It's Not About the Coffee: Leadership Principles from a Life at Starbucks - Hardcover

Behar, Howard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1591841925 ISBN 13: 9781591841920

Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover, 2007

Synopsis

A Starbucks executive reveals how to draw on the successful coffee-house chain's examples in order to promote business success, sharing inside stories about key turning points in Starbucks' history to illustrate how the company came to embrace its philosophy about putting people ahead of profits.

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About the Author:

Howard Behar joined Starbucks as a senior executive in 1989, when it had just twenty-eight stores. His positions have included executive vice president of sales and operations, president of Starbucks International, and president of Starbucks North America. He has also served on the companyÂ’s board of directors since 1996. He lives in Seattle with his wife, Lynn. Behar is donating his proceeds from this book to the CUP Fund (Caring Unites Partners) and the Robert Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership.
Janet Goldstein is a publishing consultant who has worked with entrepreneurs, business leaders, and nonprofits.

From Publishers Weekly:

After a working life spent building Starbucks from a chain of 28 stores to an international coffee business through positions such as executive vice president of sales, founding president of Starbucks International and president of Starbucks North America, Howard Behar tells of the strategies he used to establish the business into the success it is today. Behar shares the soft skills that helped to construct the company from a regional outlet to a corporation with international reach. While the book occasionally brings in examples from other companies, sharing anecdotes from Starbucks itself is Behar's strong suit. The most interesting sections involve stories behind products readers may know from their own visits to the coffee retailer. Thoughts behind the bottled Frappuccino product's launch or the have it the way you like it approach to beverage making are revealed. While revolutionary ideas are outnumbered by more standard good business practices, the voice of experience and in-house examples from a popular company make for a decent read for those wanting to develop or refresh basic business leadership skills. (Dec. 27) A Q&A with Bob Delaney (Oct. 29) identified the coauthor of Covert as Bill Walton. The book's coauthor is Dave Scheiber; Walton wrote the foreword.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1591841925
• ISBN 13: 9781591841920
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208