R.L. (Rick) Hann – Bellingham, Washington
BIO/Background for Intro
- Began his writing career in 2015 after retiring from more than 35 years of working in the Southern California Aerospace Industry – Received a NASA Medal of Service from JPL in Pasadena
- Honored with the Irwin Award for Best Mystery of the Year from the Book Publicists of Southern California
- “Grew up” working for a major commercial aircraft manufacturer – started at age 19, delivering mail
- Focused his career on developing “Improvement Programs,” working closely with top-level executive teams of three separate major Aerospace Corporations over twenty-five years…eventually became an expert at “Bad Management” after years of training managers, and developed a great deal of empathy for employees striving to succeed, often in spite of their managers
- Great challenges working with executives who provided the basis for “Executive Malice”
Storyline
“EXECUTIVE MALICE” is the story of Teri Harlan, a successful Director working for Aerosystems in Seattle, who accepts an offer to rejoin her former company in Southern California as a VP. Upon arrival, she soon discovers the company she once loved has become infested with self-indulged senior executives and bizarre business practices. Being a natural problem solver, Teri jumps into the fray, hoping to fix what was once great. But when she unravels a dark corporate conspiracy, she’s assailed by the company’s malicious Executive VP, ending up in mortal peril, and facing a shattering confrontation with her past.
Hot Topics
– Most all of us have bosses, and with them comes a host of very real challenges – just trying to survive in the “Corporate Jungle.”
- The Me-Too movement was alive and well in the 80s and 90s as well as today
- Bad behavior of many managers often goes on unchecked
- It’s amazing that large companies remain in business, given the competence and behavior of most managers and many senior executives
- Management training doesn’t work, nor do major corporate improvement programs
- Manipulation and dishonesty is unfortunately too often the basis for both promotion and decision making
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