In Gregg Crawford's twenty-five years combating profit killers for Fortune 500 companies with BayGroup International, he has discovered that most organizations have the same weaknesses. The same problems eat away at their margins and revenue, sabotage corporate growth, and destroy competitive standing. There is a gap between their careful plans and what actually happens. In The Last Link, Crawford offers sharp, research analysis; practical company-wide fixes, and a watertight implementation process to close that gap and move performance numbers in the right direction—quarter after quarter, and year after year.

While a young PR man at General Electric, KURT VONNEGUT (1922-2007) sold his first short story to one of the many literary publications that were thriving then. By the time he'd sold his third, Vonnegut quit GE to join the likes of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner to write short stories at fifteen-hundred dollars a piece, before his first novel, Player Piano, launched his remarkable career as a countercultural novelist.