TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gill,Michael
TI  - How Starbucks saved my life: a son of privilege learns to live like everyone else 
SN  - 9781592402861
AV  - CT275.G4163 A3 2007
U1  - 647.95092B 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Gotham Books
KW  - Gill, Michael
KW  - Starbucks Coffee Company
KW  - Employees
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Biography
KW  - Advertising executives
KW  - Marketing consultants
KW  - Coffeehouses
KW  - Acoustic neuroma
KW  - Patients
N2  - In his fifties, Michael Gates Gill had it all: a big house, a loving family, and a six-figure salary. By sixty, he had lost everything: downsized at work, divorced at home, and diagnosed with a slow-growing brain tumor, Gill had no money, no insurance, and no prospects. He took a job at Starbucks, and for the first time in his life, he was a minority--the only older white guy working with a team of young African-Americans. He was forced to acknowledge his prejudices and admit that his new job was hard. And his younger coworkers, despite half the education and twice the personal difficulties, were running circles around him. Crossing over the Starbucks bar was the beginning of a transformation that cracked his world wide open. When all of his defenses and the armor of entitlement had been stripped away, a humbler, happier and gentler man remained.--From publisher description
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