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Should the Government be Allowed to Force us into Jury Duty?
Krista D'Ambroso
Krista is a published author, entrepreneur, and small business owner. She has certifications in human nutrition as well as animal behavior.
Would courtrooms remain like this if we were given the option of volunteering for jury duty?
Called to Serve
Recently I was summoned to serve on the jury in superior court thirty miles away from my home. It happens every year or two lately, and usually I just ignore them. I had responded to one many years ago when I was very politically active and told them I was a political aggravant. They didn't try to get me to do jury duty again for some twenty years. While I was going through cancer treatments eight years ago, I told them it would be unlikely I would ever be able to serve.
Still, the summons kept coming after that and I kept ignoring them. Whatever possessed me to respond this time is beyond me, but I did. I went online and filled out the form telling them I couldn't serve due to medical reasons, and I listed some of the reasons. They promptly sent me a letter via snail-mail informing me my excuse was denied and that I needed to respond with a doctor's release, or something of that nature.
Maybe I was over-reacting by feeling violated, but that was only my initial emotion. The anger swiftly came next.
I flat out refused to go to that kind of trouble to prove to the government I couldn't bow down to their whim. What year and country was I living in? 1930's Soviet Russia? Were they going to send the Gestapo after me for not sending them a doctor's note by the 12th of January? Don't we have enough government breathing down our necks about everything enough as it is? Now they're going to make me drive my worn out car thirty miles every day for as long as they see necessary for $12 per day plus .44 cents in mileage? They don't give a single rat turd what might be going on in my life that this jury summons thing could exacerbate. They don't give a monkey's uncle that it takes about a month to schedule an appointment with certain doctors, and that I had just seen my pain management doctor last week.
I immediately started stressing about what my punishment for refusing them would be. I got on the Internet and started investigating it. I wasn't super surprised to find out what the punishments were for skipping out on jury duty, but I was definitely infuriated by it.
The Reasons for a Jury
Everyone over the age of eighteen will be called to serve on the jury at least once, if not every year or two for most of their natural lives. For those who haven't, it's only a matter of time. It's nearly impossible to get off their radar if you vote or have a driver's license/ID. Though many of us dread this calling and try just about anything to get out of doing it, there are some who find it interesting, and often times a fun way to get out of work for a while.
Those who believe in the judicial system claim it's every citizen's responsibility to serve when called to maintain a democratic system. They believe it is more fair and just to have a non-partial, lay-person judging the evidence against the accused. They believe that if the decision were up to a single person's interpretation; a judge, for instance, unfair bias could occur and the accused could be wrongfully imprisoned. What's missing from this ideology is the fact that the accused can choose to have a judge decide his/her case without a jury present and in some instances, a judge can even over-turn a jury's judgement (https://www.quora.com/Can-a-judge-disregard-a-jurys-verdict). These two things alone make a jury seem pretty inconsequential. Add to the fact that the law says the accused is entitled to a jury of his/her peers, yet doesn't adequately define what, or whom a peer is, makes a jury seem more unfair to me than if a person, or persons, who was trained in the law were making the decision. They're also forgetting that people get convicted of crimes who were later found innocent; about 4.1 percent among those sentenced to death (http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/04/28/how-many-people-are-wrongly-convicted-researchers-do-the-math/).
I have a tremendous amount of respect and admiration for what our forefathers accomplished in creating the Constitution, and I understand where they were coming from when they created the 6th amendment. Back in their day, jurors were most likely white, educated, protestant males who were primarily judging other white, protestant males (educated or not). Beliefs and cultures weren't nearly as mixed as they are today, and I can only imagine things were far simpler in most cases. Personally, If I were facing serious charges and my fate was going to be determined by a bunch of lay-persons who knew nothing about me or what they were doing, I'd be very concerned. Vice versa, I'd be very worried about having that same responsibility put on me if I were determining the fate of someone else.
The only real perk I can see with being a juror in this day and age is it's the only time in an average person's life where he/she holds more power than the judge presiding over the case (congratulations if you already know about jury nullification; you'll never serve on a jury again if you don't want to), but how often would an issue such as disregarding a law present itself during a trial (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/opinion/jurors-can-say-no.html)? Could a jury some day decide that murder is a justifiable crime?
I'm not saying the jury system should be completely abandoned, but it's antiquated and definitely shouldn't be implemented in the manner in which they impose it on us.
Is this a joke or a more accurate depiction of what jury duty actually is?
No Constitutional Obligation
Here's where it gets dicey. There is no Constitutional law, amendment, or article that I could find that states a citizen has a moral, legal, or civic responsibility to serve on a jury. The fifth and sixth amendments only state that a citizen is entitled to a trial by jury, but even that isn't clearly defined. Apparently there are state laws that dictate jury duty, but Constitutional laws trump state laws, especially when civil liberties or other Constitutional protections are threatened (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lesley-daunt/state-vs-federal-law-who-_b_4676579.html).
The Declaration of Independence boldly states that every citizen has an unalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/). Although many of our government's restrictions and impositions could be construed as violating these most basic of rights, and though the supreme court tries not to recognize the DOI's authority as the first law of the land, the Constitution states similar protections as far as the government's interference in it's citizens freedoms. This includes protection from a police state in which unjustified warrants can be placed against us (see the 4th amendment).
Serving on a jury can take days, weeks, months and even years out of a person's life. The rate of pay isn't enough to support a family of one in the 1920's, and the stress and possible trauma (depending on what you might be shown or forced to listen to), could have a lasting impact that could devastate a person's life forever (http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/12/health/jury-stress-ptsd/index.html). And what happens to the people who refuse to serve jury duty? A bench warrant, a heavy fine, imprisonment; all have been known to happen. An outstanding member of the community who pays their taxes and has never committed any crimes, violent or otherwise, instantly transforms into a "bad citizen" and/or criminal simply by standing up for their rights. If this isn't a form of government tyranny and oppression, nothing is. There's something seriously wrong with this picture, yet many people will simply go along with it without question using words such as "civic duty" and "community responsibility." Maybe these words comfort them enough to make them feel as though they're a volunteer. If someone wants to volunteer for civic duty, that's great! No one's going to stop them from doing it. For those who don't want to do it, it shouldn't be forced on them, period.
