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Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership,and the Olympic Games

The head of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics organizing committee describes how he assumed the leadership of the troubled organization and turned it around to present one of the most successful Olympic Games ever.

Subject
biographyleadershippolitics
Themes
politics
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 396 pages

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