This is a set of five stories chronicling the author's business career. Each story describes specific issues - good, bad and ugly - related to five different companies, including Nortel Networks, Spar Aerospace, Sovcanstar (a Russian-Canadian Joint Venture), Image Processing Systems and Networks Sciences International, all operating in the fast-moving high-tech industry worldwide. It starts in 1967 in an entry job and ends as CEO in 2001, covering several countries in four continents.