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Max De Pree is the retired chairman of Herman Miller, Inc., the primary innovator in the furniture industry for sixty years. Named one of the hundred best companies to work for in the United States, Herman Miller also ranked ninth in a Fortune survey of the most admired corporations and sixth in management excellence. (From the publisher.)
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Max De Pree is an American writer. A son of D.J. De Pree, founder of Herman Miller office furniture company, he and his brother Hugh De Pree assumed leadership of the company the early 1960s. He succeeded his brother Hugh as CEO in the mid-1980s and served in that capacity to 1990. His book Leadership Is an Art has sold more than 800,000 copies. In 1992, DePree was inducted into Junior Achievement's U.S. Business Hall of Fame.
He studied at Wheaton College but was interrupted by World War II. He served on the European Theatre of Operations. Still in the Army, he studied at the University of Pittsburgh, Haverford College and the University of Paris. After his military service he attended Hope College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1948. (From Wikipedia.)