Stories From The Middle Seat: The four-million-mile journey to building a billion dollar international business

How do you build a multi-billion dollar international business?

And then how do you save one when it seems like all the cards are stacked against you?

Sharing letters he sent to his father during his years of traveling the world building--and then saving--a multi-billion dollar company, Bob Hemphill's Stories from the Middle Seat recounts the funny, unique, and sometimes out­landish parts of international business.

From a time of significant prosperity to a period of domestic and international finan­cial hardship, we have Bob's insider views on what it takes to be successful, or at least to survive. We go from goose blinds in Virginia to Incan ruins in Peru, from the islands of the Caribbean to those of Greece, from Riyadh in Saudi Arabia to an Israeli kibbutz. Hemphill details the interactions with professional colleagues and with family, deals with the ups and downs of business, and responds with his inimitable wit and wisdom to it all.

Whether you're an armchair traveler, a successful or beleaguered business per­son, or a reader simply looking to enjoy and learn about international business, you will relate to Hemphill's humorous, candid and unfettered take on life, relationships - business and personal - and cultural eccentricities, realizing that it just may be these eccentricities and relationships that define our com­mon humanity.

Author: R. F. Hemphill
Publisher: Strelitzia Ventures
Published: 01/01/2016
Pages: 274
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9780991298518

About the Author
Hemphill, R. F.: - R. F. Hemphill has worked in the energy business since the 1973 oil embargo, including stints at the Tennessee Valley Authority, thirty five years as a senior executive at AES, a global electric power corporation, and as CEO of Silver Ridge Power, a leading solar company. He was educated at Yale and UCLA, and in Viet-nam as an infantry platoon leader. He has survived airborne and Special Forces training and four million miles on United. His first book, Dust Tea, Dingoes and Dragons, won the National Indie Excellence Award for Humor, three Gold Awards from the Non-fiction Authors Association, and was a San Diego Book Awards finalist in the "memoir" category. He lives in Encinitas, California without a dog.