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The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (2000, Paperback) 
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (2000, Paperback)

 
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (2000, Paperback)

Author: Tracy Kidder
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Publication Date: 2000-06-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0316491977
ISBN-13: 9780316491976
Product ID: EPID1645852
Description: Kidder reminds managers that more inspiring than a big paycheck is meeting a big, meaningful, and clearly-defined challenge. THE SOUL OF A NEW MACHINE follows a team through the course of solving a critical issue, complementing the story...
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Synopsis
Kidder reminds managers that more inspiring than a big paycheck is meeting a big, meaningful, and clearly-defined challenge. THE SOUL OF A NEW MACHINE follows a team through the course of solving a critical issue, complementing the story with insights any manager interested in motivating the troops would do well to follow.

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Publication Date:2000-06-01

Size
Height:8.8 in
Width:5.8 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:11.2 oz

Publisher's Note
A Pulitzer Prize-winning study of the evolution of modern technology and its influence offers a behind the scenes look at the high technology computer industry, observing a crash program to develop a highly complicated machine and the people involved in this competitive business. Reprint.

Industry Reviews
"A superb book...All the incredible complexity and chaos and exploitation and loveliness and strange, half-mad beauty of this field are honestly and correctly drawn here."
Robert M. Pirsig

"Tracy Kidder can turn the most unlikely story into riveting drama."
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"Kidder has endowed the tale with such pace, texture, and poetic implication that he has elevated it to a high level of narrative art....Splendid."
Alexander-Moegerle

"A true-life adventure."
Alexander-Moegerle

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