The Corporate Warrior

You make critical strategic and leadership decisions in real-time. You need clear, concise, timely information to meet goals, improve performance, and increase profitability. With threats, technology, and competition changing the game at cyber-speed you, as a corporate leader and strategist, are constantly faced with life-or-death business challenges. Leading international military strategists who have learned survival lessons the hard way on the front lines and yet emerged victoriously can be your guides to winning strategies. The Corporate Warrior is a practical book loaded with direct, actionable strategies. Thanks to James Farwell's direct relationships and experiences working with these well-known military leaders, you will learn powerful strategies and tactics to enable your enterprise to confront insurmountable challenges and conquer competition while winning valuable customer recognition and support for your brand!

The Corporate Warrior student version is a true story about a young man who grew up in South Florida through floods, hurricanes, riots and other adventures that molded him into the person he became in the corporate world for 36 years. He was a street fighter in the combat zone amid adversity. It involves real life situations, out of the box solutions, development, advancement, coping and survival amid hurricanes, riots, murders, mayhem involving actors, politicians and unordinary people. The goal of the book is to inspire, motivate and provoke discussion through a series of topics associated with the book. You will see the difference between a leader and a manager in the course of reading the book. This will be a learning experience that will give students insight into the real business world. It will let them see how personal ownership of their goals, actions, reactions and roles is turning their "job" into a career!

The intriguing, behind-the-scenes story of how major American corporations like Coca-Cola, General Motors, People Express, CNN, and others have successfully applied combat strategies in the business world.

This book is for the corporate warrior who struggles with work life balance and is teetering on the edge of burnout. You will see what’s possible to create a more balanced and fulfilled life in the same currently-stressful 24 hours. You can be brilliant at your job and still have time to chill out and thoroughly enjoy every precious moment of your life. You’ll move out of overwhelm, stress and burnout into confidence, excitement and deep personal fulfillment as you discover how to: Make powerful choices that allow you to experience more satisfaction in every area of your life. Increase your effectiveness at work with ease and authority. Design and direct your life so your work and your personal life complement rather than compete with each other. Experience the joy and efficiency of letting how you feel dictate what you choose to do. Show up authentically without excuses or hiding. Stop waiting for that magical “when” and start living your most amazing life right now. You can change nothing and keep wasting time until you are officially part of Team Burnout, or you can choose to thrive now and create the life you love!

Martin Iannelli had risen from poor Italian immigrant roots to become president of Cole Motors. He has earned the envy and admiration of family, colleagues and competitors in the process. But now his impossible dream is on the verge of turning into an executive nightmare.

Some have claimed that "War is too important to be left to the generals," but P. W. Singer asks "What about the business executives?" Breaking out of the guns-for-hire mold of traditional mercenaries, corporations now sell skills and services that until recently only state militaries possessed. Their products range from trained commando teams to strategic advice from generals. This new "Privatized Military Industry" encompasses hundreds of companies, thousands of employees, and billions of dollars in revenue. Whether as proxies or suppliers, such firms have participated in wars in Africa, Asia, the Balkans, and Latin America. More recently, they have become a key element in U.S. military operations. Private corporations working for profit now sway the course of national and international conflict, but the consequences have been little explored. In this book, Singer provides the first account of the military services industry and its broader implications. Corporate Warriors includes a description of how the business works, as well as portraits of each of the basic types of companies: military providers that offer troops for tactical operations; military consultants that supply expert advice and training; and military support companies that sell logistics, intelligence, and engineering. In an updated edition of P. W. Singer's classic account of the military services industry and its broader implications, the author describes the continuing importance of that industry in the Iraq War. This conflict has amply borne out Singer's argument that the privatization of warfare allows startling new capabilities and efficiencies in the ways that war is carried out. At the same time, however, Singer finds that the introduction of the profit motive onto the battlefield raises troubling questions—for democracy, for ethics, for management, for human rights, and for national security.

Some have claimed that "War is too important to be left to the generals," but P. W. Singer asks "What about the business executives?" Breaking out of the guns-for-hire mold of traditional mercenaries, corporations now sell skills and services that until recently only state militaries possessed. Their products range from trained commando teams to strategic advice from generals. This new "Privatized Military Industry" encompasses hundreds of companies, thousands of employees, and billions of dollars in revenue. Whether as proxies or suppliers, such firms have participated in wars in Africa, Asia, the Balkans, and Latin America. More recently, they have become a key element in U.S. military operations. Private corporations working for profit now sway the course of national and international conflict, but the consequences have been little explored. In this book, Singer provides the first account of the military services industry and its broader implications. Corporate Warriors includes a description of how the business works, as well as portraits of each of the basic types of companies: military providers that offer troops for tactical operations; military consultants that supply expert advice and training; and military support companies that sell logistics, intelligence, and engineering. In an updated edition of P. W. Singer's classic account of the military services industry and its broader implications, the author describes the continuing importance of that industry in the Iraq War. This conflict has amply borne out Singer's argument that the privatization of warfare allows startling new capabilities and efficiencies in the ways that war is carried out. At the same time, however, Singer finds that the introduction of the profit motive onto the battlefield raises troubling questions--for democracy, for ethics, for management, for human rights, and for national security.