STEVE SMITH

"El ego es el rubro invisible en el estado de pérdidas y ganancias de toda empresa y en él se esconde sutilmente, razón por la que precisamente, durante décadas, si no siglos, no nos hemos hecho mejores, y quiza tampoco peores.Con el objetivo claro de mejorar la manera como usted hace negocios, egonomicspresenta un enfoque liberador para la tarea de convertirse en unlider sui generis y respetado. Despues de leer este libro, usted aprenderatres principios clave que mantienen al ego saludable:Humildad: como encontrar el equilibrio crucial entre demasiado ego e insuficiente ego.Curiosidad: como mezclar el pensamiento libre y la disciplina sin introducir un sesgo personal, yVeracidad: como eliminar el miedo a dar o recibir retroalimentacion para producir la honestidad que se tiene en privado. ¡Quelibro tan brillante y de importancia tan vital! El ego es el opuesto de la conciencia. Nunca duerme. Microgestiona y debilita. Solo cuando la conciencia y la humildad domestican al ego y canalizan su fuerza, puede este ser utilizado de un modo positivo. Stephen R. Covey, autor de Los 7 habitos de las personas altamente eficientes."

Este libro propone un método para mejorar las probabilidades de éxito, empresarial y personal, que llena el monumental vacío entre los resultados que quieren los directivos y los fracasos que a menudo obtienen. Las reglas de Business think ofrecen a los líderes del mañana la habilidad para crear soluciones efectivas y alcanzar objetivos deseados. Business think transform a los trabajadores en personas de empresa con unas nuevas reglas provocativas y poderosas que les ayudaran a tomar decisiones, hacer que su colegas crean en su juicio y liderazgo, influenciar y utilizar sus talentos. Volverse mucho más influyentes y relevantes.

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1996: Sergeant Nick Adair defends British Army border post "Hotel 55" from being overrun by the IRA, but the only witnesses to his bravery tell a different tale, with themselves as heroes and Adair c

For military veterans of every era, especially those who served in the fifties and sixties, this comical, irreverent look back at the vanished peacetime Army will revive those zany memories of Basic Training and duty stations where humor was an enlisted mans only weapon against the boredom and aggravation inescapable in days crawling with tedium and mind-numbing details called chickenshit.Eager to escape boring college classrooms for a taste of real life, the author saw the Army as an adventurous rite of passage as well as a passport to exotic places and, fueled by this delusion, volunteered for the draft. He soon discovered that life in the Armys feudal atmosphere was a living comic strip in which he and his fellow enlistees were engaged in a secret underground campaign to steal moments of illicit pleasure when the Armys disgruntled minions were looking the other way.Thats how it was back when the Army was almost fun, kind of like summer camp for slackers mixed with a relaxed prison system run by humorless primates called NCOs. So dive in and haul back to the wacky days of the peacetime Army, a time and place which, regrettably, will never be again.

This book continues my peacetime Army adventures begun with Single Striper and chronicles a time of going through the motions with ones brain half asleep and no ostensible purpose guiding our actions other than keeping the military machine from going to rust.Luckily, a few of us found a niche playing music instruments in a wacky outfit called the Kitzingen Area Band, which freed us from the usual tedium of soldiering and let loose the unruly civilian in us. The immediate Army through which we carelessly strolled, however, cast a jaundiced eye on our unmilitary bearing and sought ways of infiltrating our ranks.Then a birthday greeting card for a tuba player named Stretch arrived from the White House, signed by his Gettysburg friend and neighbor, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the wacky dance began . . .

The Army that appears in the following pages is the Army seldom written about--that of sleep-walking boredom; of repetitive, mind-numbing and absurd details; of scowling, anal-retentive NCOs watching their disgruntled charges for signs of unauthorized pleasure; of days itching with tedium marching one after another in deadly sameness into the dim future.Eager to escape boring college classrooms for a taste of real life, the author saw the Army as an adventurous rite of passage as well as a passport to exotic places, and volunteered for the draft. He quickly discovered that the army, with its martial airs, enforced class divisions, and its rigid and humorless nature, was a living comic strip, populated by a pseudo-serious parade of starched, aloof officers and crude humanoids called NCOs.One looked for chinks in this armored process, a moment when our warders were looking the other way. After all, we draftees and volunteers were still full of the antic energy of our post-adolescence, and quickly realized that the only thing that would save the experience from wearing one down to a disgruntled nub was to "bug out" whenever we could and salvage some fun from it. To get through our tours with our civilian identities intact then became our secret undeclared war.Thats how it was back when the Army was almost fun, kind of like summer camp run by humorless Mother Superiors. So grab hold of my shirttail and haul back with me to the wacky days of the peacetime Army, a time and place which, regrettably, will never be again.

Every soldiers tour had its share of obtuse NCOs, chickenshit details, and those exquisitely torturous and endless waits best characterized in the ironic phrase, "Move around all you like, but keep one foot in place." This belated salute is for you disgruntled veterans who have known the joys of KP, guard duty in the rain, GIing latrines, hikes in the humid Georgia boonies, and above all, Army chow, a scourge to eye, nose and palate which will forever live . . . in infamy.

John Hillings, an employee of an Ohio manufacturing firm now run by two Cybot entities mockingly called Huey and Deweythe latest in operational Artificial Intelligence who will be let loose to bring about their notions of positive change on society once they have mastered human communicationsuspects them of having a crazed agenda injurious to mankind. While engaging them in fruitless bouts of demented logic, from which he despairs of rational communication with an electronic brain, he and his fourteen-year-old son Nate, a member of a teen underground group called Warrior Hackers of America, determine to be vigilant regarding the Cybots every move for devious designs and wacky projects. Including the very real possibility that they could decimate the earths human population purely by misadventure.

The Generals first mistake was granting the men of the Kitzingen Area Band leeway to provide a musical background for his exalted command. His second mistake was not establishing someone to keep an eye on us. The company where we billeted were told that we were "hands off," that they were to leave us to our own devices. Corruption naturally followed, helped along by letters and cards from the White House to a tuba player whose farm abutted President Eisenhowers at Gettysburg. Soon the KAB was more a rollicking college frat than a military unit, a close cousin to M*A*S*H. So climb aboard and discover why we were called "The Fucking Band."

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Story themes run from mystery to satire (the demise of a persistent mime), to war, to time travel (a love story), to a lethal duel in an Arizona desert, along with an autobiographical story of a car of German manufacture that nearly exsanguinated our bank account. Humor, bloodletting, the occasionally surreal, and grim drama unfold in these Pages.

Darkly imagined adventures for readers with a quirky sense of humor and a jaded reading palate, including nature stories and a touch of fantasy and Sci/fi. Themes range from a guy forced into a western-style duel in a southwestern desert, a Pakistani slum kid being indoctrinated to blow himself up, a starving cat giving his rescuer a lesson in commitment, a farmer being questioned by one of his cows who was sent by the herd elders to ask some stiff questions, to mention a few. As a bonus enjoy snarky remarks from the author . . .

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