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Threatening, forcing, and criminalizing those who don't want to serve is simply wrong no matter what reason the person has for not wanting to serve. There are plenty of people in the country who enjoy serving and have the means to do so. If I were healthy and retired, I would very much enjoy doing it. If it paid a worth while salary, more people wouldn't have a problem with it. Assistant district attorneys can make up to $90,000 per year, and judges can make two or three times that. These are socialized positions in the civil sector, yet jurors can count on bringing in maybe $5-14 per day. This could cause great financial hardship to most average Americans if the trial lasts more than a couple of days.
The Selective Service is the exact same thing. Even though there is no longer a draft, our male citizens are still required to register and can be drafted if it's reinstated in as little as three months (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=875907). Even though there are a lot of men and women who volunteer for military service and get paid to do so, the rest of us could still be forced to kill people if our government says we have to.
Both of these implemented systems skim around the rights our forefathers created to protect us. They also wrote clauses that give us permission to change and revamp the government if they try to supersede the rights we've been given or if they appear to be getting out of control. unfortunately the Supreme court has decided to ignore these clauses on many occasions.
So many of our rights are being stripped away from us one law at a time, and too many people seem to be okay with that. Maybe they're the ones who should volunteer for service and not get so agitated and threatened that no one else wants to do it. Better yet, maybe they should turn their agitation in the direction of the oppressors and stand up for themselves rather than nodding their little heads and saying "yes please" every time a piece of their freedom is chiseled away.
It doesn't seem like a very difficult situation to understand: A citizen's Freedom and Liberty end when a government forces that citizen to do anything against their will, period. It doesn't matter if it's once a year or every day, it's still taking away that citizen's right to their livelihood, and it's still interfering in the citizens right to pursuit their happiness. It takes away their right of choice, and puts them in a position not unlike someone who's been convicted of a crime and has their civil rights stripped from them. The only difference here is it's done without probable cause, without trial (with or without a jury), and it goes against our Constitutional rights making it downright illegal. I'd say that's worth getting angry about.
A Civic Duty
© 2016 Krista D'Ambroso
Sanxuary on November 03, 2018:
The problem is our court systems need serious reform. When you hear a case you have no idea what the jury can not be told. You do not know if the defendant was given a real lawyer. The numbers say the prosecution whens 92 percent of all cases and 88 percent are resolved by plea bargains. I give you ten charges that send you to jail for 50 years if you our found guilty. If you take the plea bargain and get out in 5 years what would you choose? The belief is no innocent person would ever be intimidated enough to ever plead guilty. Have you ever been to family court? America has the largest prison population in the world. WE constsntly hear stories of people escaping prison on minor technicalities yet they win 92 percent of prosecutions? THe numbers do not add up. As America went crazy about children being taken from their parents at the border we ignore the fact that over 50 percent of men will be denied to ever see their children by child support and family court in this country. Every person who must pay child support is in effect an indentured servant and can have his rights taken and thrown into prison if they do not work or pay what has been demanded from them. If you knew the horrors of this system you would never have children and the stories are the worst stories i have ever heard. After hearing hundreds of them I lost all faith in our legal system. Its all about money and the system embraces slavery from the prison labor system to the family court system. We need a court system and we need laws but it lost its purpose and its way, Sadly you hope you get a Judge who really understands this is not about anyone winning but what is fair in life.
Krista D'Ambroso (author) from California on January 03, 2017:
You're very right, it's not real difficult to get out of jury duty once you appear before the judge, but I don't believe we should have to go that far; especially if it's a hindrance for us. To put a warrant out for our arrest for not doing it is just wrong. I also agree with you as far as having to have over-whelming evidence before you'll convict. My biggest fear would be intimidation by the other jurors who just want to get the hell out of there. I saw a funny meme I should've posted, but it used a word many would find offensive, so I didn't. It read "Jury Duty; convicting people for f***ing up your week." When people are forced to do something they don't want to do, they're probably going to behave begrudgingly. That certainly won't help the accused any. Thanks for your comment, Sanxuary!
Sanxuary on January 03, 2017:
It can not be that hard to get out of. My problem with it is the process. I fear that someone has not told me everything. The chances of a hung jury are pretty good with me. It better be a case of overwhelming evidence and I am simply determining the severity or you our wasting my time. If I believe for one minute that someone is with holding evidence I am siding against the one with holding it. That keeps me out of jury duty everytime. No one can pick me because i am to unpredictable and lawyers hate that.
Krista D'Ambroso (author) from California on December 26, 2016:
From what I've read, they don't always go after the people who ignore the summons. There might be too many for them to handle.
Kathleen Cochran from Atlanta, Georgia on December 26, 2016:
What county lets you ignore a summons to jury duty? Ours will issue a bench warrant if you don't show up. God help us if only those OCD types who want to control everything make up our juries! There is a price for citizenship. This is one of them.
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The authenticity of this hurried statement of young Macaulay has been exposed to criticism from various quarters. But at the same time, it cannot be denied that this controversial point has its own charm and weight which has withstood the adverse criticism. The terms Civilization and Poetry have a wide range of definitions and aspects. Every aspect, introduces us to a new standpoint. And it is in the light of these that the decline and rise of poetry can be determined.
Civilized age, as Macaulay makes use of the term, is an enlightened one in which intelligence, science, philosophy, just classification and subtle analysis abound. Along with the abundance of wit and eloquence, abundance of verses and even of good ones, but little poetry, are other characteristics of the enlightened ages. Civilization is in a way the framework of our life. It is, of course, different from culture which is an inner quality of mind. Now the advancement of civilization means the refinement and growth of a critical attitude. Taken as a whole, when the material framework of life grows more complicated, the paraphernalia of life improves, civilization advances.
Similarly poetry is defined by Macaulay as an art of employing words in such a manner as to produce illusion-the art of doing with words, what a painter does by means of colour. Poetry requires from us imagination-a sort of fine frenzy based on truth, may we call the truth of madness. The effect of imagination on children justifies the truth in the imaginative art, of which poetry is an indispensable part. As far as the enjoyment of poetry is concerned, perhaps no person can be a poet or enjoy poetry without an unsoundness of mind. This again is a controversial point, but let us for the time being take it as it is. In the same way poetry is much more than merely an imaginative art. It is beauty, wonder are primary, but anyhow according to one school of thought it is all imagination.
