Do you ever find yourself questioning what you believe around issues that impact your life and business? Do you ever feel lost in your decisions? Are you ever frustrated in your lack of ability to take your life or business exactly where you know you want to go? Non-Negotiable is all about understanding what you believe, what you can control, what your mission is and ultimately taking your convictions to the level of Non-Negotiable. Based on the real life story of J. Pat Hickman, a man with a purpose, and the bank he leads, Happy State Bank, you will see firsthand what success looks like. Sam Silverstein, champion of accountability, presents the inspiring story of how J. Pat Hickman transformed a sleepy small town bank from one location and $10 million in assets into 34 locations and over $2.5 billion in assets by knowing what he believes and not negotiating on what he holds dear. In the process, he assembled a team of leaders that understand what great culture looks like and a bank full of motivated people who love what they do. Read this book to: Discover and define your own Non-Negotiables Energize your ability to avoid distractions and make important decisions Establish a culture that promotes personal and organizational accountability Understand the power of true accountability Unleash the power of knowing what it is you truly believe
This book tells the story of ecological forest recovery in the wet forests of Victoria following major wildfires in February 2009. It also focuses on the science of ecological recovery – a major body of information that is not well known or understood by the vast majority of Australians and the vast majority of environmental policy makers. Forest Phoenix presents this important story via short engaging text and truly spectacular images, which are accompanied by highly informative captions. If you've ever wanted to better understand how forests and forest biodiversity recover after wildfire, then this book is a must-read. 2011 Whitley Award Commendation for Ecological Zoology.
Mountain Ash draws together exciting new findings on the effects of fire and on post-fire ecological dynamics following the 2009 wildfires in the Mountain Ash forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria. The book integrates data on forests, carbon, fire dynamics and other factors, building on 6 years of high-quality, multi-faceted research coupled with 25 years of pre-fire insights. Topics include: the unexpected effects of fires of varying severity on populations of large old trees and their implications for the dynamics of forest ecosystems; relationships between forest structure, condition and age and their impacts on fire severity; relationships between logging and fire severity; the unexpectedly low level of carbon stock losses from burned forests, including those burned at very high severity; impacts of fire at the site and landscape levels on arboreal marsupials; persistence of small mammals and birds on burned sites, including areas subject to high-severity fire, and its implications for understanding how species in this group exhibit post-fire recovery patterns. With spectacular images of the post-fire environment, Mountain Ash will be an important reference for scientists and students with interests in biodiversity, forests and fire.
Sam Bass was a 19th-century American Old West train robber and outlaw. He was part of a gang that robbed a train of $60,000. After forming his own gang, however, he never had similar success. He died as a result of wounds received in a gun battle with Texas Rangers . This is an autobiographical account of his career and death.
Begins with the aftermath of the Civil War and follows the United States's history to the present. Includes excerpts from contemporary letters and books.
This guide presents bankers with solutions to the problems surrounding credit analysis, credit management, loan workouts and loan structuring. The authors present a picture of the difficulties of maintaining an effective banking credit management policy in
The most brilliantly honest treastise ever written on the Federal Reserve by an honest plain-spoken banker that refused to give in to the Federal Reserve's thuggery after the illegitimate birth of the pariah back in 1913. This account gives historical affidavit that the Federal Reserve Banker's sent a car load of gunmen under the guise of "agents of the Federal Government" to force a Nebraska plains banker by the name of Wood Cones to sign up for the program at the point of gun. Excerpt from book: "November 14, 1919, a high powered auto containing four people, drove into Pierce and stopped in front of the Bank, but the engine kept running. Two men, W. S. Lower and M. L. Bishop, got out of the car, armed with revolvers and entered our bank. As agents of the Federal Reserve Bank, they demanded the currency on checks drawn 25 against the Cones State Bank of Pierce, Nebraska, of the aggregate face value of $31,900, some of which had been held for over three weeks.
Discover how the superwealthy made it to the top (and you can too!) From the richest Romans to the robber barons to today's bankers and tech billionaires, Sam Wilkin offers Freakonomics-esque insights into what it really takes to make a fortune. These stories of larger-than-life characters, strategies, and sacrifices reveal how the wealthiest did it, usually by a passion for finding loopholes, working around bureaucratic systems, and creating obstacles to competitors. Wealth Secrets of the One Percent gets at the heart of our feelings about the 1% of top income earners and the roughly 0.0001% who achieve billionaire status: we love to hate them, but we'd love to be them. Wilkin's insight into the sources of wealth is thought-provoking and rigorous, and he reveals that behind almost every great fortune is a "wealth secret" -- a moneymaking technique designed to defeat the forces of market competition.
