Time to Get Tough: How Cookies, Coffee, and a Crash Led to Success in Business and Life

Michael J. Coles, the cofounder of the Great American Cookie Company and the former CEO of Caribou...
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Author: Michael J. Coles
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Time to Get Tough: How Cookies, Coffee, and a Crash Led to Success in Business and Life by Coles, Michael J.

Time to Get Tough: How Cookies, Coffee, and a Crash Led to Success in Business and Life

¥5,642

Time to Get Tough: How Cookies, Coffee, and a Crash Led to Success in Business and Life

¥5,642
Author: Michael J. Coles
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Michael J. Coles, the cofounder of the Great American Cookie Company and the former CEO of Caribou Coffee, did not follow a conventional path into business. He does not have an Ivy League pedigree or an MBA from a top-ten business school. He grew up poor, starting work at the age of thirteen. He had many false starts and painful defeats, but Coles has a habit of defying expectations. His life and career have been about turning obstacles into opportunities, tragedies into triumphs, and poverty into philanthropy.

In Time to Get Tough, Coles explains how he started a $100-million company with only $8,000, overcame a near-fatal motorcycle accident, ran for the U.S. Congress, and set three transcontinental cycling world records. His story also offers a firsthand perspective on the business, political, and philanthropic climate in the last quarter of the twentieth century and serves as an important case study for anyone interested in overcoming a seemingly insurmountable challenge. Readers will also discover practical leadership lessons and unconventional ways of approaching business.

Author: Michael J. Coles, Catherine M. Lewis
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 10/15/2018
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780820354620


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/24/2018

About the Author
Michael J. Coles (Author)
MICHAEL J. COLES is an entrepreneur, businessman, and community leader. He is the cofounder of the Great American Cookie Company and the former CEO of Caribou Coffee. He is also the namesake of the Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University. He lives in Atlanta and Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Catherine M. Lewis (Author)
CATHERINE M. LEWIS is the assistant vice president of Museums, Archives, and Rare Books and a professor of history at Kennesaw State University. She is the author, coeditor, or coauthor of thirteen books, including (with Sandra D. Deal and Jennifer W. Dickey) Memories of the Mansion: The Story of the Georgia Governor's Mansion (Georgia).


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