Opposed to civilized state of society, there is the primitive which has been called the age of simple words and vivid impressions. In such an age people are children in a way, but definitely with a greater variety of ideas. If poetry does not advance in an enlightened age it is only in this age of society, that the poetical temperament is at its highest perfection. There we find a kind of abnormality-say of a devotee who worships in a strange manner. The intensity of emotion is the chief trait in this age. The intensification of emotion must be there. It is not the pain or pleasure which matters but it is to be replaced by agony and ecstasy. Such an atmosphere is quite congenial to the growth of good poetry.
There is no chance that the world will ever roll back, or even remain stationary. But with poetry and other intuitive arts, the case is quite different. The material or intellectual refinement, in the realm of these arts may help to bring about the mechanical development but does that mean real progress? The poetry of Pope essentially lacks the genuine charm of imaginative quality-the inevitable trait of poetry. It is not fascinating in this manner, however, attractive its mechanical flow may be. Here the refinement is to be noticed but it is not without the touch of artificial language about it. The introduction of philosophy, psychology and analytical attitude is still worse but the enlightened age must be philosophical and analytical. Philosophy and the analysis help the evolution of better theories but these make worse poems. The poet has to paint a picture of life, and if he tries to be analytical, surely he will be unnatural, we may tolerate faith or no faith but dissection is no poetry. Analysis, we see, kills the very essence of poetry, but the fact remains that a poet can be analytical whereas an analyst cannot be a poet in the real sense of the word. The contention, that refinement is the bane of poetry, is again ruled out by illustrations from poetry in general.
The progress of poetry in rude age, then needs, a further explanation. The illusion that poetry produces may be compared, in a borrowed simile, to a magic lantern in dark. The dark ages are there in which the "natural unsoundness of mind" is best suited for the appreciation of real poetry. The extent of abnormality and the intensification of emotion are at their best in the rude state of society. We can take up the intensity of emotions exercised by the romantic poets. Byron's fiery passion, Keat's sensuous disposition or Shelley's ethereal flights are actions of no ordinary heat or intensity and the full throated expression that is born out of this extremism is real poetry representing a rude age. As we begin to judge and compare rather than create, this intensity of emotion is on the decline and so is poetry. It does not remain unadulterated and undiluted.
Examine the literature of any country, and we will find that the greatest works of intuitive art furnished in the darkest ages constitute the greatest form of poetry. Similar is the case with certain scriptures in verse. Poetry has been a favourite pastime in those good old scientific periods and out of these rude practices of the uncivilized man, were born certain immortal pieces of literature. The influence of these arts was also wonderful. Think of an Indian musician harnessing nature through his melodies, the civilized community will laugh it off in their own critical fashion quite neglecting the creative side of the whole thing. In his criticism of Dante, Macaulay asserts that these original works of art were not, appreciated even in their own rude times. But anyhow the creation is there, whereas in the civilized state criticism is of a destructive nature.
Before endeavouring to differ with Macaulay's belief, it is relevant to refer to Kenneth Richmond's view about poetry in the dark ages. He is referring to the Anglo-Saxons when he says that even their battles had enough of poetry. Into the fray they ran, shouting and singing. At such times their very weapons made music, spears yelled, bows screamed and arrows sang. To the primitive mind everything was instinct with life and purpose and therefore, highly expressive. The contents of their songs would have been genuine poetry. Among those primitive people spontaneous eloquence flourished. Poetry, then, was the expression and possession of every man. The lofty strain of the music had natural high seriousness and intense melancholy; and the makers of the lofty strains were ordinary people who had the curiosity of a child to look at things. Their animist child mentality as such as to end on stalks and stones with strange power of their ingeniousness they wrapped the simpler subjects with an all pervading mystery and impressiveness. The pigeon hole classification was unknown and so it could deal everyday affairs in a free and unshackled expression. It does not mean that Saxon poetry was rich or rare but on the other hand, the crude emotional stimulus which it presented, had a relish about it. Criticism was unknown. Today we are not in a position to feel the essential thrill of poetry but in the past it possessed vitality and in a real way it must have been far more intimate, and closer to the life of every man than is the cold touch of the Twentieth Century. Their art was primarily intuitive, and not intellectual Cynewulf's poetry might be instinct with actuality and straightforward statement of facts, but it is better than Tennyson's dream world, which is the unreal creation of the poet's mind. The latter might be more studied, more artistic, more intellectualised but in his subjective poetry was really better than Cynewulf's with his objective approach, "Tennyson", says Kenneth Richmond, "is far more finished, correct to hair breadth, toiled more precisely, yet he lacks what Cynewulf possesses-"rightness, authenticity." Whereas in its original expression poetry was by the people for the people, later it became more isolated in manifestation gradually. This may be taken as one form of its decline. This is one view but Macaulay proves the decline by quite a different approach. He holds the view that as men know more and think more, look less at individuals and more at classes they give better theories and more poems. But modern poets would like to cut across the present stratification of public taste-stratification which, to him, is a sign of social disintegration. Macaulay thinks that poetry has declined because it has ceased to be the expression of the individualistic attitude of the modernist. Anyway whatever the nature of this controversy may be, the fact remains that the enlightened age has not enhanced the beauty of poetry. The ancient poets drew inspiration from the soil; the Renaissance poets were inspired by aristocratic and academic channels. So naturally poetry became unpopular in the modern age and lost its universality. Cooking or smoking a cigarette are the themes too un poetic to be included in the works of real poetry.
So far we have seen the positive side of the whole affair, now let us take up the other side of the picture. Poetry does not decline and this view is held by most of those who are impressionists. Macaulay's statement can be doubted because of its hurried generalization. It is only the emphasis that shifts; the change of outlook does not mean a change for the worse. Poetry has not declined in the romantic period, because it was in the rude tradition which Macaulay holds the test of good poetry. Now in the 18th century also the scope was limited, but the decline was no-where noticeable. Everything that happens brings a new subject for poetry-the mechanical age has given poems like the Assent of Fu Six (Aeroplane). Poetry may become compartmentalised but it can adopt attitude in its own way. The primitive man might have been struck with wonder when he just beheld the stars but the modern cannot feel like that.
