Bøger af Tom Stern

Tom Stern has always been something of a Renaissance man. Living his life moment to moment, reluctant to limit himself, broadening his horizons and enjoying life. Stern's new memoir, Just Lucky I Guess, is a series of short story adventures put into a timeline thereby creating a fascinating and enjoyable book. Stern spent his early childhood on the Jersey Shore, where he got into his share of mischief but also learned important lessons about adulthood. The country went through the Great Depression, but Stern's parents were determined to give their children a decent life. Stern remembers the start of World War II and his father's work as a "spotter" of suspicious planes and ships in the Atlantic. At twenty-two, Stern was invited down to Vero Beach by the Brooklyn Dodgers, got hurt, and was immediately drafted into the Army. Luckily, he was sent to Germany rather than to Korea. While in Germany he decided to pursue a career in showbiz as an actor, which lead to writing, producing, and directing in Hollywood. In a short story format, Stern's book paints a fascinating picture of a life well lived.

A humorous and instructive book on overcoming your fears, increasing your confidence, and having more success in both sales and career satisfaction.

Charleston Sutterfeld does what people do: shows up to work, tends to assigned tasks, avoids conflict and complication. Sure, he occasionally ponders whether a personal greatness might exist somewhere inside of him as anyone, he presumes, might naturally wonder. But his life seldom offers occasion to descend to such introspective depths.Until an innocent oversight brings Charleston face to face with an unexpected bit of information about a man known simply as Mr. Twytharp the revered and reclusive founder of Thundercom Corporation, a company known as the universe's single largest manufacturer of all things material. Housed in a towering 86-floor building, Thundercom has revolutionized business. But as Charleston unwittingly discovers, the lauded humanitarian at the center of the company's success barely resembles in appearance, at least the human beings whose culture he has so advanced.Rather than proving his undoing, this discovery brings about Charleston's inexplicable rise to the top of Thundercom's bizarre ranks. His success requires that he keep from asking one simple question. A question he has heretofore seldom asked. A question that is now proving irrepressible. A question that is deeply threatening to the most powerful man-like thing in the global economy.