<HTML><BODY STYLE="font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><DIV> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Dear Visionaries: <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Who needs Robert E. Lee? I've discovered a deeply religious (and undeniably principled) alternative role model for Chamber of Commerce Leadership. Forget H. W. Crooker's <EM>Robert E. Lee on Leadership: Executive Lessons in Character, Courage, and Vision</EM>. </FONT></FONT><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Instead, try reading S. U. M. Crook's <EM>Torquemada on Leadership: Lessons in Character, Vision, and Really Burning the Competition</EM>.</FONT></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3></FONT> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>From the blurb:</FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></FONT> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">"Torquemada was a leader for the ages. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The man heralded by Queen Isabella of Castille as 'el hombre de la thumbscrews,' Torquemada inspired an army of religious zealots to rack, burn, stretch, sizzle, baton and tickle to death an untold number of Godless apostate hell-bound Protestants. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He was a brilliant strategist and a man of unyielding principle who, in the face of weeping and wailing, begging and pleading, closed his ears to his victims' prayers and struck the match that changed the course of history. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P></DIV> <DIV> <P><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">In this remarkable book, you'll learn the keys to Torquemada's greatness as a man and as a leader. You'll find a homicidal maniac whose standards for personal excellence were second to none, whose leadership was founded on the highest religious principles, and whose character was made of steel. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You'll see how he remade a rag-tag bunch of priests into one of the most impressive killing forces history has ever known. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You'll also discover other sides of Torquemada—the businessman who made the rack and the thumbscrew really pay and who streamlined the operations of the Inquisition. You'll meet the teacher who took a formerly-Muslim Mediterranean nation, once famed for its learning and its tolerance, and turned it into the scourge of free-thinkers everywhere.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Torquemada was the motivator who inspired those he led to achieve more than they ever dreamed possible -- piles upon piles of dead Protestants, as far as the eye could see. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Each chapter concludes with the extraordinary lessons learned, which can be applied not only to your professional life, but to your private life as well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No child, no dog, no wife will dare to disobey you! <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P> <P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Today's business world requires leaders of uncommon excellence who can outsmart the competition and overcome the cold brutality of constant change by using . . . cold brutality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Torquemada was such a leader. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He triumphed over challenges people in business face every day. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> (Just think what he could do for Martha Stewart.) </SPAN>Guided by his magnificent example, so can you."</FONT></P> <P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>What can I say? It's a slow Saturday on the Palouse, and I've already finished dinner, the dishes, and my nails.</FONT></P> <P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Hasta la vista,<BR>Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment</FONT></P> <P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3></FONT> </P><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML><br clear=all><hr>Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : <a href='http://explorer.msn.com'>http://explorer.msn.com</a><br></p>