In a spare, brisk prose, Ollestad tells the tragic story of the pivotal event of his life, an airplane crash into the side of a mountain that cost three lives, including his father's, in 1979. Only 11 years old at the time, he alone survived, using the athletic skills he learned in competitive downhill skiing, amid the twisted wreckage, the bodies and the bone-chilling cold of the blizzard atop the 8,600-foot mountain. Although the narrative core of the memoir remains the horrifying plane crackup into the San Gabriel Mountains, its warm, complex soul is conveyed by the loving relationship between the former FBI agent father and his son, affectionately called the Boy Wonder, during the golden childhood years spent in wild, freewheeling Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s. Ollestad's unyielding concentration on the themes of courage, love and endurance seep into every character portrait, every scene, making this book an inspiring, fascinating read.

When NBC decided to move Jay Leno into prime time to make room for Conan O'Brien to host the Tonight show-a job he had been promised five years earlier-skeptics anticipated a train wreck for the ages. It took, in fact, only a few months for the dire predictions to come true. Leno's show, panned by critics, dragged down the ratings-and the profits-of NBC's affiliates, while ratings for Conan's new Tonight show plummeted to the lowest levels in history. Conan's collapse, meanwhile, opened an unexpected door of opportunity for rival David Letterman. What followed was a boisterous, angry, frequently hilarious public battle that had millions of astonished viewers glued to their sets. In The War for Late Night, New York Times reporter Bill Carter offers a detailed behind-the-scenes account of the events of the unforgettable 2009/2010 late-night season as all of its players- performers, producers, agents, and network executives-maneuvered to find footing amid the shifting tectonic plates of television culture.

It's a sad fact of life, but no matter what kind of business or institution you work in, as an employee you are often subjected to demoralizing--downright dumb--behavior from managers, sometimes on a daily basis. Shortsighted management decisions, thoughtless actions--even rude behavior--are as commonplace as they are unbearable. Furthermore, they are damaging not just on a personal level, but on the organizational level as well. In When Smart People Work for Dumb Bosses, William and Kathleen Lundin bring corporate stupidity out of the closet.

It's a sad fact of life, but no matter what kind of business or institution you work in, as an employee you are often subjected to demoralizing--downright dumb--behavior from managers, sometimes on a daily basis. Shortsighted management decisions, thoughtless actions--even rude behavior--are as commonplace as they are unbearable. Furthermore, they are damaging not just on a personal level, but on the organizational level as well. In When Smart People Work for Dumb Bosses, William and Kathleen Lundin bring corporate stupidity out of the closet.
Through an extensive collection of personal and refreshingly candid interviews with employees at every level, the authors expose a broad range of inflexible, short-sighted, insensitive, and otherwide "dumb" behaviors on the part of management and survey the damage they can have on the people and the organizations they work for, as well as offer solutions for employees to cope. Using the popular co-dependence model to demonstrate why management stupidity is often condoned and even supported, the Lundins provide valuable therapeutic/psychological strategies and suggestions for understanding and dealing with each type of problem in a way that won't cost readers their self-respect, or their job. Milton Moscowitz, co-author of The 100 Best Companies to Work for in America calls it "an inspirational book."

It's a sad fact of life, but no matter what kind of business or institution you work in, as an employee you are often subjected to demoralizing--downright dumb--behavior from managers, sometimes on a daily basis. Shortsighted management decisions, thoughtless actions--even rude behavior--are as commonplace as they are unbearable. Furthermore, they are damaging not just on a personal level, but on the organizational level as well. In When Smart People Work for Dumb Bosses, William and Kathleen Lundin bring corporate stupidity out of the closet.

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Sweet, peppy news reporter Kitty Wong (Yung Hung) sleeps with an oversized Garfield doll. Computer geek Fred Suen (Simon Yam) sleeps with a plaster mannequin of Kitty Wong; and the only way Suen can possess his beloved is to kill her boyfriend. This film is famous for its bad subtitles which include: “I think I have bothered your much time”, “You are celebraty” “You shot my d1cky. You are that cru3l”.