Word: instincts
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...psychopathic streak in men of otherwise normal behavior and impulses. When a soldier is fighting guerrillas, he can often feel like a helpless victim. I imagine that must be especially true in Iraq with these roadside bombs. After a while, that's got to bring out a killer instinct in even the best troops. And soldiers in combat get very close to one another. That's one of the saving graces of battle, but it can work against you if the loss of a beloved comrade drives a soldier to go over the edge and seek revenge...
...keep himself accessible, to allow people to come and sit on his verandah and 'pay their respects' and hand in their petitions." It was a tremendously diverse workload, and the ICS men had little formal training to prepare for it. They learned fast, and had to rely on instinct and common sense...
...fast-paced new book, Killer Instinct (St. Martin's; 406 pages), Finder spent months interviewing staff members at technology giant NEC and other plasma-TV makers. The novel's hero, Jason Steadman, 30, is a sales exec at Entronics, a fictional Japanese-owned corporation. Although Steadman is a devotee of military-style business books, he's no warrior on the corporate battlefield--until he meets Kurt Semko, a former special-forces officer who did a stint in Iraq. "He's everything Gordy [his boss] and all these other phony tough guys pretend to be," Steadman thinks. "Sitting in their Aeron...
...their best, Finder's books are pure wish fulfillment. Like a romance novel promising true love, Killer Instinct moves you deliciously close to the corner office. That's a locale that has allure for Finder. "From time to time, I'll interview a CEO or a CFO or someone at the top of an organization, and I'll think, You know something? I could do this," he says. And why not? He's already written the script...
...Unfortunately, that instinct didn’t magically disappear the moment we opened our acceptance letters. As relentlessly future-oriented overachievers, we can’t help but look onward to the next challenge. Law schools, medical schools, Ph.D. programs: Options like these require that we spend our four years at Harvard just about as stressed as we were in high school...