClellan’s experience at various railroads, and offers personal reflections on a lifetime of working with and chasing trains. My Life with Trains covers 60 years as observed by a legendary railroad strategist.
The book is published by Indiana University Press. The audiobook will be published by University Press Audiobooks.
“If you are interested in railroad economics and leadership issues, this book should be in your library. (Railway Age)
“This book is an excellent listen and a valuable research tool.” (Tom Hoback, retired Founder and CEO, Indiana Rail Road)
“McClellan has left us a vivid memoir of a railroad life well lived.” (Classic Trains)
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- De Roy en 04-19-10
De: Paul Ingrassia
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Faster, Higher, Farther
- The Volkswagen Scandal
- De: Jack Ewing
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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A shocking exposé of Volkswagen's fraud by the New York Times reporter who covered the scandal. In mid-2015 Volkswagen proudly reached its goal of surpassing Toyota as the world's largest automaker. A few months later, the EPA disclosed that Volkswagen had installed software in 11 million cars that deceived emissions-testing mechanisms. By early 2017 VW had settled with American regulators and car owners for $20 billion, with additional lawsuits still looming.
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Excellent recap of VW, its structure and culture
- De Northern IN Mark en 05-27-17
De: Jack Ewing
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American Icon
- Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company
- De: Bryce G. Hoffman
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 14 h y 45 m
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At the end of 2008, Ford Motor Company was just months away from running out of cash. With the auto industry careening toward ruin, Congress offered all three Detroit automakers a bailout. General Motors and Chrysler grabbed the taxpayer lifeline, but Ford decided to save itself. Under the leadership of charismatic CEO Alan Mulally, Ford had already put together a bold plan to unify its divided global operations, transform its lackluster product lineup, and overcome a dysfunctional culture of infighting, backstabbing, and excuses.
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The best business book I ever read
- De Michael en 10-07-12
De: Bryce G. Hoffman
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The Art of Business Wars
- Battle-Tested Lessons for Leaders and Entrepreneurs from History's Greatest Rivalries
- De: David Brown
- Narrado por: David Brown
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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Based on the chart-topping Business Wars podcast, stories, and lessons from history’s greatest business rivalries, interspersed with audio clips from the podcast. Using Chinese military genius Sun Tzu’s strategies as a guide, Brown examines why some companies triumph while others crumble....
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Just a repeat of the pod cast…..
- De Vm2008 en 02-01-22
De: David Brown
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Autonomy
- The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—and How It Will Reshape Our World
- De: Lawrence D. Burns, Christopher Shulgan
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
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In Autonomy, former GM executive and current advisor to the Google Self-Driving Car project Lawrence Burns offers a sweeping history of the race to make the driverless car a reality. In the past decade, Silicon Valley companies like Google, Tesla and Uber have positioned themselves to revolutionize the way we move around by developing driverless vehicles while traditional auto companies like General Motors, Ford, and Daimler have been fighting back by partnering by with new tech start-ups.
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Easy listen, non-technical perspective
- De James S. en 09-14-18
De: Lawrence D. Burns, y otros
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Sun, Sin, Suburbia
- The History of Modern Las Vegas Revised and Expanded
- De: Geoff Schumacher
- Narrado por: Douglas R. Pratt
- Duración: 11 h y 20 m
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Las Vegas is gambling's mecca - Sin City the Entertainment Capital of the World with 40 million visitors a year. But that's just part of the story. This carefully documented history tracks the rise of Las Vegas from its vital role in World War II, of the Rat Pack era of the 50s, the explosive growth of the 90s, and it's colossal collapse in the post 2008 real-estate crash. It offers a history of the iconic Strip, but also profiles the neighborhoods where over 2 million people live.
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Good History of Vegas - old, modern and mundane
- De Amazon Customer en 06-13-14
De: Geoff Schumacher
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Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?
- Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround
- De: Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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In 1990, IBM had its most profitable year ever. By 1993, the company was on a watch list for extinction, victimized by its own lumbering size, an insular corporate culture, and the PC era IBM had itself helped invent.
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Moderate Start, Picks up FAST!
- De Art H en 02-08-05
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Getting Green Done
- Hard Truths From the Frontlines of Sustainability Revolution
- De: Auden Schendler
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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Soccer moms drive Priuses. Sport utility vehicles are going hybrid. Families are using hemp shopping bags. More and more companies are developing "green" buildings. What's more, the business consultants say going green is easy and profitable. In reality, though, many green-leaning businesses, families, and governments are still fiddling with the small stuff while the planet burns. Why?
