A candid, moving and inspirational memoir about a high-flying business man who is forced to re-evaluate his life and values when he suddenly loses everything and goes to work in Starbucks. Michael Gill had it made. He was educated, wealthy and well-connected. He had a creative and lucrative advertising job, which he loved and which he was good at, and a model family and home life. Then he loses it all. He is fired by a young exec whom he had mentored. He has an extramarital affair that destroys his family and results in a newborn son. Then he is diagnosed with brain cancer. He has no insurance, no income. One day he wanders into Starbucks and by chance signs up for a job interview. His would-be boss is a young black woman who gives him a job, and sets about training him and mentoring him. What follows is an inspirational eye-opener as Gill experiences a whole new world compared to his former life -- with people from completely different ethnic and social backgrounds. 'How Starbucks Saved My Life' follows Gill's journey of discovery as gradually he is forced to question his ingrained assumptions, prejudices and habits.Gill emerges from his fall from grace with humility and gratitude. His new-found empathy teaches him how anyone who has lost their way, or made a mistake, can start again.
邁剋爾•蓋茨•吉爾生於康乃狄剋州,為《紐約客》雜誌知名作傢布蘭登•基爾(Brendan Gill)之子。耶魯大學畢業後,進入華特湯普森廣告公司工作二十年之久,並晉升為創意總監、副總裁,最後竟遭裁員解職。之後他創業不成,又陷入傢庭、經濟和健康的多重威脅,在六十幾歲的年紀陷入人生榖底。在偶然的機會下,他獲得瞭星巴剋店員的工作,而得以進入這深具魅力的國際性企業,一探其運作奧秘與文化,而他也在這裏重新學習人生的功課、感受溫暖堅實的情誼,並且將這段戲劇化的遭遇寫成本書,與讀者分享。目前他居住在紐約,每天都走路到離傢不遠的星巴剋咖啡店上班,而且目前還沒有任何退休計劃,要繼續投入這個他認為一生中最精彩、最美好的工作。
昨天看瞭本書叫《星巴剋拯救瞭我的生命》。此書好比長篇軟文,告訴我們星巴剋怎麼善待員工和顧客,怎麼提供優質服務和咖啡,怎麼倡導和堅持人人平等和反對種族歧視……總之,故事交代瞭星巴剋在一個60多歲的老人潦倒無助之時像神一般挽救瞭他,讓他獲得重生。盡管被感...
評分很好看的故事,卻又不是故事,很驚訝這本書居然是作者本人的經曆,完全真實,真實到連書中人物的名字幾乎也用的是真名,一直都很喜歡星巴剋營造的浪漫咖啡氣氛,讀完此書,為作者的勇氣所感動,世間有幾人能真正做到放下屠刀立地成佛呢,那份勇氣真是可貴的,從世界一流的廣告...
評分看第一章就忍不住倒吸瞭一口冷氣,如此高調奢華的前半生:名人之子、耶魯與骷髏會、頂級廣告公司副總裁,卻在63歲高齡之時遭遇生存危機,不由得讓我想到自己,是否在不遠的將來也會麵臨類似窘境,我可不想60多歲再去為生活奔波。 隨著章節的推進,為瞭安慰自己,為瞭不擔憂未來...
評分《穿普拉達的魔鬼》(又譯時尚女魔頭)寫瞭一個與時尚名牌普拉達有關的女魔頭,而《星巴剋拯救瞭我的生命》則恰恰相反,寫瞭一個與時尚品牌星巴剋相關的天使。在全球化時代,想要寫一本流行小說的策略之一,就是得“藉勢”,得嚮這個消費主義盛行的時代最炫目火熱的品牌符號尋...
評分在年過半百之際遇上事業,婚姻和人際的低榖是不幸的;但一個從小生活在優越環境中的人能在自己的一生中得到這樣一種磨練卻是幸運的,不枉此生。。。
真滴不是星巴剋廣告嗎,文筆很一般。
评分Borrowed from Maegan, quite an easy read. meaning in life leads to happiness.
评分邂逅:2013.7.住處; 旅程:2013.7.-2013.7.18.; 地點:德裏各處; 老年人勵誌故事+傢族史爆料+星巴剋軟廣告。看在是老年人的份上多加一顆星。
评分很羨慕作者那多姿多彩的人生
评分挺好看,就是太像廣告~
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