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[read ebook] Leave Something on the Table: and Other Surprising Lessons for Success inBusiness and in Life DOWNLOAD E.P.U.B.[read ebook] LeaveSomething on theTable: and OtherSurprising Lessonsfor Success inBusiness and in LifeDOWNLOAD E.P.U.B.DescriptionFrank Bennack is executive vice chairman and former CEO of Hearst, a leading global media,information and services company with more than 20,000 employees and 360-plus businesses.During Bennackâ€s tenure as CEO, he directed the company through an unprecedented periodof growth from when he began his first tenure as CEO in 1979 through June 2013 when hestepped down increasing revenues 14 times and growing earnings more than 30 times. He is alsochairman of the companyâ€s Executive Committee, a director of Hearst, and a trustee of theHearst Family Trust. In addition, he sits on a number of corporate committees and the HearstFoundations Boards, where he has served for more than 25 years. Bennack is currently a directorof Ralph Lauren Corporation. He is chairman of Hearst Magazines UK, a wholly owned subsidiaryof Hearst. Bennack is also a governor and former chairman of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital andits Healthcare System, a managing director of the Metropolitan Opera of New York, chairmanemeritus of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and chairman of The Paley Center for Media(formerly The Museum of Television & Radio).Â Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rightsreserved. Prologue Prologue This is a book of stories. I was CEO of Hearst for almost threedecades, so many of those stories are about business. But the point of telling these stories is notto revisit old challenges, brag about long-ago successes, or explain how, on my watch, wetransformed a 1950s magazine and newspaper company into a hundred-year-old start-up.Although Iâ€m in many of these storiesâ€”hey, itâ€s my bookâ€”theyâ€re really about thepeople in my life, and what I learned from them, and what we accomplished together. In many ofthese stories youâ€ll also meet two remarkable and accomplished women. Luella Mae Smith,my high school girlfriend, became my wife for more than fifty years. She died tragically and withoutwarning on April 17, 2003. She is central to the period from 1949 to 2003. Dr. Mary Lake Polan, towhom I was married on April 2, 2005, has supported me and enriched my life on many levels. Shehas been an important force throughout my second tour as CEO of Hearst, as well as during myLincoln Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital chairmanships. Like Luella, she has made thegood times better and the difficult times bearable. If these stories offer some wisdom, itâ€s this:the importance of values in our private lives and work livesâ€”the value of values. You donâ€thear much about values in the business press these days. Mostly you hear about transactions.Thatâ€s inevitable. The deals are bigger now. Thereâ€s more and louder publicityaccompanying them. The claimed benefits generally include a better worldâ€”often a better worldthrough technology. Some of the stories youâ€ll find in these pages describe transactions that
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