Who are the heroes in your life? Are you a hero to others? What does it take to become a hero of an organization, home, or business? What is your definition of a hero?   This book is about substance and not symbolism. It removes the metaphorical candy land concepts and replaces it with sound proven practices. This is a self-re-enforcing book for everyone that strive to understand and why others just don’t get it.

 

Many of us have been inundated with best practice self-help books concerning the way we ought to conduct ourselves, our families and businesses. Most of these books contain schools of thought that promise positive results if one follows so called better personal and business practices. These books pretend to understand and explain; however, these books lack the science that explains and differentiates good and/or bad practice outcomes. This book is structured differently. It is about the author’s personal experiences and research working with both the amazingly brilliant people as well as the galactically inane.

 

The case studies sited in the book relate to the authors personal experiences. The reader will not be inundated with espoused theoretical commentary brought about by an armchair philosophy or academic conjecture. The case studies in this book contain interoffice memorandums, technical documents, and other related articles pertaining to the business practices of several fortune 500 companies as well as State Medicaid bids in the area of healthcare computer technology.

 

• Case #1 – Are Educational Institutions in the United States really failing us?

• Case #2 – Organized Religion, is it just another Human Enterprise failing their followers?

• Case #3 – The truth about Federal Express Zapmail. Was it really a failure or ahead of its time? Did Zapmail have a profound influence in bringing about our internet technology today?

• Case #4 – Why are there healthcare issues with State and Federal programs? This case presents why things go wrong with the bid process involving State officials of Arkansas (during Bill Clinton’s Governorship), the Health Care Financial Administration (HCFA – Federal Government) and a company EDS who is presently the fiscal agent for the State of Tennessee’s Healthcare Financial Administration.   

           

The cases as well as models presented in this book explain why our enterprises face issues that have plagued our country for decades and how heroes have resolved issues and continue to rise above problems facing the future of all our enterprising organizations. Making sound decisions for the organization as well as for the people of the United States should be a high priority. When people of any endeavor refuse to remove the stinkin’ thinkin,’ we all lose. When we allow feelings to factualize outcomes, then rival explanations occur and definitive answers are lost. Due to the non-factual decision making practices taught to many, concept errors occur, and problems prevail. Do you want to help stop the insanity? Do you want to foster development for yourself as well as others? Then this book is for you.