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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 6. Scouting and Portaging: Set Your Own Course

 

Few other sports require the processing of so much data so fast. Survival depends on split-second decisions, both reflexive and deliberate—and not just one or two in a drop, but continuously, in a dynamic flow of constant recalibration. One mistake in the thousands of moves in a single day—going a foot too far to the left, or getting thumped off line at the wrong moment—and your life may end.[1]

 
 --Peter Heller, Outside magazine, on the descent of Tibet’s Upper Tsangpo Gorge

On the tenth day of an historic first run down the menacing Upper Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet in 2002, kayaker Johnnie Kern was driving into a “must-make” ferry—paddling upstream across the current to a safe haven behind a ...

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