How Long to Read Of Life and Love

How Long Does it Take to Read Of Life and Love?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 51 minutes to read Of Life and Love by William Lowenkamp

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Book IV, The Chairman, is the fourth book in a cycle of seven books entitled Shattered Covenants. Shattered Covenants narrates the formation, rise, decline, and fall of McKenzie Barber, a global management consulting firm. The Chairman, Ernie Grey, after eighteen years as McKenzie Barber's CEO is beginning to reflect on succession. He is standing without opposition for his fourth six-year term as the Chairman of McKenzie Barber. The Chairman is narrated from Ernie Grey's point of view. He has been absolute monarch of McKenzie Barber. Instinctively, Ernie recognizes that the market for consulting services has changed, and that McKenzie Barber can no longer grow organically. Ernie Grey made an early choice in Hamilton Burke III, not unlike the manner in which John McKenzie, the founder, had picked out Ernie early in his career. He has moved Burke overseas through the French and the UK practices and brought him back to the US as McKenzie Barber's first Partner in Charge of Strategic Planning. The old line Partners fail to recognize Burke's emergence as a serious Chairman successor. Burke is the ultimate swashbuckling successor, a bachelor, former decorated Green Beret with a French mistress who owns a steel mill and who has an eye for receptive ladies. He is bigger than life with a matching ego. Ernie Grey has commissioned Burke to serve as the change agent to structure the McKenzie Barber in the 1980's. Book IV introduces Ernie Grey's initial flirtation with Toni Alter, a young woman junior in age to his own daughter. Ernie's wife, Millie, is carrying on an affair with Cornelius Vanderkelen, the powerful Chairman of International Petroleum Company (IPCO). The Vanderkelen fortune has been built on oil. Ernie is invited to join the IPCO Board while the Chairman, Cornelius Vanderkelen, is sleeping with his wife. Book IV, the Chairman, covers a three-month period during which Ernie Grey makes a decision on his successor. Prior villains and knaves introduced in the earlier three books of Shattered Covenants reappear in Book IV. They include the villainous Clyde Nickerson, General Buzzsaw Pritchard, who joins McKenzie Barber to head FSO, McKenzie Barber's Washington based defense industry consulting practice. Joe Baxter, who is finally elected a Partner, Roger Dirks, the Chairman contender, who is removed from contention following his stabbing by a Spanish dancer, Frank Alvardi , Baxter's executive compensation mentor who resembles Joe DiMaggio, Walker Frederick, who merchandises his employee benefits consulting practice to McKenzie Barber and a host of other characters with fluid tongues, sharp elbows, and aggressive financial expectations. The final lines of Book IV summarize The Chairman. The McKenzie Barber Partners Meeting of 1978 marked the end of the old order. There was no going back!

How long is Of Life and Love?

Of Life and Love by William Lowenkamp is 108 pages long, and a total of 27,864 words.

This makes it 36% the length of the average book. It also has 34% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Of Life and Love Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 32 minutes to read Of Life and Love aloud.

What Reading Level is Of Life and Love?

Of Life and Love is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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