Tag Archives: logistics

She Put Your Books Out On The Sidewalk

Posted on November 22, 2016 by nathanalbright

It should come as no surprise to anyone who knows me or knows what I write that I read and review a lot of books.  These books come from a variety of sources.  About once a week I travel to … Continue reading →

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So Don’t Yield To The Fortune You May Sometimes See As Fate

Posted on November 11, 2016 by nathanalbright

Life is not always easy being a node.  For a variety of reasons, I tend to be the sort of person who ends up being placed in the position of communicating matters to other people that others simply do not … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Mongols, Huns & Vikings

Posted on September 26, 2016 by nathanalbright

Mongols, Huns & Vikings, by Hugh Kennedy One might not immediately see the contemporary relevance of exploring the history of the Huns, Arabs & Turks, Mongols, and Vikings, of which only the non-Muslim groups are included in the book’s title, likely … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Who Did It First?: Great Pop Cover Songs And Their Original Artists

Posted on September 24, 2016 by nathanalbright

Who Did It First?:  Great Pop Cover Songs And Their Original Artists, by Bob Leszczak I would like to begin this review with a bit of an apology.  As a music historian with a popular series on artists not inducted … Continue reading →

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A Modest Proposal For The Development Of A Trans-Siberian Railroad Tour

Posted on September 4, 2016 by nathanalbright

I first became familiar with the Trans-Siberian Railroad because of two different contexts.  First, my reading of Russian history as it related to World War II and the Russo-Japanese War discussed the difficulties that Russians had in moving men and … Continue reading →

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Medieval Management By Wandering Around

Posted on July 25, 2016 by nathanalbright

Largely because there is a widespread chronological prejudice and a lack of historical awareness on the part of many management theorists, Management By Walking Around is thought as a contemporary phenomenon.  Yet management by walking around is an exceedingly old … Continue reading →

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Book Review: McAllister Towing: 150 Years of Family Business

Posted on March 27, 2016 by nathanalbright

McAllister Towing: 150 Years Of Family Business, by Stephenie Hollyman [Note: This book was provided free of charge by Carpe Diem Books in exchange for an honest review.] As an occasional reader of books on corporate history [1], I am … Continue reading →

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What Makes A Friday Good?

Posted on March 26, 2016 by nathanalbright

Today, for the first time in my entire working life, I received as a paid holiday from work Good Friday. Never one to look a gift horse in the mouth, I pondered how to make this day as productive as … Continue reading →

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The Kindly Sea

Posted on March 25, 2016 by nathanalbright

We who live in the contemporary world are often tempted to think that the pervasive mood of heavy irony that characterizes our time is something new to us, but such thoughts tend to demonstrate a lack of awareness of human … Continue reading →

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Book Review: How The North Won

Posted on March 14, 2016 by nathanalbright

How The North Won: A Military History Of The Civil War, by Herman Hattaway & Archer Jones Undaunted by the book’s more than 700 pages of main text and explanatory and statistical appendices, which make use of fundamental insights about … Continue reading →

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