Concluding Scenario Analysis

Abstract

Tom Spengler found himself lying in his hospital bed with lots of time to think, reflect, read and learn. The brush with death and the evident lack of people beyond his family who came to visit him deeply affected him. Where were all his friends now? The sad truth was that he had few friends—he had spent so long treating others as mere instruments there to assist in his own path to glory that he had forgotten the importance of friends and family, and similarly, too, his health. Smoking was not something that encouraged either heart or lung health—his heart in particular, as he had just discovered. A kind friend—one of the very few he still had—who worked in a publishing house, somehow acquired and passed him an early draft of this book.