Federal Central Banks is a unique study that critically examines the role and impact of central banks in federal and confederal political systems. It conducts a detailed examination of the history, design and operation of central banking in the United States and in the European Union. The contradiction between the centralizing features of banking and monetary policy and the political and economic expectations of pluralist federal democracy is explored. Regional economic disparities are seen to be amplified by modern 'independent' central banking. The response of the US Treasury and Federal Reserve to the GFC is rated as superior to immature Eurozone institutions. But both underperformed in not providing adequate fiscal-monetary solutions. Quantitative easing rescued the financial sector from collapse, but exacerbated wealth inequalities and failed to provide a sufficiently rapid economic recovery. Federal level banking reforms need to go hand in hand with democratic accountability. The Eurozone governance structures are dysfunctional and undemocratic and should be reformed.
Few schools around the world teach students the value of money management. This book fills the gap, describing theextraordinary power of saving money rather than spending it, how even mall amounts such as the price of a cup of coffee can, over the long term, grow to thousands of pounds, dollars and so on thanks to the magic of compounded interest. Using actual examples from the menus of coffee houses and fast food outlets, the book shows just how easy it is to save money - and how quickly it grows. Conversely, the book describes the ever present dangers of getting into debt; how banks and credit card companies want you to be in debt because that's how they make their profits (and pay huge salaries to their top executives). The book steers the reader through the minefield of the financial world and shows young people from the age of 15 upwards how to invest their savings in order to ensure their future wealth for life. Additionally, it discusses the pros and cons of student loans in detail and, looking to the future, examines the housing markets and how not to consider mortgages a debt, rather than an investment.
This is the Record on Appeal of an order withdrawing Sam Ware counsel for the Estate of K. Michael Goodall from appearing in this case. Counsel for the Goodall Estate sought to withdraw after counsel for Bank of America filed three successive motions for monetary sanctions. These motions were filed by Bank of America against Counsel for the Goodall Estate and personally against the administrator of the Goodall Estate with Will annexed. These successive motions for sanctions demanded that Counsel for the Goodall Estate and the Administrator of the Goodall Estate personally both pay between $13,000 and $16,000 to Counsel for Bank of America. These three motions for sanctions were utterly frivolous and without basis. Their obvious propose was to frighten and intimidate counsel for the Goodall Estate and to scare him into not zealously presenting the best arguments and to frighten him so that he would not properly present the case and would not appeal if necessary. In view of this plus the obvious hostility of the judge presiding over the case to the rightful claims of the Goodall Estate, which made it likely that these motions for sanctions which threatened the professional career of Counsel for the Goodall Estate would be granted, he filed the motion to withdraw so as to get himself off the hook on these motions for sanctions. Even after filing the motion to withdraw, the comments by Judge Busch at the final hearing on sanctions show that Judge Busch was on the verge of ordering sanctions anyway.
The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization had appeared to be the natural outcome of this unstoppable process. But today, with global markets roiling and increasingly reliant on state intervention to stay afloat, it has become clear that markets and states aren’t straightforwardly opposing forces. In this groundbreaking work, Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin demonstrate the intimate relationship between modern capitalism and the American state, including its role as an “informal empire” promoting free trade and capital movements. Through a powerful historical survey, they show how the US has superintended the restructuring of other states in favor of competitive markets and coordinated the management of increasingly frequent financial crises. The Making of Global Capitalism, through its highly original analysis of the first great economic crisis of the twenty-first century, identifies the centrality of the social conflicts that occur within states rather than between them. These emerging fault lines hold out the possibility of new political movements transforming nation states and transcending global markets.
Updated business wisdom from the founder of Dogfish Head, the nation's fastest growing independent craft brewery Starting with nothing more than a home brewing kit, Sam Calagione turned his entrepreneurial dream into a foamy reality in the form of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, one of America's best and fastest growing craft breweries. In this newly updated Second Edition, Calagione offers a deeper real-world look at entrepreneurship and what it takes to operate and grow a successful business. In several new chapters, he discusses Dogfish's most innovative marketing ideas, including how social media has become an integral part of the business model and how other small businesses can use it to catch up with bigger competitors. Calagione also presents a compelling argument for choosing to keep his business small and artisanal, despite growing demand for his products. Updated to offer a more complete look at what it takes to keep a small business booming An inspiring story of renegade entrepreneurialism and the rewards of dreaming big, working hard, and thinking unconventionally Shows how to use social media to reach new customers and grow a business For any entrepreneur with a dream, Brewing Up a Business, Second Edition presents an enlightening, in-depth look at what it takes to succeed on their own terms.
This guide presents bankers with solutions to the problems surrounding credit analysis, credit management, loan workouts and loan structuring. The authors present a picture of the difficulties of maintaining an effective banking credit management policy in
Fusion Technology 1980, Volume 2 contains the proceedings of the 11th Symposium on Fusion Technology held at the Examination Schools, Oxford, UK on September 15-19, 1980. As a continuation of the papers presented in the symposium, the book begins with a description of the data acquisition and control in fusion technology. Subsequent papers presented focus on power supplies, plasma engineering, and fusion materials. Various reactor studies reported in the symposium are also shown.
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