Timely book read given the recent COVID-19 outbreak, I was first interested in reading The Hot Zone when I say the author Richard Preston speak at the annual American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene conference last November. The book documents the first ever cases of outbreaks of the Ebola family of viruses, including Marburg,…
Month: February 2020
The Leadership Compass – How to adapt your leadership capabilities
We’ve all experienced the pain of sitting through a monotonous, unproductive meeting. Or listened to a presentation that is irrelevant to the greater mission of the group. Sometimes it can be very frustrating having to communicate with certain individuals at work. “Why can’t they ever do anything right?” “What’s taking them so long to get…
Book Review: Blitzed – Drugs in the Third Reich, by Norman Ohler (2017)
Many of us know about Germany’s massively effective Blitzkrieg operational approach in the beginning of WW2. For instance, it only took the Nazis 6 weeks to force France – a vastly superior army – to its knees and surrender. In Blitzed, Norman Ohler presents a unique perspective to this strategy: the influence of methamphetamines, heroin,…