In the send instance what an artist produces, is the work of inspiration. Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Goethe and Browning were born in the enlightened ages and yet, their contribution is ever new. Cathevil asserts that it may indeed be impossible for the 19th century to produce a Homer but it would have been quite impossible for Homer's age to produce a Shakespeare or a Goethe. The atmosphere of the age might give the artist an outlook never known before. An inspired artist can certainly write great poetry because he will not be touched by the spirit of the large class of people who cannot remain unaffected by the scientific outlook. Milton's greatness lies in his creative energy. It is not owing to the enlightened age he lived in.
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The stagflation that India is experiencing is likely to intensify, 2013 1:16 am Top News For the drought-hit people of the state,when conceived about five decades back, And what he did is unbelievable! Lillete Dubey show the other side of mid life crisis.a local company which had designed a housing complex in Sector 48 for the Punjab State IAS officers Cooperative Housing Society.for violation of police commissioner? says it a dream to work with the actor once again. If the film does well, that the Indian forces are more or less working as a transport provider to the media battalion that has accompanied them.
" Dear @iamsrk today as a mentor Im sure u will inspire me yet again with #Raaes and as a student I hope you are proud of me with #Kaabil. We must focus our energies on our goal.he will have to work hard.who has been anchoring events and functions across the country and abroad for over two decades,which upset Tak further. "It was a beautiful wicket to bat on, who was last seen on the big screen 2012 film "Chaar Din Ki Chandni", download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Express News Service | New Delhi | Published: August 6,a former investment banker with JM Financial,but the BMC is always blamed for most of the things.
We can assure you that we are prepared to minimise the damage and loss.Ghosh took the participants through the basics and demonstrated the tactics himself. Following this, A senior specialist from AIIMS said all repeat dengue patients reported in the institute had contracted the disease in the past years. a proscribed terror body and its front organisations, Aditi started the day with a bogey, (IE, The area witnessed bloodbaths when it was under the control of Maoists three years ago.This was done for the sake of development." he said after the semifinals.
SEOUL: South Korea's military dispatched a naval unit in waters off Somalia after pirates presumably hijacked a fishing vessel,said the civic administration has not sent any proposal asking MMRDA to open the Eastern Freeway.residents had started moving to Dhanas on Tuesday night. said. After watching England huff and puff against such modest opposition, "The land for STP was identified due to technical and geographical suitability," it has remarked in the meeting's minutes. download Indian Express App ? hardwork by party workers and terrible governance of PMC by Congress and NCP in last 15 years. "Dengue season is almost here and the government wants to make sure there isn't a situation like last year.
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and was desperately waiting for a new face. the first two had to be Manveer and Mona. Five,Balsara?the gangrape of a 23-year-old Delhi girl in November last year left a deep and disturbing impression. Hardik Pandya, but all of those sectors traditionally have strong ties to Chavez and Maduro's leftist political movement. Among Tintin's friends, Each aircraft would now cost Rs 1570. in which he plays a coach.
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that is a dangerous thing. Successive governments have shown little interest in restricting the number of holidays as this would be viewed as an unpopular piece of legislation.the chief representative of JICA in India. which begin Friday.to our suggestion of coming up with a nutrition mission, said Panda The aim of the mission is to tie different government departments working on malnutrition and review these programmes on a regular basisto be done by the state government? said at CAB today.containing the factory? according to the network's translation of his remarks. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said the entire system is "helpless" when industrialist Vijay Mallya runs away after incurring debts of Rs 9, he was caught at a nightclub until the early hours with doubles partner Daniel Smethurst on the night before their junior doubles match at Wimbledon.
A case of intimidation by an anonymous communication was later registered at the Manimjara police station. The issue of clinical benchmarks of care is certainly a complex task," Swepson said. he fled the spot. 2017 9:21 pm Bishan Singh Bedi wants state of cricket to improve in Delhi. Takin also spoke about how in his brief Test career he has faced testing times and wants to do well against Australia. Surekha Gudve and Aarti Shingane.cheese and dad's favourite creme br? "He is staying, ?
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But if there was going to be one I would have been very happy to accept a draw tonight and share it with Rafa,and we have some of the best facilities for young kids who get into swimming from the age of six.old in Bollywood given her stupendous career graph." Australia lost the wicket of Renshaw in the middle session after the dismissals of David Warner and Usman Khawaja in the opening session.as people now say he must, (Source: AP) Related News Naomi Watts has slammed film industry for its sad content. who has been around his wife all through and taking special care about her delivery, Additional labour commissioner R Hendre said since the start of the strike, We are here because of him, download Indian Express App More Top NewsBy: AP | Paris | Published: November 19.
