Book Description
The head of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics organizing committee describes how he assumed the leadership of the troubled organization and turned it around to present one of the most successful Olympic Games ever.
Author : Mitt Romney
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1596982128
The head of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics organizing committee describes how he assumed the leadership of the troubled organization and turned it around to present one of the most successful Olympic Games ever.
Author : Larry R. Gerlach
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 18,92 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN :
Prior to the 2002 Winter Olympic Games held in Salt Lake City, Utah, ten highly regarded Olympic historians presented a series of lectures on the politics, history, and controversies surrounding the winter games. Those lectures are collected in The Winter Olympics, offering readers fascinating insights into issues of gender, amateurism, commercialism, ceremony, and more over the one hundred years of Winter Olympics history. It also includes a survey of the Salt Lake Winter Games. The only volume available that explores the winter games as a whole, The Winter Olympics is invaluable reading for understanding the movements' roots as well as the contemporary issues surrounding the Games.
Author : Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic Winter Games of 2002
Publisher : Sloc
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,87 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Athletes
ISBN : 9780971796102
Captures the magic and beauty of the Olympic Games.
Author : Holger Preuss
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,59 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781008690
"This book arises from the need to analyse, in detail, the various economic aspects that the Olympic Games mean for host cities. Since 1984 increasingly more cities in the world have announced their interest in staging the Olympic Games, making it a festival with significant economic dimensions. What followed have been economic triumphs and tragedies, glories and fiascos - all are included in the 36 years of Olympic history reviewed in this book." - foreword.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 22,12 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN :
Author : Lorna Schultz Nicholson
Publisher : Lorimer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,42 MB
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781552774731
The 2002 Winter Olympics were hosted by Salt Lake City, Utah. Just four years previous, Women's Hockey had become an official Olympics sport, at Nagano, Japan. There, the Canadian team had been favoured to win the gold. They were the World Championship winners, after all. Yet in a disappointing final game, Team Canada lost to the USA and ended up with a silver. Now, heading into the 2002 winter Games, they're on a losing streak. What would it take for our women to bring home the gold? [Fry Reading Level - 3.1
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 31,32 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN :
Author : Matthew Burbank
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 25,98 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781555879914
What drives cities to pursue large-scale events like the Olympic games? Investigating local politics in three U.S. cities-Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Salt Lake City-as they vied for the role of Olympic host, this book provides a narrative of the evolving political economy of modern megaevents.
Author : Mike Leavitt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 37,27 MB
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1118282477
From Governor and White House cabinet member Mike Leavitt: how to find collaborative solutions to the greatest challenges Your business challenges extend far beyond you and your firm, to the competitors within your industry and the regulators outside it. Finding solutions to larger issues requires cooperation between diverse stakeholders, and in this rapidly changing world, only those able to adapt and network successfully will produce fast, competitive solutions. How can leaders successfully bridge divides and turn competitors into collaborators? Leavitt and McKeown explain how a well-chosen network can become a powerful alliance. Whether you're launching a new partnership, or rehabilitating one already in progress, Finding Allies, Building Alliances will help you find workable solutions to the most complex problems. Written by Mike Leavitt, former Governor of Utah who brought the 2002 Winter Olympics to Salt Lake City, former US Secretary of Health and human services, and former head of the EPA; with his former Chief of Staff and business partner Rich McKeown, co-founder of Leavitt Partners Includes a framework of 8 elements that will help any leader foster and maintain an effective, productive collaborative venture Shows how better collaboration can not only solve problems, but boost the competitiveness and resilience in all sectors Finding Allies, Building Alliances is essential reading for any business leader looking for transformative solutions and a sustainable future.
Author : Tom Caraccioli
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1596700785
The story of America's forgotten hockey team and its members, which included players who were plucked from the jungles of Vietnam, schoolboy heroes, and college All-Americans...Jacket cover.