Bill Birnbaum

A Lifetime of Small Adventures (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

If there's even a bit of the adventurer in you, you'll love Bill Birnbaum's stories of adventure, misadventure and lessons learned along the way.

You will:
- Laugh when you learn that, as a teenager, he experimented with home-made rockets and bombs. And quite innocently, he claims he did just a little bit of damage.

- Hold your breath while reading Bill's stories about picking up hitchhikers. Fortunately, only a few of them were seriously dangerous.

- Gasp while reading of the plane's single engine quitting at 2,500 feet. (Yep, Bill survived.)

- Thrill to Bill's adventure travel by 4-wheel drive automobile in Mexico's Baja California Peninsula back before the road was paved.

- Move to the edge of your chair when reading of his being caught by the river's swift current. Drifting quickly downstream, he heard the rapids growing louder and louder.

And you'll:
- Pause to reflect on Bill's opinion that we creatures of modern society are too damn busy. And too materialistic.

- Nod in agreement with his theory about "The Three Ages of Man." And how every person needs to maintain their dignity.

You'll either admire him or think he's nuts when you learn that, at age 64 When his application was turned down by the Peace Corps' medical department, he and his wife sold their home, moved to the Peruvian Andes, and there created their own volunteer opportunity.

If you love adventure and lessons learned from adventure, this is the book for you.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bill Birnbaum
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781932632019
• Artikelnr.: 70043851

Autorenporträt

For over three decades, I've worked with senior management teams helping them develop a shared strategic vision for their organization and then turn that vision into a sound business strategy. For 20 years, I published and edited the Business Strategies Newsletter. I've authored a number of strategy books including "Strategic Thinking: A Four Piece Puzzle," currently in its fifth printing. Also for 20 years, I taught strategy courses for the American Management Association including: • The Strategic Planning Course • Strategy Implementation (I developed this course for the AMA) • Thinking and Managing Strategically I also developed The Strategic Planning WorkshopTM, a hands-on program to prepare senior management teams to develop their strategic plan. I've conducted that program for hundreds of organizations and thousands of senior and mid-level managers. I've served on the board of directors for three high-growth corporations, all of which were acquired per the plan I help them develop. • ISR Corporation • Trans-met Engineering • Woodroof Laboratories I'm certified as a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) by the Institute of Management Consultants. I hold a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master's Degree in Business Administration. In 2007, I lived and worked as a business consultant in Abancay, Peru, helping entrepreneurs and university students stimulate economic development in this poor region of the Peruvian Andes. I lectured at both UNAMBA and UTEA Universities and wrote for Nuevo Management Journal. I speak, read and write Spanish, and have traveled extensively in Spain, Mexico and South America. Now semi-retired, I work with a few select clients from time to time. I continue to write on the subject of business strategy development and implementation and also offer critique of strategic plans and strategic planning processes.