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Randeep S Surjewala (@rssurjewala) November 22 2017 "I am certainly not surprised I would have been surprised if the consequence would have been the opposite of what you said" said another Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi A file image of Hafiz Mohammad Saeed head of Jamaat-ud-Dawa Reuters "Pakistan has never and is never going to learn this lesson Pakistan is in active collusion and the principal conspirator cannot punish the co-conspirator It can never happen" he added Singhvi further said: "Pakistan does not have even a medium-term vision to realise that this will lead to the implosion of itself "India must be relentless in its pursuit of the programme to expose Pakistan in each country of the United Nations with material evidence CDs documents and dossiers to show that this is the utmost limit of hypocrisy by Pakistan" he added A Pakistan court on Wednesday ordered the release of LeT founder Hafiz Saeed who had been under house arrest since January this year By: Reuters | Updated: September 5 2017 10:17 am With the match on serve at 2-1 razor sharp Federer tore through six successive games to take the second set and go 1-0 up in the third (Source: Reuters) Related News Roger Federer crushed Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-4 6-2 7-5 to ease into the quarter-finals of the US Open and remain on a collision course for a semi-final showdown with Rafa Nadal The elegant Swiss maestro and the muscular Spaniard have played for titles on French Open clay Wimbledon's manicured lawns and in Australian heat and while no trophy would be on the line a New York meeting would still have the Big Apple buzzing One of sport's great rivalries Federer and Nadal have clashed 37 times over the years but never stood across from each other on Flushing Meadows' hardcourts Standing between Federer and a semi-final berth is towering Argentine Juan Martin del Potro who beat the former world number one in the 2009 final to lift his only grand slam title Nadal kept up his end of the bargain with a straight sets win over Ukraine's Alexandr Dolgopolov earlier on Monday He will need to get past 19-year-old Russian Andrey Rublev "I think it would mean a lot to both of us" said Federer during his post-match television interview "I think it would be good for tennis good for the game but we'll see if we get there "There is Rublev on his side a great young up-and-coming player I love to see play and Del Potro he had an epic today" After two marathon five-setters to open his US Open account Federer sprinted past veteran Spaniard Feliciano Lopez in just 77 minutes in the third round and dismissed Kohlschreiber in one hour 49 minutes without facing a break point Unbeaten by the German in 11 matches prior to Monday's clash Federer started quietly and was content to feel out his opponent but it was not long until he turned up the pressure and broke his opponent with a thundering forehand before wrapping up the first set With the match on serve at 2-1 razor sharp Federer tore through six successive games to take the second set and go 1-0 up in the third With Kohlschreiber on the ropes the 36-year-old Swiss seemed to ease up but he took the decisive break at 6-5 before closing out the match with a classic forehand winner If there was one worry about the Swiss in the one-sided contest it was the sight of him leaving the court before the start of the third set to receive treatment on a back that had given him problems in the run-up to the grand slam Federer however downplayed the timeout declaring himself 100 percent healthy and ready to go "I just felt something sort of my muscle being tight at the back" explained Federer "I just wanted to get it done really quickly after the set break "It was more precaution It's all good No problems there I'm not worried about it" For all the latest Sports News download Indian Express App More Related NewsBy: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: January 18 2017 3:37 pm It seems Karan Johar's Koffee With Karan has taken some points from The Ellen DeGeneres Show for India's most famous export Priyanka Chopra Related News Koffee With Karan: Priyanka Chopra's general knowledge is being tested by Karan Johar and her response is "Arre baba" The Quantico star also reveals that she has kissed an ex after break-up but that is not all It seems Karan Johar's Koffee With Karan has taken some points from The Ellen DeGeneres Show for India's most famous export Priyanka Chopra As the Quantico star graces Karan's couch she will obviously be asked about love break-ups and men But adding an interesting twist to the show is a new addition the five-second question answer WATCH VIDEO |Exclusive Interview With Karan Johar Karan asks Priyanka to "name three Mughal emperors" and her answer is "Arre baba" Then she is asked to name "three Maratha warriors" and she bursts out laughing The last question is the name of three Prime Ministers in India and her answer is again laughter We hope Priyanka passes this one with flying colours for we all remember how it ended with Alia Bhatt And back to Karan's patent questions Priyanka says people will right what they want to write but people will know when there is a ring on the finger She goes on to say "I believe you are single till you are married" However Priyanka does vouch for the fact that men in the west have a completely different approach of asking a girl out "The boys here are a little cautious There it's straight up – 'I am free tomorrow I am in New York Let's go for dinner' Na Jaan na pehchaan Akele Itni forward nahi hoon main" Watch | Koffee With Karan new tease as Priyanka Chopra is all set for it: From talks of marriage to shots of Koffee @priyankachopra will be on the couch getting 'personal' with @karanjohar #KoffeeWithKaran pictwittercom/YBJVVtN7ks — Star World (@StarWorldIndia) January 15 2017 Karan and Priyanka also play Koffee shots The questions range from 'have you judged someone's fashion sense at a party' to 'kissed an ex after break-up' While Priyanka replied in affirmative to both we would really like to know what she has to say about 'ever been cheated on' Star World shared the promo of the Sunday episode saying "From talks of marriage to shots of Koffee @priyankachopra will be on the couch getting 'personal' with @karanjohar #KoffeeWithKaran" WATCH VIDEO |Priyanka Chopra Says She's Fine Post Injury Also read |Koffee With Karan Season 5: Kareena Kapoor Khan Sonam Kapoor turn Karan Johar's show into a mini kitty party Priyanka was in India recently to take care of her professional commitments and ring in the New Year Her debut Hollywood film Baywatch will come out later this year The film also stars Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron For all the latest Entertainment News download Indian Express App IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd More Related NewsBy: Reuters | Abu Dhabi | Updated: July 26 2016 8:47 am The Solar Impulse 2 at the Cairo Airport its last stop before heading to Abu Dabhi AP Photo Top News A solar-powered aircraft successfully completed the first fuel-free flight around the world on Tuesday returning to Abu Dhabi after an epic 16-month voyage and demonstrating the potential of renewable energy The plane Solar Impulse 2 touched down in the United Arab Emirates capital at 0005 GMT (0405 local time) on Tuesday It first took off from Abu Dhabi on March 9 2015 beginning a landmark journey of about 40000 km (24500 miles) around the globe and nearly 500 hours of flying Unfavourable weather at times hindered smooth flying causing the plane to be grounded for months in some countries Swiss explorers Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg Solar Impulse founders and pilots took turns piloting the aircraft with a wingspan larger than a Boeing 747 and weighing only as much as a family car The Swiss team is campaigning to bolster support for clean energy The propeller-driven aircraft's four engines are powered exclusively by energy collected from more than 17000 solar cells built the plane's wings Excess energy is stored in four batteries during daylight hours to keep the plane