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  Hauling Checks was a pretty funny book, focused on watching the death spiral of a company run by a lunatic and propped up by desperation. Pilots who stayed too long to retain credibility, in an industry that is sinking, are forced to extreme measures to earn a payday. What will bounce first, their airplanes broken on the tarmac or the company paycheck for their illegally under-reported flight hours? I state 'pretty funny' because I had to pick my jaw up a couple times and replace chuckles with straight 'wtf' statements a non-pilot could never understand. This by no means changes the audience, this book is highly approachable by any reader who is okay with some mixed black/construction site humor. Alex Stone's satirical novel Hauling Checks opens with an Authors Note. "This is a work of fiction. The pilots and other employees of the air cargo industry are actually nothing like the characters in this novel". Stone however, is listed as being a 'Freight...

  Nigel Travis’s book is a primer on corp civil discourse. I am a major believer in the law of two feet; that people with a desire to have impact will step forward. Unfortunately, these same people are often myopic in their vision, looking to achieve one goal only and have learned that the squeeky wheel gets the grease. Having worked with a number of companies over the years who have applied a blow torch to open conversation regarding policy, team feedback is always about lack of visibility toward results. The closed door/black box following of process, leaves anyone who was impacted by policy (all of us) left wondering who was actually listening and if anything would change. I have also worked at an org that had a fearless leader who tried hard to apply an open policy of communication, but did so inconsistently and controlled conflict with a heavy fist. This heavy fist was also present whenever people came to the table with less passion than he had. Instead of creating openness, i...

  Having read Lucy Foley’s The Hunting Party, I have little to say. 9 longtime friends go to a remote hunting lodge for new years. While snowed in and blocked from communication with local police, one of them is murdered. Good but predictable. Glad I read it. Glad I didn’t pay money for it (review copy). Solid characters, but a tedious ‘gotta draw out the secret ending’ delivery. But don’t let my opinion sway you. This may be right up your alley.