
Inside the Minds provides readers with proven business intelligence from C-Level executives (Chairman, CEO, CFO, CMO, Partner) from the worldâs most respected companies nationwide, rather than third-party accounts from unknown authors and analysts. Each chapter is comparable to an essay/thought leadership piece and is a future-oriented look at where an industry, profession or topic is headed and the most important issues for the future. Through an exhaustive selection process, each author was hand-picked by the Inside the Minds editorial board to author a chapter for this book. Chapters Include: Clifford E. Montgomery, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, National Starch and Chemical Company â âIt All Begins with Peopleâ; Larry McClure, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Liz Claiborne, Inc. â âAchieving Business Successâ; Toni Porterfield, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, The Main Street America Group â âTaking Root in the Business End of Operationsâ; Kathy Mazzarella, Vice President, Human Resources and Strategic Planning, Graybar Electric Company, Inc. â âStrategies of a Successful HR Leaderâ; Jerrold A. Glass, Senior Vice President, Employee Relations, US Airways â âFocusing on Internal Resourcesâ; Robert E. Croner, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Radian Group, Inc. â âThe Horsepower of Creativityâ; Michael J. Krahe, Executive Vice President, Human Development and Leadership, Erie Insurance Group â âUnderstanding the Businessâ; Kevin A. Barr, Vice President, Human Resources, Terex Corporation â âGetting to Know All Aspects of a Companyâ; Timothy R. Manning, Vice President, Human Resources, NSTAR Electric & Gas Corp. â âManaging in a Unionized Environmentâ; William McLean, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Avera McKennan â âLeadership That Adds Valueâ; Maryanne DiMarzo, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Avaya â âWriting Human Softwareâ; Daniel S. Bowling III, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. â âDelivering Tangible Resultsâ; Anne-Marie Matosky Szmyt, Director, WorkLife Strategies, Baystate Health System â âAccounting for Individuals and the Organizationâ; Stephen D. Isenhower, Vice President, Human Resources, Sisters of Mercy Health System â âTreating the Organization as the Customerâ; Phyllis A. Domm, Vice President, Human Resources, Intermountain Health Care â âThe Art of Change Leadership.â
Human Capital Management: Human Resources Executives from Coca-Cola, Liz Claiborne, Avaya, and More on Strategies for Success (Inside the Minds)
The Story of Santa Claus – The Secret Myths and Legends
Between Marx and Coca-Cola: Youth Cultures in Changing European Societies, 1960-1980

In the 1960s and 1970s, Western Europe’s “Golden Age,” a new youth consciousness emerged which gave this period its distinctive character. Offering rich, new material, this volume challenges and moves beyond the easy conflation of European youth culture and “Americanization.” It instead sets out to show, for the first time, how international developments fused with national traditions to produce specific youth cultures that then became the leading trendsetters of emergent postindustrial Western societies. This important new study presents a multifaceted portrait of European youth cultures, colored by differences in gender, class, and education, and explores the tension between emerging consumerism and growing politicization, succinctly expressed by Jean-Luc Godard in his 1965 pairing of “Marx and Coca-Cola.”
Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola and its logo are everywhere. In our homes, our workplaces, and even our schools. It is a company that sponsors the Olympics, backs US presidents and even re-brands Santa Claus. A truly universal product, it has even been served in space. From Istanbul to Mexico City, Mark travels the globe investigating the stories and people Coca-Cola’s iconic advertising campaigns don’t mention such as: child labourers in the sugar cane fields of El Salvador; Indian workers exposed to toxic chemicals; Colombian union leaders falsely accused of terrorism and jailed alongside the paramilitaries who want to kill them; and, many more. Provocative, funny and stirring, “Belching Out the Devil” investigates the truth behind one of the planet’s biggest brands.
Belching Out the Devil
Coke Machine Glow
Always Coca-Cola

The story of three different young women marks the literary debut of an amazing writer from Lebanon
Always Coca-Cola is the story of three very different young women attending university in Beirut: Abeer, Jana, and Yasmine. The narrator, Abeer Ward (fragrant rose, in Arabic), daughter of a conservative family, admits wryly that her name is also the name of her father s flower shop. Abeer s bedroom window is filled by a view of a Coca-Cola sign featuring the image of her sexually adventurous friend, Jana. From the novel s opening paragraph When my mother was pregnant with me, she had only one craving. That craving was for Coca Cola first-time novelist Alexandra Chreiteh asks us to see, with wonder, humor, and dismay, how inextricably confused naming and desire, identity and branding. The names and the novel s edgy, cynical humor might be recognizable across languages, cultures, and geographies. But Chreiteh s novel is first and foremost an exploration of a specific Lebanese milieu. Critics in Lebanon have responded in a storm, calling the novel an electric shock and finding that the problems of its characters reflect grave social anomalies. Read Chreiteh and see what the storm is all about.






