Bruce Johnson

If you work for a traditional insurance agency or broker, you're probably leaving millions on the table along with the opportunity to script the dream life you've always wanted. You're forced to attend time-wasting meetings and have little control over your time or compensation. Management can alter your commissions or move the goalposts whenever it suits them. Even worse, your job can disappear, taking your clients with it. To thrive, you need to break those corporate bonds. Earn It, Own It is your road map to independence. Within, Insurance Office of America vice president Bruce Johnson reveals how you can become a sales entrepreneur, owning your book of business, earning significantly higher commissions, scaling your business through partnering, and spending more time with family. He also demonstrates how a culture of faith, family, and teamwork will serve you far better than one of arbitrary competition. If you're a self-motivated hard worker open to new information and ideas, this book is for you. You owe it to yourself to learn about IOA's entrepreneurial business model. It's the first step to transforming the way you do business-and revolutionizing your life.

Skip the basics and delve right into Visual Studio 2017 advanced features and tools Professional Visual Studio 2017 is the industry-favorite guide to getting the most out of Microsoft's primary programming technology. From touring the new UI to exploiting advanced functionality, this book is designed to help professional developers become more productive. A unique IDE-centric approach provides a clear path through the typical workflow while exploring the nooks and crannies that can make your job easier. Visual Studio 2017 includes a host of features aimed at improving developer productivity and UI, and this book covers them all with clear explanation, new figures, and expert insight. Whether you're new to VS or just upgrading, this all-inclusive guide is an essential resource to keep within arm's reach. Visual Studio 2017 fixes the crucial issues that kept professionals from adopting VS 2015, and includes new features and tools that streamline the developer's job. This book provides the straightforward answers you need so you can get up to speed quickly and get back to work. Master the core functionality of Visual Studio 2017Dig into the tools that make writing code easierTailor the environment to your workflow, not the other way aroundWork your way through configuration, debugging, building, deployment, customizing, and more Microsoft is changing their release cadence—it's only been about two years since the last release—so developers need to quickly get a handle on new tools and features if they hope to remain productive. The 2017 release is designed specifically to help you get more done, in less time, with greater accuracy and attention to detail. If you're ready to get acquainted, Professional Visual Studio 2017 is your ideal guide.

For the first time, Revsine's Financial Reporting & Analysis will feature Connect, the premier digital teaching and learning tool that allows instructors to assign and assess course material.Financial Reporting & Analysis (FR&A) by Revsine/Collins/Johnson/Mittelstaedt emphasizes both the process of financial reporting and the analysis of financial statements. This book employs a true "user" perspective by discussing the contracting and decision implications of accounting, helping readers understand why accounting choices are so important and to whom they matter. Revsine, Collins, Johnson, and Mittelstaedt train their readers to be good financial detectives by enabling them to read, use, and interpret the statements. Most importantly, FR&A helps students understand how and why managers can utilize the flexibility in GAAP to adapt the numbers for their own purposes.

AURINKOALUS III™ (SUNSHIP III™) on 13-14 -vuotiaille suunnattu maakasvatusohjelma. Nimensä se on saanut siitä, että maapallo on kolmas planeetta lähimmästä tähdestämme, auringosta. Ohjelman tarkoituksena on motivoida osallistujia näkemään ympäristöasioita uudella tavalla ja antaa vaihtoehtoja uuden kestävämmän elämäntavan rakentamiseksi. Ohjelman 2 ½-3 päivää kestävä "Aloitusjakso" toimii tehokkaana ponnahduslautana sille, mitä ohjelmaan osallistuvat nuoret tekevät myöhemmin kotona ja koulussa. AURINKOALUS III - edessä olevan matkan oivallus ja valinta -kirja antaa perusteellisen kuvan koko ohjelmasta ja se motivoi kestävämpää elämäntapaa edistäviä toimipaikkoja ja ohjaajia aloittamaan ohjelman toteuttamisen. Kirjan alkuperäisteoksen kirjoittajina ovat toimineet professorit Steve Van Matre ja Bruce Johnson. Kirjassa mukana mm. - yleiskuvaukset neljästä ekologisesta harjoitteesta: Solarville, Aineiden kierrätyslaitos, Museoprojekti ja Aurinkotemppeli SOL.- outo hahmo O/V edustaen vertauskuvallisesti ihmisen kaksijakoisuutta - tasapainoista puoltamme ja häirikköpuoltamme.- Maan Emo, vanha tarinankertoja, joka johdattelee nuoret omalle etsintämatkalle. - Solarit, aurinkovalon energian rahayksikkö, jota käytetään kaikkeen toimintaamme maapallolla. - Päivin päivä, jonka aikana nuori kuluttaa suuren määrän energiaa tajuamatta itse miten toimii.- Kuoleman varjo, aamun koitteessa tapahtuva vuoropuhelu kuoleman ja uhanalaisten lajien kanssa.

