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Al Dunlap is an original: an outspoken, irascible executive with an incredible track record of injecting new life into tired companies. The business media have coined a new verb"to dunlap"when describing a fast company turnaround. In April 1994 he became CEO and chairman of Scott Paper, which had lost $277 million in 1993, was on credit watch for excessive debt, and whose stock had been comatose for seven years. In a mere 19 months, Scott had record earnings, the stock had increased in value by $6.5 billion (over 200 percent), and Dunlap merged Scott with KimberlyClark in a stock swap that valued Scott at $9 billion and created the second largest consumer-products company in the United States.

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“Al Dunlap is what Frank Sinatra would have been if God had stolen back half an octave: Up from the streets of Hoboken, N.J., toughminded, proud of the hate he attracts, convinced it's a tribute to his audacity. Hate him or love himand there is considerable reason for bothhe personifies the particularly American conviction that individuals, not collective systems, solve problems. If you want a book that shows you all the colorful contradictions of late 20th century capitalism, you've come to the right place.” – Bob Baker, Los Angeles Times

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