Comments on: Reading – For CEOs Only https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/reading-for-ceos-only/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reading-for-ceos-only 53 years and 204,000 miles of business, CEO, leadership, startup, political, military wisdom Wed, 07 Mar 2018 04:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.11 By: Wes Ramsay https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/reading-for-ceos-only/#comment-4413 Wed, 07 Mar 2018 04:37:00 +0000 http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=6256#comment-4413 Thank The Boss, BRC. Noting that from 1918 onward, every time the politicians let our military disintegrate, wars begin and millions die.

]]> By: sigmaalgebra https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/reading-for-ceos-only/#comment-4406 Sun, 25 Feb 2018 01:34:00 +0000 http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=6256#comment-4406 Good. You told me a lot about how Smith did his work. I tried to find out how Patton did his work in WWII, saw the movie, saw a film documentary, read a book, read lots of Web sites, tried to get details on his battles in North Africa, Sicily, France, and crossing into Germany, what other US generals did wrong in Italy, but still never got any good details that could borrow on how the heck he did his work except his scowling. You told more about Smith than I was able to get on Patton. No doubt the book says still more.

Once at Christmas at the family farm of my wife, I walked about 100 yards from the house to an outbuilding. IIRC, it was -40 F with maybe 30 MPH winds. That was cold enough to be scary within just a few minutes. How anyone could fight or even live in such weather is nearly beyond me — lots of special clothing and equipment. I wouldn’t have any confidence even that an M1 rifle would even fire. That the mechanism would work at that temperature would surprise me. Live in such temperatures? Heck, all food and water would freeze in minutes.

Actually, the Indiana farming country was good that day! There were lots of volunteers on snowmobiles and really special clothes, amazing, thick gloves nearly to the elbows, riding around as 30 MPH or some such visiting houses to see if everyone was okay.

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