One Tough Mother the wounded kingdom

One Tough Mother the wounded kingdomWhen a heart attack claimed Gert Boyle's husband in 1970, the forty six year old housewife and mother of three found herself at the helm of Columbia Sportswear, a small outerwear manufacturer in Portland, Oregon, that was struggling financially. With no business experience whatsoever, Boyle was faced with the challenge of running Columbia, which had been founded in 1937 by her father a Jewish immigrant who had fled Hitler's Germany. Boyle and her son

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Could it be that many of us have failed to expand our potential because we have allowed what we perceive as capacity to define us