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Friendly Fire

The Accidental Shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks over Northern Iraq

By: Scott A. Snook

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Friendly Fire

The Accidental Shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks over Northern Iraq

By: Scott A. Snook

On April 14, 1994, two U.S. Air Force F-15 fighters accidentally shot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopters over Northern Iraq, killing all twenty-six peacekeepers onboard. In response to this disaster the complete array of military and civilian investigative and judicial procedures ran their course. After almost two years of investigation with virtually unlimited resources, no culprit emerged, no bad guy showed himself, no smoking gun was found. This book attempts to make sense of this tragedy--a tragedy that on its surface makes no sense at all. With almost twenty years in uniform and a Ph.D. in organizational behavior, Lieutenant Colonel Snook writes from a unique perspective. A victim of friendly fire himself, he develops individual, group, organizational, and cross-level accounts of the accident and applies a rigorous analysis based on behavioral science theory to account for critical links in the causal chain of events. By explaining separate pieces of the puzzle, and analyzing each at a different level, the author removes much of the mystery surrounding the shootdown. Based on a grounded theory analysis, Snook offers a dynamic, cross-level mechanism he calls "practical drift"--the slow, steady uncoupling of practice from written procedure--to complete his explanation. His conclusion is disturbing. This accident happened because, or perhaps in spite of everyone behaving just the way we would expect them to behave, just the way theory would predict. The shootdown was a normal accident in a highly reliable organization.

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Princeton University Press

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140084097X

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9781400840977

Practical Intelligence in Everyday Life

By: Robert J. Sternberg,George B. Forsythe,Jennifer Hedlund,Joseph A. Horvath,Richard K. Wagner,Wendy M. Williams,Scott A. Snook,Elena Grigorenko

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Practical Intelligence in Everyday Life

By: Robert J. Sternberg,George B. Forsythe,Jennifer Hedlund,Joseph A. Horvath,Richard K. Wagner,Wendy M. Williams,Scott A. Snook,Elena Grigorenko

This path-breaking book reviews psychological research on practical intelligence and describes its importance in everyday life. The authors reveal the importance of tacit knowledge--what we have learned from our own experience, through action. Although it has been seen as an indispensable element of expertise, intelligence researchers have found it difficult to quantify. Based on years of research, Dr. Sternberg and his colleagues have found that tacit knowledge can be quantified and can be taught. This volume thoroughly examines studies of practical intelligence in the United States and in many other parts of the world as well, and for varied occupations, such as management, military leadership, teaching, research, and sales.

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106

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Cambridge University Press

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0521650569

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9780521650564

Purpose, Meaning, and Passion (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

By: Harvard Business Review,Morten T. Hansen,Teresa M. Amabile,Scott A. Snook,Nick Craig

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Purpose, Meaning, and Passion (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

By: Harvard Business Review,Morten T. Hansen,Teresa M. Amabile,Scott A. Snook,Nick Craig

Find your purpose at work. In an ideal world, our work lives would be completely fulfilling and intrinsically motivating. But what if you're stuck in a job and your heart isn't in it anymore? Or what if your company's mission seems unrelated to the work you do day in and day out? This book showcases the power of passion--and how you and your team can find it at work. This volume includes the work of: Morten T. Hansen Teresa M. Amabile Scott A. Snook Nick Craig This collection of articles includes "Finding Meaning at Work, Even When Your Job Is Dull," by Morten Hansen and Dacher Keltner; "What to Do When Your Heart Isn't in Your Work Anymore," by Andy Molinsky; "You Don’t Find Your Purpose--You Build It," by John Coleman; "How to Find Meaning in a Job That Isn't Your True Calling," by Emily Esfahani Smith; "You're Never Done Finding Purpose at Work," by Dan Pontefract; "From Purpose to Impact," by Nick Craig and Scott A. Snook; "Five Questions to Help Your Employees Find Their Inner Purpose," by Kristi Hedges; "How to Make Work More Meaningful for Your Team," by Lewis Garrad and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic; "The Power of Small Wins," by Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer; and "The Founder of TOMS on Reimagining the Company's Mission," by Blake Mycoskie. HOW TO BE HUMAN AT WORK. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

