Lucky strikes-- again

"Lucky's book ... makes me laugh again and again ..."--Bill Moyers, Public Affairs Television, Inc. Bob Lucky, author of the widely acclaimed "Reflections" column in Spectrum magazine, provides a humorous, nostalgic collection of ten years worth of his own reflections on typical situations engineers encounter during their careers. Spiced with 20% new anecdotes and personal experiences, LUCKY STRIKES ... AGAIN takes good-natured gibes at corporate bureaucrats while offering some not-so-subtle advice on ways to circumvent the bureaucracy and gives the bureaucrats some hints on when to look the other way

Foreword. -- Preface. -- Part 1 About Engineers. -- The Joy of Engineering. -- The Image Gap. -- The High-Tech Appeal. -- Celebrities as Engineers. -- Layers of Ability. -- Engineers: Dearth or Glut? -- The Best and the Brightest. -- Engineers: Born or Made? -- The Curriculum Dilemma. -- Giving Away the Store. -- Part 2 So What If Engineers Can't Talk or Write? -- The Gong Show. -- Feedback. -- The Banquet Speech. -- Sliding By. -- Not Ready for Prime Time. -- Credentials: Who Needs Them? -- A Way with Words. -- The Papermill. -- Part 3 The Fickleness of Technology. -- Rampant Technology. -- The Incredible Shrinking Transistor. -- What's Real Anymore? -- An Engineer in the Land of Lilliput. -- Goodbye, Heathkit. -- The Electronic Hobbyist. -- The Paper Airplane. -- A (Very Modern) Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. -- Coping with Complexity. -- Software Productivity. -- What's Bugging Us? -- Plugging In. -- The Wisdom of the Net. -- The Gigabit Network: Who Needs It? -- Part 4 Playing the Corporate Game. -- The Bean Counters. -- Corporate Communication. -- Management Power. -- Toward Dynamic Demos. -- The Fashionable Thing. -- Leapfrog a Generation! -- Proprietary Informat…