Knowledge Network: Thunderbird Bookshelf

The book makes the case that many Americans do not yet fully appreciate the fact that the economic game and the associated stakes have substantially changed over the past couple of years. LIFE Expectancy tells the truth about the financial challenges facing Americans now and in the decades ahead and makes the case for a new form of self-reliance as the only way to get through. The book demonstrates why it is mandatory to get started now and answers the question, “How can I be more proactive in the creation of the rest of my life?” LIFE Expectancy reveals the power and vitality that result from changing your game and why it is never too late-or too early- to do it. As Mr. Keiper says, “This book is for those who have decided that the continuation of the status quo cannot or will not be tolerated.”
Title: LIFE Expectancy: It’s Never Too Late to Change Your Game
Author: William Keiper ‘80 has served as Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, President and as a trusted advisor for a variety of public and private companies. He serves committed individuals, company owners, executives, investors and others in urgently resolving their most challenging issues. In situations where the status quo will no longer be tolerated, he will accelerate the change process through rapid assessment and the speed and urgency of implementation.
He earned a business degree with honors from Eastern Illinois University, a law degree from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, and a Master’s degree from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. The author can be engaged to present the “live version” of LIFE Expectancy. For details and scheduling, please contact LE@firstglobalpartners.com.
Publisher: FirstGlobal Partners LLC; 1st edition (February 15, 2012)
Description: Paperback, 262 pages / Kindle Edition, 485 KB
Price: Paperback: $15.95 / Kindle Edition: $9.95
ISBN: 978-0984989300
Information: Paperback: www.amazon.com Kindle Edition: www.amazon.com

Posing as recreational birders, a group of former U.S. Special Forces enter Mexico to capture and extricate six Mexican fugitives who murdered six innocent citizens in Santa Barbara then fled to Mexico with impunity, untouchable …until now.
Highly experienced in reconnaissance and stealth the undercover operatives rely on spy craft and cunning to track the FTM fugitives into the most unforgiving locations for challenging extractions, defying all odds of detection. Their modus operandi mantra: If no one knew you were there, then it didn’t happen.
A conspiracy is uncovered between the Vatican and the Mexican government which threatens U.S. border security resulting in a familial Federal Police Investigator’s brutal murder coldly avenged at the highest level of legal authority. Amazing assortments of birds play more than a fly on role in this original, action packed adventure. (This story was inspired by true events.)
Title: Fled to Mexico: If No One Knows They Were There Then it Didn’t Happen
Author: Stephen Ringler ‘69 has a Masters Degree in International Business from Thunderbird School of Global Managament with a fluency in Spanish and specialty in Latin America. He lived in Puerto Rico and Venezuela working extensively throughout South America. He resided in Mexico for 10 years operating in all 32 states developing an intimate knowledge of the country and culture. Ringler has authored Discovering Mexico City, published in 1981 in Spanish by Editorial Novaro. (Discubriendo La Ciudad de Mexico) and The Dictionary of Cinema Quotations from Filmmakers and Critics published in 2000 by McFarland Publishing, Jefferson, N.C. (www.mcfarlandpub.com.)
Publisher: iUniverse (February 22, 2012)
Description: Hardcover & Paperback, 400 pages
ISBN: 978-1469738222
Information: www.amazon.com www.barnesandnoble.com

“A thoughtful, instructive text on the challenges of leadership in the 21st century, and the bold perspective we must adopt in order to create a future of shared opportunities and shared responsibilities.” – Former U.S. President Bill Clinton

What makes being a global business leader today such a complex task? It’s more than mastering your knowledge of various geographies and cultures, though that is essential. But to succeed, you must also master the complex mind-set and competencies needed to lead in today’s fully globalized world. Not an easy assignment. Enter Ángel Cabrera, Ph.D., and Gregory Unruh, Ph.D. In Being Global, they pull from their extensive experience as well as research they conducted at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, which has been cited by the Financial Times, U.S. News and World Report, and The Economist for its authority on global business. In Being Global, Cabrera and Unruh define a new context for global leadership, vividly illustrating both the challenges and the opportunities facing today’s executives. How can you be effective? What new skills must you learn in order to be successful? What do international teams do to stay connected while still producing results on a regional scale?

