The remarkable story behind the revolutionary miracle cure for cancer, Gleevec. Novartis chairman Dr Dan Vasella describes its development and how he and Novartis orchestrated the break–neck approval and massive production of this amazing drug.
 Pharmaceutical giant Novartis recently developed Gleevec, one of the first 'smart' drugs created to kill cancer cells without damaging healthy cells in the process. In early tests with a common form of leukemia and other types of cancer, Gleevec has been extraordinarily successful, and side effects have been astoundingly minimal. Gleevec communicates directly with cancer–causing chromosomes and interrupts the signal that causes excessive growth of certain white blood cells. Patients have seen their tumours shrink significantly, and some have disappeared altogether.
 This is the inside story of the creation of this miracle drug, and how Novartis CEO and chairman Dan Vasella rallied the company to bring Gleevec to market in mass quantities and record time.

Magic Cancer Bullet: How a Tiny Orange Pill May Rewrite Medical History

Business & Money

Robert Slater

Daniel Vasella

Biography & History

Harper Business

The Eye of the Storm: How John Chambers Steered Cisco Through the Technology Collapse

HarperBusiness

Behind the scenes with the legendary CEO 
 Jack Welch’s innovative leadership strategies revived a lagging GE, transforming it into a powerhouse with a staggering $300 billion-plus market capitalization. In writing Jack Welch and the GE Way, author Robert Slater was given unprecedented access to Welch and other prominent GE insiders. What emerged is a brilliant portrait that tells you what makes Jack Welch tick. Learn how to work the Welch magic on your own company as you find out how he dismantled the boundaries between management layers, between engineers and marketers, between GE and its customers to streamline the process of getting products and services to market. 
 Get details on Welch’s far-reaching Six Sigma quality initiative, and discover how its principles and standards can save billions of dollars...how and why he has made GE a truly global company (and why you must think global as well)...and all the other Welch "midas touch" strategies you can put to work in your organization, at every level!

Jack Welch & The G.E. Way: Management Insights and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary CEO

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

McGraw=Hill

"If management is an art, then surely Jack Welch has proved himself a master painter." - BusinessWeek Boardroom legend Jack Welch is widely regarded as one of the most effective CEOs in business history. Welch's groundbreaking programs--including Six Sigma and Work-Out--along with his numerous strategies on business leadership have helped transform GE into the global benchmark for maximized productivity and labor efficiency. Now, The GE Way Fieldbook explains how you can implement the same programs that helped turn GE into a $100 billion juggernaut. Drawing from his unprecedented access to GE's top-level corridors of power--including a never-before-published full-length interview with Jack Welch--veteran business author Robert Slater packs innovative strategies, easy-to-use diagnostic exercises, detailed questionnaires, and more into the most hands-on, applications-oriented book ever written on General Electric. Only in The GE Way Fieldbook will you find: <ul> <li>"The Boca Raton Speeches"--Never-before-seen excerpts taken from Jack Welch's internal speeches to GE employees</li> <li>More than 100 exercises, overheads, and exhibits from the files of Jack Welch and GE</li> <li>The most complete treatment of GE's Six Sigma program ever published</li> <li>Step-by-step action plans that are blueprints for implementing Six Sigma and Work-Out--and creating the boundaryless organization</li> </ul> The fieldbook has become one of today's most popular, effective teaching tools--but never before has one focused on the inner workings and strategies of a specific company. The GE Way Fieldbook gives you an inside look at the stunningly successful Jack Welch era at GE, provides the techniques and tools you need to focus every worker in your organization on progress and growth, and outlines a strategic roadmap for implementing GE's business practices--and removing the boundaries to success--within your own organization.

The Ge Way Fieldbook: Jack Welch's Battle Plan for Corporate Revolution

Management & Leadership

29 Leadership Secrets From Jack Welch

McGraw–Hill Education

Ageing has traditionally been seen as ubiquitous decline - all 'doom and gloom'. The Psychology of Growing Old challenges this view and shows how our own attitudes and values may serve to perpetuate it. The book uses the research literature of gerontology - the multidisciplinary study of ageing and later life - to involve the reader in considering his or her own future and that of others. It examines the potential that ageing and later life have to be a rewarding experience - something to look forward to - rather than something to be denied and rejected. Unlike other books in the area, The Psychology of Growing Old places the reader centre stage as someone who can influence the future of ageing. It will be of interest to a wide range of professionals in health and social services who work with older people; and relevant to many student courses with ageing as a focus, whether in psychology, sociology, nursing, gerontology, social work or the medical professions.

The Psychology Of Growing Old: Looking Forward (Rethinking Ageing Series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Open University Press

Jack Welch and the Ge Way: Management Insights and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary Ceo

29 Leadership Secrets from Jack Welch

The first concise book of essential Welch-isms, abridged from the bestselling Get Better or Get Beaten  Jack Welch built a career out of fighting waste. 29 Leadership Secrets from Jack Welch follows in Welch's footsteps, boiling the legendary CEO's leadership successes down to 29 strategies that made GE the world's most competitive company­­and Welch the world's most successful and admired CEO.  This all-in-one Welch reference updates material from Robert Slater's bestselling Get Better or Get Beaten, and is today's ultimate fast-paced, no-nonsense handbook on the ways of Jack Welch. It taps into the heart of Welch's courage, innovation, and leadership success by examining simple leadership secrets that include:  Managing less is managing better  Make quality the job of every employee  Have global brains and vision

Bt Bound

This 2015 edition includes profiles of more than one hundred Jewish women who have had a great impact in their respective fields of endeavor, including Golda Meir, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Barbra Streisand, and U.S. senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein. Their unusual achievements are interestingly presented and their relationships to Judaism highlighted. With black-and-white photographs.

Great Jewish Women

Elinor Slater

Community & Culture

Jonathan David Publishers

Profiles of over 150 Jewish men of distinction drawn from a wide range of professions. This esteemed group of personalities includes such luminaries as Abraham and Moses, forgers of the Jewish nation; Rashi and Maimonides, great interpreters of Jewish law; Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern, gifted songwriters; as well as many distinguished contemporary figures. With black-and-white photographs.

Great Jewish Men

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