Record Nr.

UNINA9910812521803321

Autore

Culver David M. <1924->

Titolo

Expect miracles : recollections of a lucky life / / David M. Culver with Alan Freeman

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Montreal [Quebec] : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Beaconsfield, Quebec : , : Canadian Electronic Library, , 2014

ISBN

0-7735-9072-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Collana

Footprints series ; ; 19

Disciplina

338.274092

Soggetti

Chief executive officers - Québec (Province) - Montréal

Businesspeople - Québec (Province) - Montréal

Success in business - Québec (Province) - Montréal

Success - Québec (Province) - Montréal

Chefs de direction - Québec (Province) - Montréal

Gens d'affaires - Québec (Province) - Montréal

Succès dans les affaires - Québec (Province) - Montréal

Succès - Québec (Province) - Montréal

Montréal (Québec) Biography

Montréal (Québec) Biographies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1 "Be Emergent!" Early Memories of Life on a Hill -- 2 "A Bunch of People Helping One Man Do a Job" Learning to Manage -- 3 "We Were Like the Jesuits" Selling Aluminum to the World -- 4 "Je me souviens" Alcan's Québécois Heart -- 5 "Dimension, Dimension, Dimension" How Architecture Became a Passion -- 6 "An Unobtrusive Jewel" Building a Home for Alcan -- 7 "On Hands and Knees" Developing Ties with Japan and China -- 8 "A Sense of Measure" Multinational Musings -- 9 "Like A Trip to the Kennel" Growing People -- 10 "An Outsider on the Inside" The Trials of the Independent Director -- 11 "Hitting the Right Note" The Meaning of Pastimes -- 12 "Just Another Graduation" Life after Alcan.

Sommario/riassunto

Expect Miracles is the personal and professional story of a leader in the worlds of business and culture. David Culver narrates his journey from his upbringing in Montreal's Golden Square Mile, through his studies at McGill and Harvard, his army service during the Second World War, to his impressive rise at Alcan to become chairman and chief executive officer of one of Canada's leading multinational corporations. The memoir provides an inside look into the management of a global company with roots deeply planted in Quebec and offers pragmatic advice on how to grow talent, foster technology, and handle adversity in a far-flung organization. Anecdotes of meeting the likes of Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger, and Jawaharlal Nehru, reveal the experiences of a strong corporate leader who continued to live a Montreal life, while never losing his interest in discovering the world. A man of many interests and talents, Culver reflects on his long love affair with architecture - and his efforts to restore and preserve Montreal's heritage by creating Maison Alcan - and how music and sport helped shape his life. Expect Miracles is evidence of Culver's positive outlook and belief that the most extraordinary things can happen when you least expect them.