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 Hemphills 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 Bobs 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 youre 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 Hemphills 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.