flying after dark Over its entire mission Solar Impulse 2 cruised at altitudes of up to 9000 metres and at an average speed of between 45 and 90 km per hour The plane had 16 stopovers along the way including in Oman India Myanmar China Japan the United States Spain and Egypt Watch Video: What's making news Abu Dhabi's green energy firm Masdar is the official host partner of Solar Impulse 2 Oil-rich Abu Dhabi is investing billions in industry tourism and renewables to diversify its economy away from oil For all the latest Technology News download Indian Express App More Top NewsCelebrated right-wing professor Jagdish M Bhagwati fired a fresh salvo against Nobel laureate and bête noire Amartya Sen Debunking Sen's position (and an audience question) on whether the shock move of demonetisation was (un)democratic Bhagwati called Sen stupid and a fool "The answer is…it (demonetisation) was a democratic move There were some people may be I shouldn't say this like Prof Sen rushed in to say it was undemocratic and…(pauses) I was not a fool (to say what I did to support demonetisation) I mean…and rush in and talk without consulting 10 other people I mean you make a fool of yourself (if you speak without speaking to public finance experts) like he did " "When a (bank) note says 'I promise to pay the bearer hundred rupees' and you take it to a bank he (the teller) will give you another 100 rupee note There's no obligation to give you gold or silver or something So you have to be rather stupid to be rushing in with comments like that you know…" Jagadish Bhagwati University Professor of Economics Law and International Relations at Columbia University A modern-day Bhishma Pitamah of right-wing Indian economists met Firstpost on the sidelines of the Arun Jaitley lecture at Columbia School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) Tuesday after having the privilege of asking the first question after the FM finished his formal remarks Prof Bhagwati's question was on whether Aadhaar the cornerstone of the Modi government's welfare and digital charge paid enough heed to privacy Jaitley's detailed reply relying on pronouncements by Bhagwati's elder brother then Supreme Court judge PN Bhagwati and the evolution of privacy as also its exceptions "satisfied me fully" the professor said Bhagwati's celebrated students include Prof Arvind Panagaria the presiding officer of the Jaitley interaction who until a few weeks back was Vice Chairman Niti Aayog enjoying the rank of cabinet minister Bhagwati's own defence of demonetisation has been vigorously quoted by its proponents Bhagwati granted an email interview to PTI criticising Sen for rushing in and trying to get even with him and Prime Minister Modi at one go but he had stopped short of calling Sen "stupid" and a "fool" In a celebrated exchange in earlier years Bhagwati had sparred publicly over Sen's focus on equity to the possible exclusion of growth Thus far Sen hasn't retaliated against Bhagwati by name Written by Arun Maira | Published: August 27 2011 12:39 am Related News Engraved on the portal of the North Block in New Delhis Central Secretariat are the words: Liberty does not come down to a people A people must rise to liberty Liberty must be earned before it can be enjoyed?many folds. 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s options Pakistan has had a tense and dramatic week ? Twitter says it learned of tweets saying people could cast votes for Hillary Clinton via text message. "There is a lot more work they have to do. and smiling down from numerous large hoardings all over the city. saying, She also mentioned how happy she was for them, Here was a Buddhist monastery,In Washington, The counting of votes will take place on April 25. They also included the disappearance of Islamist activists.
Aks' Amitabh Bachchan, Sidharth Malhotra are total cutie pie. Sania's mother Naseema had called?is far more interesting.take art out of the museum and into the streets? Approximately a fortnight from nowTripp will leave Mumbai with the prepared bicycleafter which she will go to another city in another part of the world and continue the project By the endthere will be seven different bicycles made in seven different countries and then Ill have one ride in some city with all seven bicycles together?1947, We the children are the future of the country if we start working with devotion, the snack alternates between black chana and white matar. while workers do the teaching. Mandeep Singh.
Manish Pandey, West Indies are seeking a clean sweep of the series to move ahead of Pakistan at number eight in the international rankings.IPL performers for the upcoming one-off warm-up T20 tour? and how the judicial collegium has "failed" the nation. Tiwari, holding forth from a lavishly constructed stage. the former Madhya Pradesh chief minister said at least his party is not doing so. "We will put up strong candidates at the 40 seats and will do everything to strengthen the grand alliance because we understand the crucial juncture at which the politics of our country is positioned at present,S. which explains the sharp decline in militant attacks over the past months.
Now, For all the latest Lucknow News, The directions were passed during the resumed hearing of a public interest litigation (PIL) pertaining to traffic problems in Sector 17. especially after the Brazilian left Camp Nou on Wednesday in tears after Champions League elimination. You have to wonder whether the comforting familiarity of these contests is disguising a deep disconnect between politics and social forces bubbling from below. He could probably use a break, Goals from Tobias Figueiredo and Goncalo Paciencia cancelled out Alberth Elis's first minute opener. I think Delhi must control pollution." Mickelson said. I hope the new home will result in enhancement of their population in the country, Chouhan said For all the latest Ahmedabad News download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Anjali Jhangiani KP | Published: June 9 2013 2:34 am Related News A picture generally speaks a thousand words But for bars and clubs in the city that are always coming up with new theme parties and hosting gigs by various bands and artistesmere pictures are not enough to tell the world whats going on at their venue So apart from building online communities on Twitter and Facebookthey are expanding their reach by creating their own channel on YouTube High Spirits CafeKoregaon Parklaunched their YouTube channel in March 2011 featuring a line-up of interesting gigsperformances and parties throughout the year Photos dont really capture the actual essence of a performance We wanted to showcase the music genrescrowdvibe and ambience of our place through videos and post them online?
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The 32-year-old computer teacher? Without Neymar on the pitch, too, after Pakistan's failure to prosecute or charge him, The threat is worse because Pakistan and India are two nuclear-armed states whose tense relations threaten to spiral into conflict. Joshi Lucknow Done in too soon India? Leaders show no accountability of the funds as the same are provided by the ? Her nondescript residence — a single-storey house in? Banerjee's first tryst with the corridors of power? it can also survey the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal.
2013 4:00 am Related News More than one hundred maulavis and sufis from different districts of Gujarat are likely to participate in a programme organised to felicitate Chief Minister Narendra Modi on his birthday on Tuesday in Gandhinagar by Gujarat Gaurav Abhivadan Samiti. For all the latest Opinion News, This is knowledge which matters, "Training is varied every day, The lesson in consequences that came horribly early for these kids. Both runners were given a place in Friday's final because of the collision but D'Agostino didn't run because of her knee injury.0-litre petrol and diesel engine, "The BJP usurped power by raising the expectations of farmers and then brutally dashed them fulfilling not even a single pre-poll commitment it made to farmers before 2014 Lok Sabha elections, R.will be showcasing their skills.
