DJP Update 4-28-2011 ON LEADERSHIP 2nd edition big day in bookstores May 5; Available at Amazon May 1
Friends, colleagues, and future book buyers:
If you want to lend a helping hand to try and propel the book up in the charts, order your copy now and encourage organizations to order copies for the members.
After all, friends help friends! Important to time the purchases the first week the book is available to get a high number of purchases in that week to rise on the charts.
The book defines true leadership. And this 2nd edition is specific for America: Gulf oil spill, emerging leaders, how to fix Congress, true health system reform, ending the debt crisis, and how to avoid entanglement in never-ending wars. How do we decide to go to war? What are the criteria? Do we apply equally for all nations? When in war, is not the purpose to win?
Yes, the 2nd edition has TWO new chapters, 17 & 18. Both deal with current events. No wishy-washy analysis. Advocates straight talk from politicians.
Here is a sample from chapter 18 entitled EMERGING LEADERS IN A TIME OF CRISIS
The chapter starts off with a quote:
It is a time, in short, for a new generation of leadership — new men to cope with new problems and new opportunities.
–Senator John F. Kennedy, July 15, 1960, on accepting the Democratic Party nomination for presidency
Here is the first paragraph of that chapter 18:
Crises abound. A health care bill passed in Congress with brute force by the Administration and Democratic-controlled Congress: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (PPACA). The bill had more than 2,400 pages. Most of the partisans who voted “yes” did not even read it. Remember Nancy Pelosi’s words: “But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.”
References are given for quotes and links to videos on the Internet are in the book so you can see and hear the quotes in context.
Later in the chapter, the discussion on straight talk:
It is a war on terror. It is not an “overseas contingency operation.” Let us stop the Humpty-Dumpty changing of the meanings of words or using euphemisms. Today we have the Federal Reserve Board speaking of “quantitative easing.” Does that mean print more paper money and devalue our savings? History might suggest that this is a road to disaster.
That chapter ends with LESSONS LEARNED.
Here are two of the seven.
4- True leaders tell the truth and don’t demonize others falsely.
7- Don’t let opportunistic politicians destroy our liberty and freedoms; we have the power to vote them out of office.
And yes, Chapter 18, in addition to highlighting emerging leaders, does more discussion of PPACA including the quotes from our President of the USA claiming that surgeons have no incentive to save a person’s leg because surgeons get paid $30,000 to $50,000 per leg amputation. I refute that with the letter sent from the American College of Surgeons stating the actual payment and the ACS letter also said the comment was “ill-informed and dangerous.” Again, all citations given to comments and letters and videos.
So if you want to share a view on liberty and leadership, give the books as gifts. And it makes a wonderful gift for those in the political spectrum who favor more government control: Saves your breath and time trying to convert them and maybe they will convert after reading. Of course, you might cause them to get angry by such a gift!
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Go to this link below to order at AMAZON. If you call Barnes & Noble or other bookseller, be sure to tell them it is the 2nd edition with the Paperback ISBN of 978-1-61608-231-4
or just go to Amazon.com and put in “Palmisano” and “On Leadership”. Then click on image of 2nd edition to go to a page with more details.
On Leadership: Essential Principles for Business, Political, and Personal Success
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And here are links to the press release of Skyhorse Publishing as well as larger photos of the front and back cover. Interviews are coming in and today I got invited to do a national TV show in mid-May as part of a political panel. More details later.
Cover and back cover: http://onleadership.us/media/pdfs/Cover_jacket_of_On_Leadership_2nd_edition_in_Paperback_final.pdf
Press release: http://onleadership.us/media/pdfs/2nd_Edition-Press_Release.pdf
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Thanks for your time, indulgence (especially for this email), and friendship over the years! We can win the battle for ethical science-based Medicine with the patient in control and the doctor as trusted advisor. The pursuit of excellence can be a lonely path but we shall overcome. Remember George Washington lost EVERY BATTLE in the Revolutionary War until he crossed the Delaware into Trenton on Christmas Day. Do your homework, have courage, and don’t give up! The problems today go beyond Medicine. We have a Nation to save.
Stay well.
Donald
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