Bag Man (eBook)

The Story Behind the Improbable Rise of Coach

Lew Frankfort (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
250 Seiten
Harvard Business Review Press (Verlag)
979-8-89279-073-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The longtime CEO of Coach shares stories and strategies behind the company's stunning growth from a $6 million business to a $5 billion global brand.Lew Frankfort knew nothing about fashion when he became assistant to the founder of Coach. By the time he left, Frankfort had spent 29 years as CEO, growing Coach from a scrappy maker of leather bags with a small cult following to a beloved lifestyle brand. Along the way, Coach created a new market segmentaccessible luxurythat redefined an industry. In Bag Man, Frankfort explains how the son of a Bronx policeman, after working in city government, built a business that challenged conventions, grew it 1000%, and became recognized as one of the world's best CEOs.Bag Man offers lessons from both achievements and missteps as Coach reinvented itself over decades. Throughout, Frankfort considers a more personal aspect of leadershiphow the double-edged sword of fear and drive can lead to success but also take a toll. He shares his struggles with a haunting fear of failure, including how it drove an obsession with consumer insights that made Coach unique in the industry.Summing up Coach's philosophy in three wordsmagic plus logicBag Man shows how blending creativity and data-driven discipline can produce sustainable, profitable growth, helping to:Design and market products people loveBuild a roster of talent and a performance-driven cultureDrive strategies that pair a brand's unique value with the right market opportunitiesScale the business to achieve next-level organic growthOperate as a respected public companyA riveting, candid business memoir, Bag Man traces an extraordinary leadership journey that built a legacy brand.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.10.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Schlagworte: leadership, CEO, leader, Coach, CEO memoir, business memoir, CEO stories, CEO of Coach, Coach handbags, retail leading growth, strategy, marketing, leading a brand, brands, luxury brand, fashion and lifestyle brand, handbags, leather goods, fashion industry, design, designers, salespeople, fashion, design, accessible luxury, quality, scale, global brand, global expansion, product marketing, merchandising, high-performance teams, high performance, corporate transformation, brand identity, brand reinvention,
• ISBN-13: 979-8-89279-073-4 / 9798892790734