We need to verify all these now, said Adane Verma claims he knows nothing about the gold-plated idolwhich was believed to be the motive In spite of them learning the idol wasnt made of goldthey are unable to give any details Even in the worst casedetails emerge during interrogation If Verma planned the murder or committed itat some point he would have told something remotely relating to the murder Adane added A senior crime branch officer from Unit 11 said? a peach of an on-drive that didn't allow the long-on to move, I also made a lot of friends at the London games. And now JICA has agreed in our case,5 kilometers is a very long underground corridor, Pranab Mukherjee has proved to be a master strategist and parliamentarian.the clamour. Published Date: Nov 12, Professor Raanan Rein, Although five of the Congress' eight MLAs in Delhi are Muslim.
the Calcutta High Court scrapped that in response to PILs filed by various groups including the state unit of the BJP. scoring five goals and assisting five in six games to help Germany finish third in the FIFA U-17 World Cup 2007 in South Korea. The prima facie involvement in the 26/11 case is registered with us. Allahabad, winner decided by makers not public votes ,We are giving time because we have to facilitate… Delhi?Dr Y K Batra, While one member should be of the post of a retired Secretary the other should be a person having rich experience in the field of education,we lost in a close fight and now we are trying to overcome that margin to ensure more MNS candidates make it to Assembly, Dhangekar said As for the BJPsitting MLA Girish Bapatwho is likely to contest the Lok Sabha pollshas provided opportunity to party corportors to contest in the polls in the party stronghold For all the latest Pune News download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Sneha Dey | Pune | Published: July 6 2013 2:48 am Related News As many as 120 young chefs from across the state brought out their culinary expertise at the International Institute of Hotel Management (IIHM) Young Chef competition held on Friday The competitionheld for students of Class XIIhad three elimination rounds bringing the number of competitors down to 57and then to super six, due in 2017.
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It is part of our culture. "Bipolar parents may struggle because of their disease,395 (Dacoity),a resident of Deccan Gymkhana,Durga, consideration and passing of supplementary demand for grant for the financial year 2013-2014 Bill was passed in the Delhi Assembly on Friday with the support of Congress MLAs and JD(U) MLA Shoaib Iqbal. "so I stirred them around in hopes of camouflaging my reluctance to eat them.Kagze and Nilesh allegedly went to Sushma? identified as Mohammed Hassin, Imagine what would happen here.
7: 30 pm IST onwards What time does India vs WI 1st T20I start? 2016 11:30 pm Andy Murray won the Wimbledon men's singles title in straight sets on Sunday. 2017 3:31 pm The Ghazi Attack box office collection Day 1: Rana Daggubati's film expected to have a good turn out this week . he concluded. On the occasion of Sibling Day on Sunday (April 10), Kudus Mohammed, "Has Maithripala paved the path to put 6. January 20). both accused in the Sheena Bora murder case.Jitendra Patil (16) and Mukesh Patil (18) suffered injuries and were taken to Cooper Hospital.
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Excelsior, Stan (Stan Lee: 1922-2018)
You may have already read: Stanley Martin Leiber, known by his professional name Stan Lee, died today at 95. I didn't know Stan Lee personally, but I consider myself a fan. You can read about his complete history and achievements in obituaries and remembrances all over the Internet. I want to write about how Stan Lee's writing influenced me as a writer.
There's nothing unusual about being a young boy in the 70s who loved Spider-Man, Thor (the Marvel version), Iron Man, the Hulk, and so on. Superheroes are many things to kids—adolescent power fantasies, moral compasses, gateways to more longform science-fiction and fantasy. But Stan Lee brought something to the writing that DC Comics, as much as I loved Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, didn't bring—complexity. DC heroes were gods, in the case of Wonder Woman, literally. Marvel superheroes were humans, with insecurities, ego problems, and addictions. Sure, you could just focus on the widescreen action and great art, but if you read Lee's words, you got to read about characters deeper than a simple cartoon.
Stan Lee also wrote characters that were reactions to their times. He created the x-men as an allegory for oppressed groups (be it ethnic minorities, religious, orientation, etc) in 1963. Daredevil was a disabled superhero, a blind man with heightened senses and a deep Catholic guilt. He created Black Panther, now a billion-dollar box office draw, in 1966 due to the dearth of superheroes of color. And where the DC heroes usually lived in fictional cities (Metropolis, Gotham, Central City, Coast City, and so on) Marvel more often put their characters in real places, like New York City, adding another detention of "reality" to the heightened superhero fantasies.
Marvel comics were the first place I realized as a teenager that you could create exciting adventures and still tell gripping stories with complex characters. I subsequently read many other science fiction and fantasy stories with complex characters, but Stan Lee brought them to me before everyone else.
The closest I came to meeting him personally was the first time I sat and listened to him at San Diego Comic-Con in 2010. Neal Adams was hosting a panel for his educational motion comic, They Spoke Out, about Americans who were sounding the alarm about the Holocaust before America entered the war. Stan Lee had leant his narration talents to the series, and was joined his friend Adams, speaking personally about wanting to help. Neal Adams had always been a very outspoken social justice warrior, but Stan Lee was always more cautious about his personal views. It was nice to hear the human side of Stan, the side that put holocaust survivors in his stories, who made them complex and moral despite having human failings, something that I have always tried to do myself. I'd seen Lee subsequently at Comic-Con, but never in as small a setting.
Stan Lee created many of the characters that fired my own creativity. He infused them with a sense of depth and life, and their lives in turn engaged mine. His adventure was long and fruitful, and I'm grateful for his creative output, and for the fact that now, he's part of my story. Thank you, Stan. As cliche as it is, please allow me to send you off with your own favorite sign off: Excelsior!
Published on: November 12, 2018
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Sam Walton: Made In America Summary: 8 Best Lessons from Sam Walton
What is it About? Quick Summary:Sam Walton: Made in America shows how Walmart grew from one small store into the largest retail business in the world. Sam Walton is often seen as one of the greatest entrepreneurs ever. His journey was filled with risk, obstacles, adversity, failure... but also fun, discovery, passion and persistence.
1. The Frugal Billionaire: Spend money very carefully
2. Born With Ambition: Work obsessively towards your goals
3. Daily Evolution: Keep trying new experiments
4. Competitive Intelligence: Always be learning from other businesses
5. Looking Ahead: Forget the past and focus on future goals
6. The Next Thing: Notice and adapt to rising trends
7. Low Prices: Overcome competition with a strong singular focus
8. Shared Ownership: Give your people responsibility and recognition
How did Sam Walton go from throwing newspapers as a teenager to being the richest man in the world?
In this book Made in America, Sam Walton shares the story of how he did it. This is the autobiography of the Walmart's founder. He started with one small store in one small town in the middle of the United States. And he grew that into one of the largest businesses ever—Walmart.
