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Lessons from my book: Chapter 5 – The Buddy System

In the fifth chapter of my book Get Back Up, Johnson and I join the army. It was 1974 and the United States was just getting out of the Vietnam War. It’s not that Johnson and I wanted to join the army out of some great need to sacrifice for our country, it was that we didn’t [...]

2018-06-11T16:34:13-07:00June 9th, 2018|Blog|Comments Off on Lessons from my book: Chapter 5 – The Buddy System

Punched in the Gut by Prostate Cancer

What? What did you say? The doctor asked if I had any questions and those were the only two I could come up with at that moment. For years I’ve been having an annual physical and one of the tests the doctor did was for Prostate Specific Antigen. This is the test that tells the [...]

2018-06-03T11:45:29-07:00June 3rd, 2018|Author News|Comments Off on Punched in the Gut by Prostate Cancer

Lessons from my book: Chapter 4 – The Way Things Work

In the fourth chapter of my book Get Back Up I talk about meeting my lifelong friend Mark Johnson, or just Johnson, as I have called him for years. Johnson and I met in 1969 and we remain friends to this day, seeing each other often. Johnson was from the type of family where the parents [...]

2018-05-23T14:32:06-07:00May 23rd, 2018|Blog|Comments Off on Lessons from my book: Chapter 4 – The Way Things Work

Prostate Cancer: Navigating Through Insurance Company Hell

It’s been a few months since my last article about my prostate cancer treatment. That’s the thing about active surveillance, or watchful waiting; there’s a lot of waiting. During the past months I’ve continued to get PSA tests. My doctor said that if the number stayed low, I could wait until the one-year anniversary of [...]

2018-05-23T14:21:35-07:00May 10th, 2018|Blog|Comments Off on Prostate Cancer: Navigating Through Insurance Company Hell

Lessons from my book: Chapter 3 – Journey’s End

In the third chapter of my book Get Back Up I talk about our family’s early days in Tampa. My father had used the money he’d finally received from the Social Security Administration to move us out of the projects of South Philadelphia to our own home in Tampa, Florida. He also bought a small [...]

2018-05-23T14:22:54-07:00May 3rd, 2018|Blog|Comments Off on Lessons from my book: Chapter 3 – Journey’s End

Lessons from my book: Chapter 2 – Out of the Projects

  In the second chapter of my book Get Back Up I talk about my first few months in our new town of Tampa, Florida. How we got there is a story of persistence; my father’s tenacity, not mine. I frankly learned very few things from my father other than how to block and duck [...]

2018-05-23T14:23:19-07:00April 5th, 2018|Blog|Comments Off on Lessons from my book: Chapter 2 – Out of the Projects

Building Great Teams

It’s a fact that it takes a great product to help make a company successful, and it’s also true that products don’t get built without talented managers leading strong teams. If your goal is to become a successful manager or supervisor, you have to start by building a great team. 1. Assessing Your Needs Before [...]

2018-03-27T13:23:56-07:00March 27th, 2018|Author News|Comments Off on Building Great Teams

Lessons from my book: Chapter 1 – Tasker Street Projects

If you’ve been following my blog, you know that I’ve been writing about my battle with prostate cancer. If you haven’t seen the articles you can find them here: https://georgeasantino.com/book/blog/ . The last article detailed my decision to go with active surveillance rather than surgery. This requires me to have follow-up PSA tests and another [...]

2018-05-23T14:23:45-07:00March 23rd, 2018|Blog|Comments Off on Lessons from my book: Chapter 1 – Tasker Street Projects

Prostate Cancer and Alternative Treatments

Since writing my series of articles about my prostate cancer, which you can find on my website at https://georgeasantino.com/book/blog/ I have received several emails and comments of encouragement. I have also received a few emails telling me of other treatment options besides the three I’ve talked about. Some of these are a little out of [...]

2018-05-23T14:32:34-07:00February 9th, 2018|Blog|Comments Off on Prostate Cancer and Alternative Treatments

Prostate Cancer: Decision Time

Hopefully you had the chance to read my previous articles about how I handle the news of hearing I have prostate cancer. If you haven’t here is a link to them on my website. https://georgeasantino.com/book/blog/ This is the fourth article in a series of articles I am writing about how I deal with this challenge. The last doctor [...]

2018-01-23T11:47:25-08:00January 23rd, 2018|Blog|Comments Off on Prostate Cancer: Decision Time
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