by DAVID HEENAN

2010 Axiom Business Book Awards, Bronze Medal winner

Bright Triumphs From Dark Hours examines the lives of ten extraordinary people who overcame great adversity in their personal or professional lives by applying winning strategies that guided them out of the darkness of near-defeat and into the light of success. These inspiring profiles include:
•  high-tech entrepreneur Steve Case rebounding from the ill-fated AOL Time Warner merger to lead a philanthropic revolution;
•  New York City school chancellor Joel Klein taking on the monumental task of overhauling the city’s embattled public school system;
•  renowned scientist Shirley Ann Jackson breaking down barriers to become the first African American woman to receive a doctorate from MIT and head a major research university;
•  former Hewlett-Packard chair Pattie Dunn fighting to restore her professional reputation and her personal health while battling cancer.

From these stories, Heenan identifies key strategies that helped each person stay upbeat in the swirling vortex of tough times. The final chapter outlines these practices in greater detail and explains how they can be used to create personal roadmaps to negotiate life’s darkest hours—from which come its greatest successes, its brightest triumphs.

David Heenan

David Heenan, a former senior executive with Citigroup and multinational Jardine Matheson, is a trustee of the Estate of James Campbell, one of the nation’s largest landowners, and a visiting professor at Georgetown University. He has served on the faculties of the Wharton School, Columbia Business School, and University of Hawai‘i. His articles have appeared in such leading publications as the Harvard Business Review, the Sloan Management Review, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Christian Science Monitor. He is author or coauthor of six other books, including Flight Capital, Co-Leaders, and Double Lives. For more book details, see the UH Press website or www.BrightTriumphs.com.

A Latitude 20 Book published by University of Hawai‘i Press

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