Böcker av Don Johnston

Is your portfolio keeping up with the Joneses?That is, is it keeping up with the Dow Jones Industrial Average?Early in 2021, the DJIA passed 35,000 for the first time. In six or seven years it will double and reach 70,000. Unfortunately, many portfolios will not double by that time because they contain too many securities that are underperforming. You can correct that situation, either as an individual investor or in consultation with your financial advisor. Stock-Picking Revisited explains how to do so.

In 2045, incoming radio waves surge from the M13 star cluster, and President Rex Horn, a Planet X junkie, describes the signals as SOS, mayday, or cease and desist messages. Despite impeachment threats from his opponents, Mr. Horn funds a new program to intensify the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The program provides scholarships for outstanding students, and the President urges recipients to think outside the box.Darien Segura and Carly Hansen receive scholarships to participate in the M13 study as students at New Mexico State University. Darien, abandoned as a baby in the Darien Province of Panama, and adopted by a couple in Alamogordo, is an astronomy student. Carly, a beautiful newcomer from Texas, is studying parapsychology. While studying the incoming radio waves, they discover low-frequency waves embedded in them, apparently a message. Carly believes ESP is the key to solving the riddle. They begin testing for the elusive psi phenomenon and locate traces of it in twins, including monkeys, dogs, and people-all born in Alamogordo. Carly refers to this oddity as The Alamogordo Connection.To their surprise, they discover that Darien possesses substantial ESP, but not enough to decode the message without linking to someone else who also has it. Darien is convinced that he has a twin living in the jungles of Panama, and they embark on a journey to search for him. Upon trekking to an isolated village, they find the witch doctor who delivered Darien. Just before she dies, the old woman reveals a stunning fact.Will it be enough to decipher ET's message?

THE DAR LUMBRE CHRONICLESIn 2086, NatGov was poised to arrest Dr. Dar Lumbre for performing genetic experiments banned by law, but before the warrant could be served, a solar flare erased large amounts of national census data. During the chaos created by this massive data loss, Dr. Lumbre vanished like a will-o'-the-wisp and hasn't been seen in fifty years. His disappearance triggered questions...Did NatGov assassinate him?Did he change his identity? Did he go into hiding? Did he ascend? Believing the solar flare to be divine providence, the enigmatic doctor's followers formed the Dar Lumbre Society and proclaimed his timely return, not as a fugitive, but as a sociopolitical messiah destined to unite the divided country by serving as a nexus between science, politics, and religion. CellTech geneticists, Crane Hopkins and Annie Lee, are thrust into this melee due to the failure of DL-666, the oddly-named synthetic heart tissue developed by Dar Lumbre shortly before his disappearance. Many people, including the First Lady of the United States, are awaiting heart transplants which cannot be performed with the malfunctioning tissue. Crane and Annie launch a frantic search for compatible DNA to make the needed repairs, but are stymied time after time because the records of Dr. Lumbre's original work have disappeared, if they ever existed.Dar Lumbre is of Mexican descent, and in Spanish, his name means to give light. If he reappears, will he establish himself as a bold new light in the world of medicine? Or will NatGov ban his efforts a second time and impose another scientific dark age, as the number 666 might suggest?

This book provides practical guidance on how to develop Customer Viewpoint Maps. It provides examples of customer viewpoint maps, offers guidelines for working with customers to develop the map, and shows how the results interface with the traditional value stream map for the process. Helping readers leverage the investment their companies have already made in their value stream maps, the text supplies a fresh perspective on how to improve processes. The author illustrates the connections between the various processes that, until now, have been managed separately.