Robert Jordan (3)
Author of How They Did It: Billion Dollar Insights from the Heart of America
For other authors named Robert Jordan, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
Robert Jordan was born James Oliver Rigney Jr. on October 17, 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina. He received a B.S. in physics from The Citadel in 1974. He served two tours of duty in Vietnam with the U.S. Army and won The Distinguished Flying Cross, the Bronze Star and two Vietnamese Crosses of show more Gallantry. From 1974 to 1978, he worked for the U.S. Civil Service as a nuclear engineer. During the 1980's, he began writing several novels for the Conan the Barbarian series that was created in the 1930's by Robert E. Howard. He also wrote under many pseudonyms, which include the historical novels The Fallon Blood (1980), The Fallon Pride (1981) and The Fallon Legacy (1982) as Reagan O'Neal; and the western Cheyenne Riders (1982) as Jackson O'Reilly. He wrote articles for periodicals for the Library Journal, Fantasy Review and Science Fiction Review as Chang Lung. He was the author of the Wheel of Time series and The Towers of Midnight. He died on September 16, 2007 following a battle with cardiac amyloidosis. Jordan was cremated and his ashes buried in the churchyard of St. James Church in Goose Creek, outside Charleston. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Jordan, Robert James
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- University of Michigan
Northwestern University - Occupations
- business consultant
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- [from Penguin Random House website]
Robert Jordan is CEO of InterimExecs, matching organizations around the world with executives who specialize in growing and transforming companies. Jordan got his start in business by launching Online Access, the first magazine to cover the Internet, landing on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing companies. After selling Online Access, Jordan took on interim CEO engagements and authored a book of interviews with 45 company founders who had created $63 billion in value from scratch, titled How They Did It: Billion Dollar Insights from the Heart of America. He is the publishing partner of Start With No, a bestselling book on negotiation, and is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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