01622nam a2200205 a 4500001001400000003000700014005001700021008004100038020002500079040000800104100002400112245011000136260004000246300002100286520089100307650006601198650006501264650004501329650004201374vtls000079741KUKTEM20251125100332.0140604t2007    xxk    g      000 0 eng d  a9780007268863 (pbk.)  aUMP1 aGill, Michael Gates10aHow Starbucks saved my life :ba son of privilege learns to live like everyone else /cMichael Gates Gill  aLondon :bHarperCollins Pub.,c2007  a265 p. ;c20 cm.  aIn 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 0aAdvertising executiveszNew York (State)zNew YorkvBiography 0aMarketing consultantszNew York (State)zNew YorkvBiography 0aCoffeehouseszNew York (State)zNew York 0aAcoustic neuromaxPatientsvBiography