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Your Job Survival Guide: A Manual for Thriving in Change
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Your Job Survival Guide: A Manual for Thriving in Change

by Ph.D. Gregory Shea, Robert Gunther
August 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
272 pages
4h 54m
English
Pearson
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Chapter 1. An Eskimo on the Titanic

 

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.

 
 --Peter Drucker

The Titanic was unsinkable. From the captain on the bridge to the humble sailor stoking the fires of the five boilers in the engine room, every crewmember knew that if he just did his job, the future was secure. Then the iceberg happened. On Sunday, April 14, 1912, at 11:45 p.m., the Titanic struck a jagged chunk of ice rising 50 to 100 feet above the water. The $7.5 million ship (in 1912 dollars!) broke apart and sank in 2 hours and 40 minutes. No one was secure. Passengers and crew raced to lifeboats or leapt overboard.

When the tragedy struck, the skills and equipment onboard were hopelessly ...

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