Glenn Rifkin
Contributor and Author, Future Forward at The New York Times
Contributing Editor at Korn Ferry
Writer and Editor at Freelance
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3 days ago |
kornferry.com | Glenn Rifkin
By Glenn Rifkin The Former president and Civil War hero Ulysses S. Grant had just completed his memoir, days before his death in 1885, but didn't have a publisher. As it turned out, his friend and editor, Mark Twain, had a plan. Instead of accepting a publisher's small royalty, the famed author and raconteur promoted the book by fanning out 10,000 former Union soldiers to go door-to-door. The upshot: The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant became the first mega-selling presidential autobiography.
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2 weeks ago |
kornferry.com | Glenn Rifkin
By Glenn Rifkin When Henry Ford started his automotive company in 1903, he partnered with a pair of fiery, bar-brawling brothers named John and Horace Dodge. The two machinists became integral to turning Ford into an industry magnate. They even attended his son's wedding in 1916. The day after the ceremony, though, the Dodge brothers filed a lawsuit against Ford Motor Company.
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kornferry.com | Glenn Rifkin
By: Glenn Rifkin In 1978, the Buffalo Braves of the National Basketball Association departed from western New York and landed in San Diego, where they became the Clippers. A sports franchise relocating is not unusual. But this move, which jilted the fans in Buffalo, was the culmination of a bizarre franchise swap, the only one of its kind in the history of US professional sports.
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3 weeks ago |
kornferry.com | Glenn Rifkin
By: Glenn Rifkin In late 2000, Jeffrey Skilling, president of Enron Corporation, told this reporter that the high-flying Houston-based energy giant was growing so fast that "there is a very reasonable chance that we will become the largest corporation in the world."Skilling seemed to have reason to be bullish.
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4 weeks ago |
kornferry.com | Glenn Rifkin
By: Glenn Rifkin When Björn Borg, the legendary tennis star, retired in 1983, he shocked the world. Borg was just 26 years old, and one of the greatest to ever play his sport.
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