Expect Miracles
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Expect Miracles

Recollections of a Lucky Life

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Expect Miracles

Recollections of a Lucky Life

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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.

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Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780773590731
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Business Biographies
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Footprints Series
  4. Copyright
  5. Preface
  6. 1 - “Be Emergent!” Early Memories of Life on a Hill
  7. 2 - “A Bunch of People Helping One Man Do a Job” Learning to Manage
  8. 3 - “We Were Like the Jesuits” Selling Aluminum to the World
  9. 4 - “Je me souviens” Alcan’s QuĂ©bĂ©cois Heart
  10. 5 - “Dimension, Dimension, Dimension” How Architecture Became a Passion
  11. 6 - “An Unobtrusive Jewel” Building a Home for Alcan
  12. 7 - “On Hands and Knees” Developing Ties with Japan and China
  13. 8 - “A Sense of Measure” Multinational Musings
  14. 9 - “Like A Trip to the Kennel” Growing People
  15. 10 - “An Outsider on the Inside” The Trials of the Independent Director
  16. 11 - “Hitting the Right Note” The Meaning of Pastimes
  17. 12 - “Just Another Graduation” Life after Alcan