A native of San Francisco, Peter B. Kyne was a prolific
screenwriter and the author of the 1920 bestseller Kindred of the
Dust. His stories of Cappy Ricks and the Rick's Logging & Lumbering
Company were serialized in The Saturday Evening
Post and William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan magazine. He died
in 1957. Historian Alan Axelrod is the author of the
business bestsellers Patton on Leadership and Elizabeth I, CEO. He
lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Although Kyne's tale of business smarts has been around for some time, it doesn't feel dated. ... The 82-year-old story gets some slight spiffing up by business book writer Axelrod, and the afterword is especially helpful in pinpointing Kyne's main ideas. - Publishers Weekly The Go-Getter is a great book for motivating employees to take initiative and make decisions without constantly asking for management assent. ... What a revelation! - Mark Hansen, The American Society of Safety Engineers Earle M. Jorgensen, who built one of the nation's largest steel distribution companies and helped persuade Ronald Reagan to go into politics ... kept stacks of a book called The Go-Getter: A Story That Tells You How to Be One [in his desk] and gave away signed copies to visitors. - The New York Times
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