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La base militar estadounidense de Mannheim, en Alemania Occidental, es en apariencia un lugar tranquilo. Estamos a finales de los ochenta y la última guerra con participación norteamericana queda lejos. Los soldados marchan y practican tiro, y los oficiales tratan de escalar en la cadena de mando. El soldado Ray Elwood, asistente del coronel Berman y maestro de la burocracia y el papeleo militar, tiene montado en la base un negocio muy lucrativo: fabrica y vende heroína a la tropa. Sin embargo, la extraña muerte de un soldado a quien Elwood tenía en nómina y la llegada a la base de un nuevo sargento y su hija hacen peligrar su modus vivendi. Elwood considera que ha llegado el momento de un retiro dorado, pero para lograrlo necesita llevar a cabo una última operación de grandes dimensiones. Primera y única novela de Robert O’Connor, "Buffalo Soldiers" (1993) describe con humor negro y crudeza la corrupción, el odio racial y la degradación del ejército estadounidense en tiempos de paz.

We experience change in four phases. The first is panic. Then we adapt. Then we find a new normal. And then, finally, we reach the phase we could not have imagined in the beginning, the moment when we realize that we wouldn’t go back. Build for Tomorrow is designed to accelerate that process—to help you lessen your panic, adapt faster, define the new normal, and thrive going forward. And it arrives as we all, in some way, have felt a shift in our lives. The pandemic forced a moment of collective change, and we are still being forced to make new plans and adjustments to our lives, families, and careers. Many of us will never go back, continuing to work from home, demanding higher wages, or starting new businesses. To help people along this journey, Entrepreneur magazine editor in chief Jason Feifer offers stories, lessons, and concrete exercises from the most potent sources of change in our world. He speaks to the world’s most successful changemakers—from global celebrities like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Maria Sharapova to innovative CEOs and Main Street heroes—to learn how they decide what to protect, what to discard, and how to move forward without fear. He also draws lessons from history, looking at how massive changes across time can help us better understand the opportunities of today. For example, he finds guidance for our post-pandemic realities inside the power shifts that occurred after the Bubonic Plague, and he reveals how the history of innovations like the elevator and even the teddy bear can teach anyone to be more forward-thinking.