CRAZY MOUNTAIN LION: Tales Of An Agent Of Change

Richard Platt spent eight years in grade school as a “rabbit” being chased by a pack of school yard “hounds”. To state it more bluntly, he was a sissy picked on by the bullies. In high school he broke free and began the long journey towards becoming a Mountain Lion.

A Mountain Lion by instinct, when chased by a pack of hounds, climbs a tree. The hunter, hearing the yapping, finally arrives and shoots the lion out of the tree. But a Crazy Mountain Lion doesn’t climb the tree. Instead he has a hound or two for lunch. This is Richard Platt’s journey from Scared Rabbit to “Iishpiiwaalaaxash”, Crazy Mountain Lion in the Crow language.

This autobiography follows Platt’s path from being a ski patrolman, District Ranger with the Forest Service, and Organization Development consultant to a variety of governmental and private organizations, to being a leader of marathon therapy groups called “Leadership Labs.” Along the way, we learn of his lifelong connection to wilderness and mountaineering, his relationship to Native Americans, and his interest in spirituality.

The book is also about trying to improve organizations and help those who work in them by such methods as team building, job enrichment, meeting facilitation, developing communications skills, and a variety of other approaches. The anecdotes illustrate how managers run their organizations and how some do this with skill and others just get by, or perhaps, fail.

To purchase this book:

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To contact the author:

richardplatt7 at icloud dot com