In July 2010 Keith Launchbury, a business consultant, experienced a severe band of pain across his chest, and within 24 hours was totally paralyzed from the middle of his chest to his toes. He was diagnosed with Transverse Myelitis, an auto immune disorder which causes the body's natural immune system to attack the spinal cord. All of this happened nearly 3000 miles from home, while he and his wife were traveling on business. For the next 42 days they moved through three hospitals as neurologists, immunologists, internists, hospitalists, nurses and other health care professionals tried to...

These are the rules that they won't teach you in Business School, disguised as a collection of stories which, no matter how far-fetched they appear, are all true and come from real life business experiences. When I teach I use these stories and examples to support, enlighten, and entertain my students during otherwise long and boring classroom lessons. People will often remind me of a story that I told them once long before and how they still remember it and the lesson taught by it. There are powerful lessons to be shared in each of them. The lessons in this book have the power to change your...

Adventure awaits after global warming takes down coastal cities all over the world, and all our basic systems fail. Follow the Cartright family on their journey across the Pacific Ocean in their 31 foot sail boat, the New Eden, and they search for, find, and settle in Harmony Utopia.