Title: Being Global: How to Think, Act and Lead in a Transformed World
Authors: Ángel Cabrera, Ph.D., has served as Thunderbird School of Global Management president since 2004. He will start in his new capacity as president of George Mason University on July 1, 2012. Gregory Unruh, Ph.D., is a professor of international business at Thunderbird and the director of the school’s Lincoln Center for Ethics in Global Management.
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press (April 17, 2012)
Description: Hardcover, 224 pages
Price: $30
ISBN: 978-1422183229
Information: www.amazon.com and www.BeingGlobalBook.com.

Like its predecessor “Multiple Leadership Intelligence” this book is loaded with practical, easy to apply techniques using powerful ‘whole brain thinking’ to increase leadership confidence and solve daily challenges. Each solution is designed to help you quickly learn, increase confidence and strengthen your leadership skills. This book addresses the following ‘whole brain’ solutions: Negotiation Essentials, Powerful Presentations, Professional Emails, Delegate to Motivate Skills, Effective Time Management, Multi-cultural Intelligence, Managing Gen ‘X’, ‘Y’, and Effective Meetings.
Published: 2011
Title: 8 Smart Leadership Solutions
Author: Robert Edmonson ‘96 is CEO of Paradigm21 an award-winning HR Consultancy and has 20+ years of coaching, consulting and ‘C’ level executive experience. He is an internationally recognized executive coach, corporate trainer, management consultant, author of popular leadership books, published business and journal articles, frequent speaker to organizations and adjunct university professor for well-known universities. He has lived and worked in Europe, China, Hong Kong, United States and Australia. Price: Hard Copy: $19.99 (plus shipping) / e-book: $9.99
ISBN: 978-9888122615
Information: http://www.paradigm21.com/book3/book3.html

This book is a well-structured, virtual warehouse of easy to understand, practical, straightforward approaches using powerful ‘whole brain thinking’ to help business people successfully manage daily challenges. Each chapter is designed to help you learn, increase confidence and strengthen your leadership skills by learning these 7 whole brain intelligences: Inspiring & Motivating, Decision-making, Recruiting the Best, Influence and Persuasion, Salesmanship and Organizational Change. With dedication, commitment and practice, these innovative leadership intelligences will help you transform your skills and leadership style.
Published: 2010
Title: Multiple Leadership Intelligence
Author: Robert Edmonson ‘96 is CEO of Paradigm21 an award-winning HR Consultancy and has 20+ years of coaching, consulting and ‘C’ level executive experience. He is an internationally recognized executive coach, corporate trainer, management consultant, author of popular leadership books, published business and journal articles, frequent speaker to organizations and adjunct university professor for well-known universities. He has lived and worked in Europe, China, Hong Kong, United States and Australia. Price: Hard Copy: $19.99 (plus shipping) / e-book: $9.99
ISBN: 978-9888072958
Information: http://www.paradigm21.com/book2/book2.html

