News: Worrying about getting old---running from the AARP? Want to pursue dreams vigorously instead of just thinking about them? This is your book. Boss Nova Odyssey has received an Honorable Mention Award in the Biography/Autobiography category both at the San Francisco and New York Book Festivals. Michael Graham was a seasoned businessman who’d traveled the globe, first as the son of an airline professional and then for his own career. Spending time in government, advertising, and the hospitality industry, he crisscrossed America and eventually headed a global division of the world’s largest ad agency. At sixty years old, he had done more than most men could fit into one lifetime. Yet he needed one more adventure.
In his twenties, Graham had opened a restaurant in Utah. Now he wanted to start an Asian eatery in São Paulo. It was not a city he knew well, and its people were even more unfamiliar to him. Even better—or worse—he spoke absolutely no Portuguese. This venture was designed to test him to the max.
Before much time had passed, Graham found himself in the perfect storm of red tape, uncertain financial capital, and customers who refused to be pleased. The daunting nature of the challenge he’d set for himself made him wonder why he had undertaken it in the first place. Was it simply a way to stave off the anxiety of aging? Or could this project bring him a kind of success he’d never experienced before?
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Michael Graham has lived an international life from the get-go. With a father in the airline industry, Graham learned to love travel and adventure. Born in England, he has lived in several different countries, including Belgium, Italy, Brazil, and the United States.
He got his start in New York City, when he entered the business world. From there, he moved to Utah to open a restaurant and a ski resort. After that, he became the governor’s chief of staff and conducted several local and national political campaigns. He then returned to the East Coast, where he entered the advertising industry and worked on a global scale.
Yet none of this compared with the challenge of what Graham did next: he opened a business in São Paulo without knowing one word of Portuguese. The Boss Nova Odyssey details this story.
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