Play It Forward: From Gymboree To The Yoga Mat And Beyond

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• Play It Forward From Gymboree To The Yoga Mat And Beyond available on November 10 2023 from BiggerBooks for 15.76
  
• Play It Forward: From Gymboree To The Yoga Mat And Beyond available on April 06 2016 from Indigo for 23.95
  
• ISBN bar code 9781572841901 ξ1 registered November 10 2023
  
• ISBN bar code 9781572841901 ξ2 registered April 06 2016
  
• Product category is Book

• Sku # 9781572841901R
  
• Sku # 978157284190
  

Barnes built an innovative, billion-dollar household brand starting with $3,000 and working in a church basement. The book reveals how she grew her company through a groundbreaking franchise-model expansion, how her operational strategy focused on creating business opportunities for women, and how Gymboree eventually became a powerful international business network, one that blazed the trail for a new industry: activity-based classes for pre-preschool children. But this dramatic entrepreneurial memoir is also a cautionary tale and a story of redemption. When the Gymboree initial public offering yielded a stock price boost of 58 percent on the first day of trading, Barnes was nowhere near Wall Street. She had stepped down from the company two years earlier because the stress of building the business fueled a deep-seated eating disorder that threatened to destroy everything she worked so hard to build. Through the course of this extraordinary story,

^ Play It Forward From Gymboree To The Yoga Mat And Beyond BiggerBooks. ISBN 9781572841901 (revised Nov 2023)
^ Play It Forward: From Gymboree To The Yoga Mat And Beyond Indigo. ISBN 9781572841901 (revised Apr 2016)