Not Invented Here
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ISBN:
0-7414-0728-0
©2001
Price:
$20.95
Book Size:
5.5'' x 8.5''
, 462 pages
Category/Subject:
FICTION / Historical
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Abstract:
This is a work of fiction-based-on-fact. The author draws on his fifty plus years of experience in many aerospace companies. NIH tells the stories of the early history that has now been integrated into the two and a half aerospace giants listed on Wall Street.
This book is filled with political, technical, financial and management insights. The related episodes of romance bring realism to the main characters life experiences.
The lead character, Ben, and the rest of his “team”, are real, down-to-earth men, complete with family problems, a real-life lifestyle, and problems in the workplace. After completing his WWII duty as a Naval Aviator, Ben begins his aerospace industrial career. When the Moon Mission is ordained by President Kennedy, he becomes a major contributor to his company being awarded the program. He and his “team” work to streamline the management of divisions of a large aerospace corporation and together, they come up with many innovative projects for military aircraft, missiles, commercial air transports and management techniques.
Along with being a great read, these stories will give much insight to present day entrepreneurs and managers as to ways they can improve their own techniques.
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Customer Reviews
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03/26/2007
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Reviewer:
James Biever
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Although NIH is awork of fact-based fiction, the release of President John F.Kennady's audiotapes has revealed interesting coincidences between the book's chapter on the Apollo (Moon Mission in NIH) program and fact. Other chapters concern international aircraft and missile sales arenas, while other vignettes impart insight into the complex forces that played out from WWII to the introduction of jet aircraft for air transport.
In NIH Shapiro untagles why things happened, while enlivening and transferring knowledge, so that these lessons learned can be aplied by the reader to current cicumstances. For example, out of a field of over 20 aircraft companies after WWII, why are there now only two and a half?
Shapiro reveals a lifelong interest in aircraft and was one of the nations yougest pilots. During WWII he became a naval aviator before entering the aircraft industry as a liasion enginer. NIH describes his rapid rise in the then bugeoning high-tech industry to management positions, where he learned the art of creating, structuring, and pitching forward cognitive programs to senior management.
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