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...climb to prominence hasn't been easy. Just a few decades ago, Samsung Group founder Lee made the annual December pilgrimage to Japan for how-to books and advice from economists and business leaders, some of whom were his classmates in the 1930s at Tokyo's prestigious Waseda University. As recently as the late 1970s, Samsung engineers were huddled over Japanese TV sets, trying to reverse-engineer their components and produce them for less. As late as 1993, Samsung Electronics remained a little-known company within one of Korea's sprawling industrial conglomerates, or chaebols. The firm was just beginning...
...Lied (recently on AMC), a show whose frenetic pace mimics the job description: run fast and get nowhere. And never humiliate anyone so horribly that you can't get a favor from him tomorrow. Producer Lynda Obst, on whose book the series is based, is the host of this hectic how-to--as in "How to Make a Rotten Movie That Grosses $90 Mil." She looks fine, but a quick tip to the other producers: Lose the six-day beards. You're not Keanu Reeves...
...English major and word-monger I was aghast when the my eyes skimmed over “Beauty and the Breast,” Glamour magazine’s October how-to which instructs women everywhere to “make their chests over” with an array of creams, acids and something called a YAG laser. Not only did the quick-witted style sergeants declare that open-down-to-there shirts are apparently the thing to wear, but they did so with some of the most offensive puns I have ever read. The word “best?...
...business strategy has been dissected for mass consumption in dozens of how-to books, and he recently broke 70 in his golf game...
...market, a slim inspirational text called The Prayer of Jabez, written by an evangelist based in Atlanta, Bruce Wilkinson, and published by a tiny firm in Sisters, Ore., has sold a Grisham-like 3.5 million copies and advanced this week to No. 1 on the New York Times Advice, How-to & Miscellaneous best-sellers list--even though the Times does not count books sold in religious bookstores. Says Lynn Garrett, religion editor at Publishers Weekly: "It's a raging success, and I think it's going to continue to build. It could easily become this year's hardcover best seller...