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Open the Megaproject Black Box and Avoid Billion-Dollar Disasters
Despite decades of analysis, reports, methodologies and experts, major and megaprojects ($1 billion plus) and change initiatives keep failing, why?
Gorilla in the Cockpit is a revolutionary way to understand project failures. It reveals the hidden drivers of project crashes. The root causes cannot be found in traditional project management books. They are neither technical nor financial....
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The amygdala is the brain structure responsible for emotions, memory and decision making. Brain damage and bad culture can make it difficult to control one's amygdala. Crocodile in the Cockpit explains human behavior in the terms understandable by both children and adults.
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"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard your flight. As you step onto my aircraft, take a quick glance into the cockpit. Yep, that's me sitting in the captains' seat, and that's my first officer laughing about how he accidentally locked himself out of his hotel room. Naked. Again. We're both a little ripe from flying for the last five days, but we're still smiling because we have spent years and thousands of hours training and living an uncommon lifestyle...
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I could see a carpet of twinkling lights from the ack ack all along the rail sidings which bordered the canal. I dove onto these with my cannons going. Then suddenly, when the attention of all the guns turned on me, I realized how foolhardy I was being. I ran the guns along the row of rail trucks-opened the throttle wide and pulled straight up for the clouds-with tracers crossing in front and on all sides of the plane. Ron Pottinger started the war...
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Stanisław Skalski was the top Polish fighter ace and the first Allied fighter ace of World War II. His combat career began on the war's very first day, September 1, 1939, and within two weeks, Skalski had achieved ace status, with six German kills to his credit. After Poland's surrender, Skalski and other Polish pilots ended up in England to join the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain. He later took command of the Polish Fighting Team,...
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For anyone who has ever wondered what it's like to fly the SR-71 on a secret Mach 3 reconnaissance mission, this book has the answer. Completely redesigned and updated with photos from author Colonel Richard H. Graham's personal archive, as well as a new introduction, Flying the SR-71 Blackbird details what an SR-71 mission entailed, from planning to donning a pressure suit to returning to base.
The Lockheed SR-71, unofficially known as the Blackbird,...
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I could see a carpet of twinkling lights from the ack ack all along the rail sidings which bordered the canal. I dove onto these with my cannons going. Then suddenly, when the attention of all the guns turned on me, I realized how foolhardy I was being. I ran the guns along the row of rail trucks-opened the throttle wide and pulled straight up for the clouds-with tracers crossing in front and on all sides of the plane.
Ron Pottinger started the war...
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Renowned for decades as the world's foremost railroad artist, Howard Fogg's career spanned half a century and some twelve hundred paintings.
However, while his art has been welcomed for decades, few of his enthusiasts have been aware of his prior career, as a fighter pilot in the U.S. 8th Air Force during World War II. Fortunately, Fogg left behind a detailed diary of his experiences, which illuminate this brief but exciting aspect of his life, as...
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During the six years of the Second World War, Canadian fighter pilots flew and fought with great distinction in every theatre of war to which Commonwealth fighter forces were deployed. All the Fine Young Eagles captures the spirit and magnitude of the Canadian contribution, which began in Europe's Low Countries in 1940 and ended among the Japanese Home Islands in 1945. In keeping with the country's developing autonomy, Canadians served in both RAF...
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Journalist Barry C. Lynn paints an alarming picture: most of our public debates about globalization, competitiveness, creative destruction, and risky finance are nothing more than a cover for the widespread consolidation of power in nearly every sector of the American economy.
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America's fighting jets volume disc 1
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Topics Entertainment
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c2007
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"Climb in the cockpit of an F-15 Eagle or an F-16 Viper and fly off into the wild blue yonder. Experience the world of the US Air Force combat pilot as you fly high over the arctic tundra monitoring Russian bombers and ride along in the cockpit over the sweltering desert of Iraq. Filled with wing to wing flying, strike missions and intensive training, you'll see what it's really like to be a sky warrior."--Container.
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Kanopy Streaming
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2015.
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As this program shows us, recreation can be educational, a real adventure, and a whole lot of fun! California has its Tournament of Roses Parade; Colorado has its Cardboard Downhill Derby, where recycled cardboard and a lot of creativity make for a ton of fun down a ski slope. Next the views are incredible as we soar the skies at the Telluride World Hang Gliding Championship. Next, at the Bruce Ford Rodeo School, we see what it takes to learn how...
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[2013]
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Bill Meechum is one of nature's hard cases, an ace marine fighter pilot so adept at his lethal trade that they call him The Great Santini. But now it's peacetime, 1962. More at home playing 'top gun' in the cockpit than playing father in his own living room, he's become that most useless of all figures: a warrior without a war. Based on Pat Conroy's best-selling autobiographical novel, Meechum's battleground is the family home, with his objective...
15) After Earth
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2013
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Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his son, Kitai. When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai's craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon.
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