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"""Steve Miller has a knack for taking over companies just before they are about to smash into a wall,"" the Wall Street Journal observed. ""In fact, it is his specialty."" For thirty years--beginning with the legendary Chrysler bailout, which he negotiated as a key member of Lee Iacocca's team, to the revival of the U.S. steel industry--Miller has done the messy, unpleasant work of salvaging America's lost companies. Though he has brought many companies back to life, Miller is deeply aware of the high price individual workers and many communities must pay to restore the health of American industry. That's why the Wall Street Journal said, ""He has become Mr. Fix-It for American industry, stepping in to help large, once-dominant businesses confront and manage ugly realities."" The ugly reality is that there is a battle going on in the heart of industrial America, or what is left of it. Centered in the auto industry but radiating out to every manufacturing corporation, management and labor are at loggerheads over wages and the cost of employee benefits. At the bankrupt Delphi Corporation, Miller is cutting costs and closing plants, but he's doing the job for $1. If anyone knows what it will take for American manufacturing to return to profitability, it's Miller. In this frank memoir, Miller reveals a rarely seen side of American management. Known for his wry sense of humor, Miller talks about what it takes to be an executive. He shares the credit for his success with his ""mentor and occasional tormentor,"" Margaret Kyger Miller, who was his wife and ally for forty years. Her death opens the book and reminds the reader that this will be a blunt and unsparing look at Miller's own education as an American executive."

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"Narrator Dick Hill is an experienced narrator who knows his way around a story and offers a firm, believable reading that will engage listeners.-- ""AudioFile"" ""When corporate executives sit down to write a book, the result is often a bland recitation of accomplishments, a few charmingly self-deprecating admissions of mistakes, and a handful of business formulas that might help you, the reader, achieve similar success. The Turnaround Kid is not one of those books."" -- ""Wall Street Journal"""

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Steve Miller earned a degree in economics from Stanford University in 1963 and a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1966. In 1968, he received an MBA in finance from Stanford Business School. Previously the chairman and chief executive officer of Delphi Corporation, he became executive chairman on January 1, 2007. He also serves as chair of the Delphi Strategy Board, the company's top policymaking group, and Delphi's board of directors. He has held positions at a variety of companies, including Bethlehem Steel, Federal-Mogul, Reliance Group Holdings, Morrison Knudsen, Ford Motor Company, and the Chrysler Corporation. He is a native of Portland, Oregon. Reader of over 400 audiobooks, Dick Hill has won three coveted Audie awards and been nominated numerous times. He is also the recipient of several AudioFile Earphones Awards. AudioFile includes Dick on their prestigious list of Golden Voices.

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