Any Questions? is designed to be an executive primer that broadly portrays Business Transformation, based on Sustainability opportunities executed in tandem with a Lean Six Sigma. It is a leadership primer for Owners and CEOs who seek business knowledge inherent in Sustainability and Lean Six Sigma transformation. The book has been organized to be a quick reference, to save you time for leadership duties. This book is broken down from the Strategic viewpoint, to the granular level of the Lean Six Sigma methodology. Each section of the book outlines the framework of Executive Commitment, MetaPlanning, Transformation, Realization and Innovation. Within each chapter, a summary is included and outlines key points that are topics for discussion.
Title: Any Questions?
Author: Ralph Jarvis ‘80 is a management consultant, author, futurist and speaker. His company, Jarvis Business Solutions, is a certified Lean Six Sigma practice and is a business transformation consultancy. It is focused on quality initiatives aligning Business and IT strategies, improving processes, and measuring quality to objectives in order to streamline and improve its client’s competitive edge. As a Lean Six Sigma Practitioner and Business Consultant, he brings more than 30 years of International Business and IT experience that includes engagements with a variety of Fortune 500 companies, governments, public sector agencies, as well as, not-for-profit organizations. Ralph Jarvis is a Texas Tech alumnus and received his bachelor’s degree in Business Management with a minor in Computer Science and Statistics. He completed his Global MBA, in Finance, at Thunderbird School of Global Management and completed his second Masters degree at the University of Dallas, in MIS. There, he graduated with Highest Honors and was the sole MIS graduate with that distinction. He is also a Black Belt, certified in Lean Six Sigma methodology, has extensive experience with Just-In-Time, Quality Circles, TQM: QMS, ISO 9000 and ISO 9002 quality programs. He has had direct client experience as a Senior Consultant, Project Manager, Business Planner and Performance SME in transforming business processes within those methodologies. With over 30 years of Transformation experience with almost 10 years experience at EDS as a Senior Consultant, Project Manager and Technical Consultant. He retired and establish Jarvis Business Solutions, LLC and is now its Managing Principal. Jarvis Business Solutions is a certified Lean Six Sigma practice and is a Business Transformation consultancy focused on Quality initiatives aligning Business and IT strategies, improving processes, and measuring Quality to objectives in order to streamline and improve its client’s competitive edge. With over 15 years of direct consulting experience, JBS listens to the Client’s current issues and channels their vision into an enhanced future state. Transformation is a collaboration of all stakeholders: external consultants, executives, subject matter experts, employees, Customers and Suppliers.
Publisher: CreateSpace (September 9, 2011)
Price: $27.95 Paperback / $9.99 Kindle
Description: Paperback, 294 pages
ISBN: 978-1461072829
Information:Paperback: www.amazon.com Kindle:www.amazon.com

Dubbed “sheer genius” by New York Times bestselling author, Stephen M.R. Covey, RESUMES ARE DEAD is not for the faint of heart. This ebook tackles one of life’s most compelling choices: money or meaning? The audio is relevant, timely and career-critical. Learn how to design a career that supports your quest for both money and meaning—providing you the freedom to pursue your dreams and live your ideal lifestyle.
If you or someone you know are looking to find employment, advance your career, or start something a little more meaningful in your life, then the seven ideas found in RESUMES ARE DEAD (that you can begin implementing immediately) will inspire you.
This is career development reworked, unconventional and results-driven. Whether you’re retired, in the middle of your career, fresh out of college, or have been hit hard by economic crisis, RESUMES ARE DEAD is chock-full of powerful, raw principles that will help you find your footing, contribute to the world in meaningful ways, and simultaneously create your ideal lifestyle.
Title: Résumés Are Dead and What to Do About It
Author: Richie Norton ‘13 was named one of Hawaii’s Top Forty Under 40 “best and brightest young businesspersons” by Pacific Business News at age 29. He is a ChangeAid award winner for outstanding accomplishment in international development, international relations, humanitarian aid and academic achievement. He is also a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.
Richie is the CEO of Global Consulting Circle, a boutique international business development consultancy. He is the author of the upcoming book, The Power of Starting Something Stupid (Shadow Mountain Publishing), as well as the popular eBook and audio book, Resumes Are Dead and What to Do About It (Shadow Mountain Publishing).
He is a sought after speaker and consultant for the corporate growth and personal development industries. Richie has shared the stage with bestselling authors such as Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen M.R. Covey, author of The Speed of Trust and Kevin Rollins, former CEO of Dell Computers.
Publisher: Deseret Book Company (February 28, 2012)
Price: $7.99
Description: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B007F5LHN2
Information: www.amazon.com

Fifty thought-provoking haiku, gathered from a lifetime of encounters with nature. Each captures a mystical moment in which the commonplace takes on an added dimension of meaning. Illustrated with artwork by the author.
Title: 50 Epiphanies
Author: Gary Tillery ‘73 is also the author of The Cynical Idealist: A Spiritual Biography of John Lennon, published by Quest Books in 2009, and Working Class Mystic: A Spiritual Biography of George Harrison, published by Quest in 2011. Other writings include Darkling Plain, a collection of short stories set in Vietnam, and two comic detective novels, Death, Be Not Loud and To an Aesthete Dying Young. Tillery is also an artist. His most prominent work is featured in Chicago’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Wabash Plaza. He sculpted the bust of Steve Allen for the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood. He also has created such works as T. Denny Sanford at the Sanford Children’s Hospital in Sioux City, South Dakota, and Luis Aparicio at U. S. Cellular Field (both through the Rotblatt-Amrany Studio), as well as They Also Serve—a tribute to POWs, now in the permanent collection of the National Veterans Art Museum. He resides in the Chicago area with his wife and son.
Publisher: CreateSpace (February 8, 2012)
Price: $12.00
Description: Paperback, 74 pages
ISBN: 978-1470032142
Information: www.amazon.com