Learn about fascinating animals from around the world, as this book takes you on a trip through the zoo. This bilingual edition features the same "paired reading" format as the English Edition, but the text is in both English and Spanish on each page.

In Promoting Early Career Teacher Resilience the stories of 60 graduate teachers are documented as they grapple with some of the most persistent and protracted personal and professional struggles facing teachers today. Narratives emerge detailing feelings of frustration, disillusionment and even outrage as they struggle with the complexity, intensity and immediacy of life in schools. Other stories also surface to show exhilarating experiences, documenting the wonder, joy and excitement of working with young people for the first time. This book makes sense of these experiences in ways that can assist education systems, schools, and faculties of teacher education, as well as early career teachers themselves to develop more powerful forms of critical teacher resilience. Rejecting psychological explanations of teacher resilience, it endorses an alternative socio-cultural and critical approach to understanding teacher resilience. The book crosses physical borders and represents experiences of teachers in similar circumstances across the globe, providing researchers and teachers with real-life examples of resilience promoting policies and practices.This book is not written as an account of the failures of an education system, but rather as a provocation to help generate ideas, policies and practices capable of illuminating the experiences of early career teachers in more critical and socially just ways at an international and national level.

In Promoting Early Career Teacher Resilience the stories of 60 graduate teachers are documented as they grapple with some of the most persistent and protracted personal and professional struggles facing teachers today. Narratives emerge detailing feelings of frustration, disillusionment and even outrage as they struggle with the complexity, intensity and immediacy of life in schools. Other stories also surface to show exhilarating experiences, documenting the wonder, joy and excitement of working with young people for the first time. This book makes sense of these experiences in ways that can assist education systems, schools, and faculties of teacher education, as well as early career teachers themselves to develop more powerful forms of critical teacher resilience. Rejecting psychological explanations of teacher resilience, it endorses an alternative socio-cultural and critical approach to understanding teacher resilience. The book crosses physical borders and represents experiences of teachers in similar circumstances across the globe, providing researchers and teachers with real-life examples of resilience promoting policies and practices.This book is not written as an account of the failures of an education system, but rather as a provocation to help generate ideas, policies and practices capable of illuminating the experiences of early career teachers in more critical and socially just ways at an international and national level.

Learn about fascinating animals from around the world, as this book takes you on a trip through the zoo. Charming illustrations of children, combined with beautiful photography of the animals, help to make this book a unique and very engaging title.

This book addresses one of the most persistent issues confronting governments, educations systems and schools today: the attraction, preparation, and retention of early career teachers. It draws on the stories of sixty graduate teachers from Australia to identify the key barriers, interferences and obstacles to teacher resilience and what might be done about it. Based on these stories, five interrelated themes - policies and practices, school culture, teacher identity, teachers’ work, and relationships – provide a framework for dialogue around what kinds of conditions need to be created and sustained in order to promote early career teacher resilience. The book provides a set of resources – stories, discussion, comments, reflective questions and insights from the literature – to promote conversations among stakeholders rather than providing yet another ‘how to do’ list for improving the daily lives of early career teachers. Teaching is a complex, fragile and uncertain profession. It operates in an environment of unprecedented educational reforms designed to control, manage and manipulate pedagogical judgements. Teacher resilience must take account of both the context and circumstances of individual schools (especially those in economically disadvantaged communities) and the diversity of backgrounds and talents of early career teachers themselves. The book acknowledges that the substantial level of change required– cultural, structural, pedagogical and relational – to improve early career teacher resilience demands a great deal of cooperation and support from governments, education systems, schools, universities and communities: teachers cannot do it alone. This book is written to generate conversations amongst early career teachers, teacher colleagues, school leaders, education administrators, academics and community leaders about the kinds of pedagogical and relational conditions required to promote early career teacher resilience andwellbeing.

