The Montreal Olympics: An Insider's View of Organizing a Self-financing Games - Hardcover

Howell, Paul Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773535187 ISBN 13: 9780773535183

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Paul Howell, a planning consultant and key player in the Montreal Olympic Organizing Committee, offers an insider's perspective on how a vast, complex, expensive, and highly politicized event was organized within the constraints imposed by limited resources, an unyielding deadline, and intense pressures from international and local special interest groups. He looks at both the struggles and what went uniquely right in Montreal, setting the record straight on operations, political involvement, and finance, including details of the well-publicized multi-billion dollar deficit that was misrepresented by the press and misunderstood by the public for decades.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Charles Howell, president of HT/TH Howell Technologie, has planned large projects worldwide, including several Olympic Games, and lectured in the McGill Faculty of Management and the HÉC, Université de Montréal.

Review:

"The Montreal Olympics offers valuable information on the nature of planning and the need for constant revision and flexibility, as well as a good snapshot of the thousands of decisions that have to be made in the process of competing tasks of great magnitude and complexity." Brian Milner, The Globe and Mail

About this edition

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0773535187
• ISBN 13: 9780773535183
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264