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104

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Harvard Business Press

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1633696286

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9781633696280

Cruisers Handbook of Fishing 2/E

By: Scott Bannerot,Wendy Bannerot

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Cruisers Handbook of Fishing 2/E

By: Scott Bannerot,Wendy Bannerot

Here is the first-ever complete guide to finding, catching, processing, and cooking fish from the decks of a slow-moving cruising sail- or powerboat. Scott and Wendy Bannerot have successfully cruise-fished tropical and temperate seas for more than two decades.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071427880

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9780071427883

South Florida Run

By: Scott A. Smith

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South Florida Run

By: Scott A. Smith

After his father is murdered at the orders of Mafia kingpin Franco Bella, Wyatt Morgan uses the skills learned in the service of his country to seek revenge. With the help of a few friends and dodging the grasp of a dirty cop Wyatt weaves a trail of destruction across the south Florida landscape trying to come face to face with the man who ordered his father’s death. Leading both law enforcement and Bella’s soldiers on a run from the west coast to the east coast of Florida, Wyatt embarks on his quest for revenge using his knowledge of the everglades along with his military training to lead both parties from obscure backcountry towns to the larger cities on a South Florida Run for revenge.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462877249

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9781462877249

The Mushroom Club

By: Andrew Murray Scott

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The Mushroom Club

By: Andrew Murray Scott

Men without women, men without a clue, men loaded to the eyeballs on hallucinogenics.... Three St Andrews University graduates, Victor Emerson, a young Tory monster, Philip Quinn, the psychopathic Trotskyite and Edwards, the original unreliable narrator have only one thing in common; their need to ingest large quantities of magic mushrooms as often as possible. Ten years after graduating with such promise, they are all washed up, all of their schemes have failed. But at last, Emerson has come up with a plan. A crazy, deluded, sociopathic plan, ridiculous, nasty... but a plan nevertheless, that just might make them all rich. A parable of our times...If Hunter S Thompson, Thomas De Quincy and Flann O'Brien could have got together to write a crackpot heist comedy, this would be it...

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Lulu.com

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1847530877

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9781847530875

Dancing on Ice

By: Jeremy Scott

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Dancing on Ice

By: Jeremy Scott

In 1930, charismatic Gino Watkins led a group of fourteen men (including the author’s father) to the Arctic. It was the dawn of commercial air travel, and their goal was to discover an air route between Europe and America. The explorers were courageous and physically strong, but they were unprepared for the hostile conditions they would face over the next year. Learning from their Inuit guides, they hunted for seals and passed the long dark nights of winter as best they could. But for one man, August Courtauld—alone on the ice cap and cut off from his fellow explorers for six long months—it would be an unbelievably harrowing experience. Jeremy Scott paints an enthralling portrait of two lost worlds: the Inuit hunters of the polar regions and the “Brideshead” generation of young Englishmen. His action-packed and lyrical tale is one of triumph and tragedy, where innocence and optimism come face to face with devastating extremes of mental and physical endurance. The storms were a bombardment, an assault on the frail shelter protecting them, a sustained battering on the nerves and mind. . . . They were enduring it together, but what must it be like to suffer it alone? The Eskimos believed white devils whirled and shrieked within the blizzards, but what vile monsters might solitude give birth to in one man alone? Unadmitted and undiscussed, at the back of all their minds crouched the horror that Courtauld might go mad.

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Old Street Publishing

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1905847505

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9781905847501

Friendly Fire

The Accidental Shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks over Northern Iraq

By: Scott A. Snook

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The Accidental Shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks over Northern Iraq

By: Scott A. Snook

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Friendly Fire

Friendly Fire

Practical Intelligence in Everyday Life

Practical Intelligence in Everyday Life

Purpose, Meaning, and Passion (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

Purpose, Meaning, and Passion (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

Cruisers Handbook of Fishing 2/E

Cruisers Handbook of Fishing 2/E

South Florida Run

South Florida Run

The Mushroom Club

The Mushroom Club

Dancing on Ice

Dancing on Ice

Friendly Fire

Friendly Fire

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