December 28, 2007

More Kudos For Michael Gates Gill

In the Wall Street Journal's Best Books of 2007, deputy books editor Mark Lasswell calls out Michael Gates Gill's How Starbucks Saved My Life saying:

At 63, Michael Gates Gill, father of five, found himself out of work, divorced, and nearly broke--not quite what he expected when he was growing up on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the son of New Yorker writer Brendan Gill. But then Mr. Gill found a life raft in the form of an unlikely job, as he relates in the memoir How Starbucks Saved My Life.

Lasswell also mentions My Secret Life on the McJob: Lessons from Behind the Counter Guaranteed to Supersize Any Management Style by college professor Jerry Newman. I missed this one initially and am going to go back to check it out. The premise reminds me of Alex Frankel's Punching Out, which came out last month.

Posted by Todd S. at December 28, 2007 9:54 AM
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I'm a bit of a junkie for books that mix business with self-development. Just finished "The Go-Giver" by Bob Burg, which has a wonderfully transformational theme similar to "Who Moved My Cheese?"

I'm going to pick up How Starbucks Saved My Life...it sounds like the perfect next-read!

Posted by: Barb at December 30, 2007 11:08 PM
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