Bøger af Richard Stewart

Right now, businesses are operating in an environment of volatility and risk never before seen in financial markets. Uncertainty is up, confidence is down and value is anyone's guess. there's never been a greater need to understand value and to be able to assess it. And there's never been a better time to make real changes to improve the overall competitive advantage of your business. StRAtEGIC VALUE provides a lucid framework for assessing how much your business is worth, what risks confront it, and how you can add value to it. First, StRAtEGIC VALUE offers a clear guide to conducting a valuation. Next it addresses what to do when things go wrong, equipping readers with four tried and tested methods for analysing risk - because, as valuation expert Richard Stewart points out, when the stakes are high and the risks are real, knowledge is power. the picture is completed with five ways in which a senior executive can increase the value of their business. this down-to-earth and exceptionally practical guide draws on parallels with sailing, gambling and poker. the reason? Just as in business valuation, all three endeavours require participants to understand what's at stake and the risk associated with that stake, and to grasp the strategies through which they might improve their position. In today's post-GFC economy, valuation is not so much an accounting add-on as a core business skill. StRAtEGIC VALUE is vital reading for CFOs and senior financial executives, heads of strategy, current and future entrepreneurs, investors - especially corporate portfolio managers - and any businessperson who has responsibility for the strategic direction of their company.

A fun read awaits! Inside are twenty-five short stories. Nearly all stories include a chance meeting between a man and a woman that awakens feelings in one or both, the encounter leading to a relationship whose outcome depends on the availability and vulnerability of the two people involved. Named domestic settings include Portsmouth NH, Hanover NH, Fort Lauderdale FL, Hilton Head Island SC, and Puerto Rico. Named foreign settings include Paris, France; France's Loire Valley; St. Moritz, Switzerland; Zug, Switzerland; and Ljubljana, Slovenia. And there's more! Each story has a lead-in mostly unrelated to the story that follows. The lead-in begins truthfully before becoming a tall tale. Sunflower, the author's wife of now sixty years, appears midway through each lead-in. Sunflower is quite the fashionista and skilled in the culinary arts as well. Uncle Willy, who has an active social life while living on his Wisconsin farm, appears toward the end of each lead-in and plants the seed from which the subsequent story grows.

The Story of Noel tells of the courage, strength, and resolve given by all the women at the North Pole. Noel is the daughter of Rudolph and Clarice. Noel was born with the light from the Northern Star cast down upon her. Noel has all the great attributes of her parents, but she is looked at differently because she is a doe. Even Santa is disappointed that a new buck with a bright shiny nose will not lead his sleigh someday. Kelnic is an outcast elf who befriends Noel, and the two become best friends. The Winter Witch never liked Santa nor what he stands for. The Winter Witch can see through her crystal snowball from atop her crystal ice palace how disappointed Santa is at not having a new buck. She knows a curse on all the men will surely stop Christmas now and forever. Seeing all the women of the North Pole rally together, the Winter Witch whips up the worst storm ever seen. Noel, Mrs. Claus, Kelnic, and all the other women get everything ready and face a storm no sleigh can conceivably get through. Grabbing the reigns with Kelnic by her side and Noel in the lead, Mrs. Claus heads into the unknown. Noel summons the power of the Northern Star, and her nose glows brighter and more powerful than Rudolph's ever did. The Winter Witch cannot believe the light from that little doe can pierce through her storm. Mrs. Claus, Kelnic, and Noel are in the lead and go on to deliver the gifts and save Christmas forevermore.

It is every NASA scientist's dream to discover life beyond our own planet. What happens if that dream is fulfilled? What happens when the government decides making first contact is essential? The government has dreams of weapons and advanced technology. The aliens have dreams of a place to live and feed. Can there be any harm if technology is shared? Can there be any harm if communities around the globe are shared? Strange events start to unfold in the Great North Woods of New Hampshire. Two unlikely community officials combine their talents to unravel what could be the end of humanity. A simple country sheriff caught in a bygone era and a reassigned antisocial NASA scientist may be the last line of defense the Earth has. There are twists and turns that need to be investigated before devising a plan putting mankind back on top.

This book details a difficult personal journey. When companies close or downscale because of heavy taxes, Richard Stewart begins working off shore as a necessity. The mining industry is not for everyone. It's hard, it's rugged, it's dangerous, it's challenging. Families are broken as a result of long hours and living apart due to the long-distance aspect of the work. Richard Stewart trained to work in every part of the mining and gas industry all over Australia. His faith kept him going in challenging times, fighting the heat, the rain, the flies, and the loneliness. His family was left at home, waiting for the day he would come home. This is a story of courage, a story about how, when a world recession hits, one man found the resilience to keep going.Richard Stewart is a native of New Zealand. He has worked as an electrician, pilot, and miner. This is his second book.

Leper Priest of Moloka'i traces the life of Father Damien from his boyhood in rural Belgium to his death at the Kalaupapa leprosy settlement after sixteen years of remarkable accomplishments. Damien overcame major obstacles to become a Catholic priest and serve as a missionary in Hawai'i. To his spiritual ministry he added the practice of medicine and the skill of a master builder of chapels, churches, and houses, both professions that he taught himself. He decried human suffering, and in his medical practice he emulated the example of his patron saint, Saint Damien the physician, who led many to Christianity by the example of the Good Samaritan. This biography presents and analyzes much new information about Damien and his years in Hawai'i. The correspondence between Damien, his colleagues in the Catholic church, his Protestant supporters, and agents of the Hawaiian Board of Health gives a fuller understanding of the extent of Damien's work at the settlement and the tensions underlying his relations with Church bureaucrats, who were both impressed by his energy and zeal and irritated by his willfullness and independence. But even his detractors could not deny that he was almost singlehandedly responsible for tremendous improvements to Kalaupapa in the face of overwhelming odds. This is the story of one humble man with faith in God and in himself, who faced gargantuan challenges and triumphed.

Courage, faith, hope and conviction is what keeps the human spirit going. When things don't go as planned, don't quit. Just keep going. In this autobiography, aviator Richard Stewart relates his personal experience with travel, flying as a pilot, and his family's brush with international crime. Stewart writes about his faith, hope, passions, dreams, and even the time his father ended up in a Peruvian prison. Dream big and never let your dream go. A native New Zealander, Richard Stewart lives and works in both New Zealand and Australia. This is his first book.

The story of the life of Father Damien from his boyhood in rural Belgium to his death at the leper settlement after 16 years as a missionary in Hawaii. To his spiritual ministry he added the practice of medicine and the skill of a master builder of chapels, churches and houses.