The 2012 through 2020 period presents companies and investors with unprecedented opportunities to create wealth. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which contains provisions pioneered by both Republicans and Democrats, is the single largest technology stimulus, innovation implementation and development, job creation, and waste elimination legislation in the history of the United States (U.S.). PPACA is capitalizing on four major trends: 1) increasing demand, 2) new enabling technologies, 3) innovation, and 4) an imperative to contain increasing healthcare costs. If not contained, healthcare expenditures will decrease American’s standard of living and ability to compete on a global basis. Implementation will result in market driven revolutionary change throughout every segment of the $2.6 trillion (17.3% of the U.S. 2010 gross domestic product, GDP) U.S. healthcare system (slightly larger than the GDP of the U.K.). It will cause a cultural shift within healthcare which will affect how each of the 17 million U.S. healthcare workers view and do their jobs. In the process, it will decrease inefficiencies/waste and create significant corporate and personal wealth. This book presents the major enabling technologies and innovations and the reasons why passage of PPACA and related legislation and regulation was and will be needed. The reader will also get insights relative to the respective industry strategic drivers and their implications for each of the major industry segments. While not designed to recommend investments, the leading companies in each major U.S. healthcare industry segment are listed.
Title: Multi-Trillion Dollar U.S. Healthcare To 2020 Gold Rush
Author: Edmund L. Valentine ‘74 has over 27 years of healthcare industry experience. He has been the editor of multiple editions of MMC International’s Trends Shaping U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry Strategies reports as well as therapeutic area reviews. Valentine is Chairman and C.E.O. of MMC International, a strategy, general management, business development, marketing and technology assessment advisory firm primarily focusing on the global healthcare industry. He is a recognized authority on the trends shaping the U.S. healthcare system.
Publisher: MMC International Publishing (February 2, 2012)
Price: $149.95
Description: Paperback, 152 pages
ISBN: 978-0984047802
Information: www.amazon.com

Amid the mystery of Colombia’s dense forest, two boys find that life can be far more challenging than it seems. Eduardo is the son of a maid working on the estate of a wealthy Irish immigrant. The estate owner’s son and Eduardo often play together. One day, playing in the forest, they discover a cave where an old woman presents an emerald amulet and explains its mystical powers. After an unfortunate accident, Eduardo survives the other boy and learns that the protective powers of the amulet are both his birthright and his shield. Throughout his young life, Eduardo struggles to discover what he is meant to be and do. Supported by the owner of the estate, he attends a university and prepares for a life of success and wealth. Later he decides that his love of learning is more important than pursuit of money and power. More than once, he faces life-threatening situations where the protective power of the amulet saves his life. Along the way, he learns how difficult some decisions can be, especially when one person’s life must be weighed against another’s. The author J.P. Cunningham weaves a tale where magic and reality blend, leaving the reader to wonder where one world begins and the other ends. The Emerald Amulet is, above all, a love story…a story about the unswerving loyalty of one young man to those he loves most.
Title: The Emerald Amulet
Author: J.P. Cunningham ‘82, originally from a small town in Northeastern Arkansas, (where his father’s family had lived since 1873, and his mother’s family had lived since the 1840’s),is fluent in Spanish and worked for years in the field of international sales, traveling widely throughout Latin America. Prior to that, he worked as an aide for the United States Congress specializing in foreign affairs. With one graduate degree in political science and another in international business, he now lives in northwestern Georgia where he works writing fiction.
Publisher: CreateSpace (December 20, 2011)
Price: $16.00
Description: Paperback, 184 pages
ISBN: 978-1466392786
Information: www.amazon.com