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Green's Dirty Little Secrets
- De Martin en 07-10-09
De: Auden Schendler
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Dealing with China
- An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower
- De: Henry M. Paulson
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 18 h y 31 m
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When Hu Jintao, China's then vice president, came to visit the New York Stock Exchange and Ground Zero in 2002, he asked Hank Paulson to be his guide. It was a testament to the pivotal role that Goldman Sachs played in helping China experiment with private enterprise. In Dealing with China, the best-selling author of On the Brink draws on his unprecedented access to both the political and business leaders of modern China to answer several key questions.
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A Valuable Book on China
- De Michael Moore en 09-04-15
De: Henry M. Paulson
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Play Nice but Win
- A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader
- De: Michael Dell, James Kaplan
- Narrado por: Michael Dell
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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In 1984, soon-to-be college dropout Michael Dell hid signs of his fledgling PC business in the bathroom of his University of Texas dorm room. Almost 30 years later, at the pinnacle of his success as founder and leader of Dell Technologies, he found himself embroiled in a battle for his company’s survival. What he’d do next could ensure its legacy — or destroy it completely.
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Not perfect, but worth a listen
- De James S. en 11-09-21
De: Michael Dell, y otros
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Overhaul
- An Insider's Account of the Obama Administration's Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry
- De: Steven Rattner
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
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This first real look inside Team Obama mixes political warfare and big-business shakeups in equal proportions, and comes from a uniquely informed source. Steve Rattner is not just the man brought in by the president to save the auto industry, he is a former New York Times financial reporter who also earned a place among the top tier of Wall Street's most informed investment bankers and corporate experts.
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Overhaul - A Memoir
- De Roy en 12-05-10
De: Steven Rattner
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The Yugo
- The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History
- De: Jason Vuic
- Narrado por: Erik Synnestvedt
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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Six months after its American introduction in 1985, the Yugo was a punch line; within a year, it was a staple of late-night comedy. By 2000, NPR's Car Talk declared it "the worst car of the millennium." And for most Americans that's where the story begins and ends. Hardly. The short, unhappy life of the car, the men who built it, the men who imported it, and the decade that embraced and discarded it is rollicking and astounding, and it is one of the greatest untold business-cum-morality tales of the 1980s.
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Better Than The Car!
- De Chris Reich en 08-25-10
De: Jason Vuic
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Good to Great
- Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
- De: Jim Collins
- Narrado por: Jim Collins
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
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Built To Last, the defining management study of the 90s, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about companies that are not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?
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Good info, over-the-top narration
- De Anaxamaxan en 08-31-10
De: Jim Collins
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Fulfillment
- Winning and Losing in One-Click America
- De: Alec MacGillis
- Narrado por: Danny Gavigan
- Duración: 12 h y 22 m
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Alec MacGillis’ Fulfillment is not another inside account or exposé of our most conspicuously dominant company. Rather, it is a literary investigation of the America that falls within that company’s growing shadow. As MacGillis shows, Amazon’s sprawling network of delivery hubs, data centers, and corporate campuses epitomizes a land where winner and loser cities and regions are drifting steadily apart, the civic fabric is unraveling, and work has become increasingly rudimentary and isolated.
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Missing some important angles
- De D. Zimmerle en 08-19-21
De: Alec MacGillis
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- Factswriter
- 01-22-20
If you were into trains
A wonderful history of the railroad industry, and beautifully performed by Shane Browning. A good listen.
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- 01-15-20
Great reader
Good voice, good pacing, easy to listen to. I will look for him in other books.
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- Carrie Walker
- 01-12-20
Interesting & Enjoyable
While the content of this book wasn't what I was expecting at all, the reader, Shane Browning made it interesting.
I was looking for interesting personal stories. This book is more about the business & impersonal end of railroading. Had I read the book, it would have lost me immediately. Hearing it by the reader actually held my attention & I feel more informed as I listen to the end.
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- Stephen Fowler
- 05-31-22
Storylines are good, performance and recording not so much.
It is entertaining to hear railroad workings from the inside out, and the drama and intrigue that has gone on in those stodgy enterprises. This book is less about railroad trains than it is about the corporate goings-on from a lifetime insider. Many episodes were relatable as my uncle was one of the main planners of the NP/GN/CB&Q/SP&S merger into BN. Interesting stuff.
The reading and audio were forgettable. The reader dozes his way through the narrative void of excitement or emotion. The overdubs for edits are hugely distracting. It’s just a real poor effort that should really be redone to give some life to the accounts.
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- Carla Rodzaj
- 02-09-20
Interesting Insider View of Our Railroad History
So little seems to be known about how and why the railroad industry has changed so much over the past century, especially from an insider's point of view. McClellan lets us peer into what has changed and why. This is also a pleasant audiobook to listen to--clean, crisp, varied bass-baritone narration.
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