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2009 Book of the Year
Gunnery Sergeant Nick Popaditch, United States Marine Corps (ret.) was awarded
the Military-Writers.com 2009 Book of the Year for his book, Once a Marine.
On April 7, 2004, during the First Battle of Fallujah, Gunnery Sergeant Nick Popaditch
“was wounded in action. During a firefight with enemy insurgents, he was struck in the head by an enemy Rocket Propelled
Grenade, fired from a rooftop into the commander’s hatch of his tank. He received numerous shrapnel wounds.” His
injuries necessitated the removal of his right eye; and, “his remaining eye was legally blind. His right ear and nose
sustained significant damage and an implant was placed in his skull.”
In his book, Once a Marine: An Iraq War Tank Commander’s
Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery, Nick Popaditch describes how at first he “fights to get back
to where he was in Iraq - in the cupola of an M1A1 main battle tank, leading Marines in combat at the point of the spear.
As the seriousness and permanence of his disabilities become more evident, Nick Popaditch fights to remain in the Corps in
any capacity, to help the brothers in arms he so aches to rejoin. Facing the inevitable following a medical retirement, he
battles for rightful recognition and compensation for his permanent disabilities. Throughout his harrowing ordeal, Nick Popaditch
fights to maintain his honor and loyalty, waging all these battles the same way - the Marine way.
2007 Book of the Year
Using poker as analogy for leadership, Captain
Andrew Harvey, CPD (ret.), Ed.D. and Lieutenant Raymond E. Foster, LAPD (ret.),
MPA found the right mix of practical experience and academic credentials to
write a definitive book for leaders. Working together, Harvey and Foster have
written Leadership: Texas Hold em Style.
Most often leaders find they are given a set of resources people, equipment,
funds, experience and a mission. As Foster noted, You are dealt a certain hand.
How you play that hand as a leader determines your success
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More than a
book:
A fun and entertaining journey
through leadership that includes an interactive website to supplement
knowledge gained from the book.
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Proven and
Tested:
Not an academic approach to
leadership, but rather a road-tested guide that has been developed through
50-years of author experience.
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High Impact: Through
the use of perspective, reflection, and knowledge, provides information that
turns leadership potential into leadership practice.
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Ease of
Application: Theory
is reinforced with real-life experience, which results in accessible and
practical tools leaders can put to use
immediately.
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High Road
Approach:
Personal character and ethical
beliefs are woven into each leadership approach, so leaders do the
right thing for the
right reasons.
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Uses Game of
Poker:
Rather than a dry approach that is all fact and no flavor, the game of poker
is used as a lens through which to view leadership concepts.
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