After all the hours of studying, reading and preparation, the nights spent revising and the writing and re-writing of assignments, ‘success’ for university students can often be represented with a single grade or digit, summing up a wide range of activities. The authors of this timely book ask how fair that assessment is.This book is about a long-ignored determinant of student satisfaction, concerning the perception of how fairly students are judged, marked, ranked and rewarded for demonstrating their capabilities at university. In the high stakes competitive field of higher education, students are increasingly positioned as customers whose views on their university experience are considered vitally important. Yet paradoxically, little research has been undertaken to find out more about how students decide whether they have been treated fairly and what they do about it. This book fills a major gap in our understanding of these issues, responding to four key questions:Why is the assessment of students’ capabilities the core business of universities?What are the main sources of student frustration with assessment arrangements?What do students do when they think they have been treated unfairly?What can be done to promote fair assessment at university?In doing so, this book goes beyond the superficial consideration of university assessment as a ‘necessary requirement’ by unravelling the underlying issues that really count – what is considered fair assessment and what is not.Towards Fairer University Assessment will be of interest to higher education academics, administrators and managers, researchers in the areas of education policy and politics, as well as advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.

After all the hours of studying, reading and preparation, the nights spent revising and the writing and re-writing of assignments, ‘success’ for university students can often be represented with a single grade or digit, summing up a wide range of activities. The authors of this timely book ask how fair that assessment is.This book is about a long-ignored determinant of student satisfaction, concerning the perception of how fairly students are judged, marked, ranked and rewarded for demonstrating their capabilities at university. In the high stakes competitive field of higher education, students are increasingly positioned as customers whose views on their university experience are considered vitally important. Yet paradoxically, little research has been undertaken to find out more about how students decide whether they have been treated fairly and what they do about it. This book fills a major gap in our understanding of these issues, responding to four key questions:Why is the assessment of students’ capabilities the core business of universities?What are the main sources of student frustration with assessment arrangements?What do students do when they think they have been treated unfairly?What can be done to promote fair assessment at university?In doing so, this book goes beyond the superficial consideration of university assessment as a ‘necessary requirement’ by unravelling the underlying issues that really count – what is considered fair assessment and what is not.Towards Fairer University Assessment will be of interest to higher education academics, administrators and managers, researchers in the areas of education policy and politics, as well as advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.

An in-depth, well-researched look at 100 hedge fund frauds Compared to mutual funds, hedge funds are the James Bonds of the marketplace. They have been relatively unfettered by government regulation, and they play bigger games, take bigger risks, use unorthodox methods, and have the power to capture the public imagination in a way that their lesser counterparts have difficulty approaching. At once fascinating and startling, The Hedge Fund Fraud Casebook provides readers with a broad knowledge of hedge fund regulation through a look at the first 100 cases of proven fraud at hedge funds. Compiling concrete data on cases of hedge fund fraud, The Hedge Fund Fraud Casebook provides you with a factual foundation for assessing this difficult area of risk. First comprehensive survey of hedge fund fraud including 100 chronological fraud casesIncludes descriptions of each case, diagram of the player interaction, and tables detailing monies recovered, fines paid, prison terms, and professional sanctionsUseful for both individual and professional investors, particularly given the last eighteen months of fraud and mismanagement among leading financial professionals and companies The Hedge Fund Fraud Casebook provides a hedge fund professional's look at fraud and can help you prevent or avoid similar frauds in the future. It's a vital resource for any hedge fund manager or investor.