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SKU: CS129B Where Angels Fear to Tread - Softcover


Where Angels Fear to Tread - Softcover
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  • Code: CS129B
    Format: Softcover Book
    George H. Seaberg     Where Angels Fear to Tread - Softcover

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George H. Seaberg wrote this book for one reason: to help those who want to know more about how a small concern can operate and prosper in today's business climate. The largest part of my work life has been spent helping the company I began in 1973 survive and grow in the metal machining and fabricating business. I speak from that perspective. At times my views may seem somewhat narrow or parochial, but this kind of focus and intensity was required of for the company to succeed. When I was working as a professional engineer consultant for an architectural/engineering firm in the early 1970s, I had the opportunity to observe many companies that our firm either worked for or from whom we were seeking to obtain contracts. I relied heavily on this part of my work experience not only to help start and keep our company going in the earlier years of its existence but also to help it continue to grow after I sold it to my managers in 2006. The principles stated in the Bible are the basis on which I've tried to build a successful company, and these shaped or were the most significant factors in the business decisions I've made. This philosophy is really no different from those of the men who started Hobby Lobby, J.C. Penney's, Philliips Oil, Servicemaster Corp., The Lincoln Electric Company, and numerous others. I do now, and have since I started working in my chosen vocation, feel pitifully short in knowledge of my career subjects. This must be why successful and long-established company heads have often mentioned how the people who supported the leader of that company gave him or her the support he or she needed. Even a mechanical genius like R. G. LeTourneau, the father of modern earth-moving equipment, needed to have some of his engineers make drawings from the sketches he literally made in the dirt floor of his Peoria, IL, factory before putting them onto engineering drawings. This book shows readers how to start and operate a business through a people-oriented approach, rather than a systems (formulas and figures) approach. I want readers to have a "Can Do" positive attitude to follow their dreams of owning a business.

About the Author

George H. Seaberg is a graduate engineer with post-graduate work towards an MBA and has been a Certified Professional Engineer in several Midwest states. He was involved in management capacities for almost ten years before beginning his dream of starting and operating his own company in 1973, from the beginnings in the basement of his home as the only full-time employee to becoming a manufacturing company of 120 persons when he sold it in 2006. His writing experience includes an article for Modern Castings magazine; several stories for a national building systems design magazine; and a monthly column for the Illinois Professional Engineer entitled Ecologic. He lives with his wife of 50 years in Riverdale, Iowa, where they have lived for almost 40 years. They have three married children and seven grandchildren.

Paperback: 304 pages
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches