Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Part I: The Early Years -- 1. Garland Avenue -- 2. Leaving Home -- 3. Matrimony and Maritime -- 4. Halls of Ivy, Huts of Metal -- Part II: Getting Down to Business -- 5. Meeting Wendell Cherry -- 6. Reaching for the Sky -- 7. Ziggy and the Colonels -- 8. Making Mistakes and Moving On -- 9. Focus and Lift-Off -- 10. Proudly Not Non-Profit -- 11. Peter's Principles -- 12. Stock Market Trouble, Business Success -- 13. Roots and Wings -- Part III: Attention and Engagement in River City -- 14. David Jones 1, Ben-Hur 0 15. Artificial Heart, Real Drama -- 16. Architecture, Poetry, Civic Progress -- 17. Hardware and Hard Lessons -- 18. Main Street Realty -- 19. Suffer the Children -- 20. With the Help of My Friends -- 21. Mom and the Six Kids -- 22. Every Parent's Nightmare -- 23. The Dying of the Light -- 24. The Company Splits -- Part IV: Retirement, Rescue, and Reinvention -- 25. Going Back, Pushing Forward -- 26. Walking Away From Death on 9/11 -- 27. Betting on People -- 28. Widening the Path -- 29. Leadership Lessons Learned -- 30. Change of Command -- 31. Retirement, but Not Rest 32. Seeing the Forest, for the Future -- Epilogue by Bob Hill -- Afterword by David Jones, Jr. -- Appendix -- Some thoughts on Health Care System Reform -- Investing 101 -- Accounting 101 -- Points of Interest -- A Timeline -- Acknowledgements -- Index
Summary:
The story of friends, family, hometown values ? and an entrepreneur who changed American healthcare forever.
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