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"Reads like a novel, yet serves as a how-to guide for creating a customer culture and marketing strategies that wow Wall Street...I recommend this book as priority reading for all retail executives." Kurt Barnard, President, Barnard Retail Trend Report and Barnard's Retail Consulting Group. Admirers, competitors, industry and Wall Street analysts alike are intrigued with the question of what makes Home Depot so special. What, exactly, does this giant do that so clearly distinguishes it from the competition? How does Home Depot culture and customer service work? And, most importantly, what lessons can every business learn from the Home Depot example? INSIDE HOME DEPOT takes you behind the scenes to discover the secrets of success of this retail giant how, in just twenty years, Home Depot has not only changed the way hardware is sold, Home Depot has also elevated the superstore concept to a new level of success, inspiring both admiration and fear in the retail community. Relying on inside access to Home Depot's training programs, interviews with key employees both past and present, and meticulous investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize nominated journalist Chris Roush presents the first uncensored book about how this company has become so successful, and isolates the practical lessons that readers can apply to any industry.

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Bottom (and top) line: To turn Home Depot around, Frank Blake restoked employee morale, zeroed in customer needs, and focused on the core business. Best of all, he wasn’t Bob Nardelli. What can you learn from Blake’s story? Sell the project, not the product. Jump without a (golden) parachute. And never hold yourself above your people.   At Home Depot, the days of caviar and roses are past. The CEO with the huge salary and outsized ego is gone. The world’s largest home-improvement retail chain has slowed its once-relentless pace of expansion almost to a halt. It has sold its 34 Expo Design Centers, 14 specialty stores, and other grandiose, empire-building acquisitions. What remains is a company with roughly 350,000 employees, 2,238 stores around the world, and sales of more than $71 billion annually. After two years on the job, Home Depot’s unlikely savior is still almost anonymous enough to pose as a shopper when he visits his stores. The story of how Frank Blake and his colleagues turned the company around is a tale with lessons for us all. It’s as if Blake had stopped an explosion in mid-blast and turned it around, nestling all the fragments gently back into place.   New Word City, publishers of digital originals, contributes 10 percent of its profits to literacy causes.

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Tansy has to escape from her London life. She's desperate to get away from her media job, her coke habit, her dead mother and her selfish boyfriend. But she finds travelling through Asia more smelly than romantic and, besides, she's missing her boyfriend. However, she is determined not to give in, give up or go home. As she travels further east she begins to enjoy her journey - until murder starts to follow her and the trip becomes much more adventurous than she had anticipated.

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This is the first collection to appear in twenty years from one of America's best short story writers. His thirteen stories are marvelous -- funny, heartbreaking, and wise by turns, and on occasion all three at once. Praise for Max Apple: "Apple may not be as well known a humorist as Russell Baker, Calvin Trillin, or Garrison Keillor. But he should be. He belongs in the same crowd." -- Newsday, reviewing Free Agents "Apple is an amiable, good-hearted, sweet-tempered writer whose short pieces occupy an agreeable territory somewhere between fact and fiction." -- Washington Post Book World, reviewing Free Agents "A tender, tough, and totally compelling account." -- USA Today, reviewing Roommates "The slim, sweet slices of this particular Apple pie are always served warm and contain generous amounts of humor, off-the-wall inventiveness, and down-to-earth intelligence." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer, reviewing Free Agents

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The Albany Depot by William Dean Howells.