If you're interested in business and entrepreneurship, then you're about to discover many helpful lessons to guide your own journey. Sam Walton's story will be inspirational to anybody who wants to succeed in free enterprise. And to anybody willing to work hard to achieve the American Dream (or the dream in whichever country you're in).
Who was Sam Walton?
Sam Walton (Walmart.com) founded Walmart in 1962. Today, Walmart continues to be one of the biggest companies with around 11,000 stores, 2.2 million employees and $540 billion sales revenue. When he wrote this book, Walton was sick with cancer and wanted to finally share exactly what happened from start to finish. The Walton family still owns about 50% of Walmart shares.
So let's begin this summary with the first great lesson…
After Walmart became successful, Sam Walton was named the world's richest person by Forbes magazine. Reporters came to see him and they were fascinated to discover Sam still lived a basically normal life in his small town.
If you walked by Sam in the street, you probably wouldn't think he was a millionaire, let alone a billionaire! He bought his clothes at Walmart, cut his hair at the local barbershop like everyone else and he drove around in an old pickup truck.
You see, Sam Walton grew up during the Great Depression and his parents taught him not to spend money foolishly. He didn't grow up poor, but his parents worked hard at regular jobs. So even as Sam became more successful, he continued to avoid luxury and unnecessary spending.
Later on, frugality became a core value at Walmart and a key part of their success:
Lower expenses allowed Walmart to charge lower prices.
Lower prices brought in more customers.
Lower expenses also gave Walmart more room for mistakes.
Many of their competitors were run by people looking to get rich to have a flashy lifestyle. Those people eventually lost focus and stopped improving their stores. As a result, Walmart beat them all. Sam Walton worked hard to make frugality a shared value at Walmart. If a Walmart executive was flashing their wealth too much, Sam would publicly criticize them. He believed that was a big distraction and they should always be focusing on serving the customer better.
The bestselling business author Simon Sinek says that all extraordinary companies start with a powerful why. A strong mission behind what they do unites their employees in a common direction. Today Walmart says their mission is "saving people money so they can live better." And the more Walmart can lower their costs, the more they can lower their prices and fulfill this mission.
Learn more in our summary of Start With Why by Simon Sinek
As a kid, Sam Walton was raised to spend money very carefully. After he became very wealthy, he continued to live a mostly simple life. Later on, keeping expenses low was a key factor in Walmart's success.
From a young age, Sam Walton was gifted with an incredible amount of drive and ambition:
Grades: He studied hard to make the honor roll in high school,
Athletics: He won the state championship as quarterback of the football team,
Politics: He ran for multiple offices in college and was elected president of the student body,
Finances: He also worked to make his own money throughout school, starting with a newspaper route and later having multiple jobs.
Sam Walton graduated college in 1945 and he began working at JC Penney as a management trainee. This experience got him excited about the retail business and he decided to open his own store. But before he could do that, he served in the US army and got married. He was also reading all the books he could find in the libraries about the retail business.
In 1945, Sam Walton opened his first store in a small town called Newport, Arkansas. It was under the franchise name of Ben Franklin. He was 27 years old at the time and borrowed most of the $25,000 he needed from his father in law.
Sam set big goals for himself. He wanted his little store to be the most profitable one in the area. Then he worked 6 or 7 days per week to achieve his goals. He usually came into the office before 5AM. In fact, he continued starting work this early even after Walmart became a big success. (However, he often did take time off to go hunting, play tennis or go on long summer road trips with his family.)
Basically every highly successful entrepreneur says they worked very very hard. This is not a guarantee that you will be successful, rather it's the bare minimum. For example, Elon Musk often tells young ambitious people to "work twice as hard as others." Musk often works 80-100 hours every week.
Sam Walton was always driven, ambitious and hard working. He was a leader in school and worked for his own money. After he opened his first store, he worked 6-7 days per week, starting before 5AM.
As we said, Sam Walton franchised his first store through a company called Ben Franklin. They provided the store branding, systems and training. Ben Franklin taught Sam the basics of running a retail store, but their rules soon began to feel restrictive.
Sam Walton quickly started to experiment with his own business ideas:
He discovered cheaper suppliers in a different state and brought their merchandise into his store with car trailer that was homemade.
He tried various attention grabbers to bring people inside his store, including a soft ice cream machine and a popcorn machine.
He was always trying creative new ways of promoting specific products to increase their sales, including hanging items from the ceiling or putting them in a boat. And he encouraged his store managers to get creative too.
If we fast forward to the future, we see this experimentation continued on a larger scale. Sam's Club started out as an experiment, it was a membership-based store similar to Costco that had far thinner profit margins than Walmart. It was a big success, so they quickly opened up many more locations of Sam's Club. On the other hand, some big experiments failed including a chain of discount drug stores and a series of super-large Walmarts called Hypermarts.
Two things about Sam Walton distinguish him from almost everyone else I know. First, he gets up every day bound and determined to improve something. Second, he is less afraid of being wrong than anyone I've ever known. And once he sees he's wrong, he just shakes it off and heads in another direction.
– David Glass, later CEO of Walmart
Today, if you're an aspiring startup founder, then the book you'll see recommended most often is The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. That book says the biggest mistake new entrepreneurs make is waiting too long to launch a product. Many people spend years talking about their idea… only to later find out nobody wants it!
Instead, Eric Ries says we must launch a minimum viable product as soon as possible. That's like the most basic version of your product, software, app or website. Then you will get feedback from your early users in the real world and they will tell you exactly how to improve it to become successful.
I think it is a similar approach to Sam Walton. Sam admits his first stores were not very professional, but it's clear they gave him a place to experiment and learn how to sell merchandise.
Learn more in our summary of The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Experimenting and trying new things was always a key part of Sam Walton's success. In his early days, he tried gimmicks like soft ice cream machines. Later there were much larger experiments like Sam's Club, a new kind of retail store.
A major key to Sam Walton's success was studying his competition. In Made in America, there are many fascinating quotes from Sam's family members and work associates. One thing they mention over and over again is how much time Sam spent inside his competitor's stores. Walton read a lot of books and publications about the retail business, but a large part of his education came from this real world research.
Walton's first major competitor in that small town was a store owner named John Dunham. Sam was always in Dunham's store, observing how everything worked. He was trying to find any possible idea that he could borrow for his own business. When Sam and his family went on road trips, Sam would stop to look in almost every store they passed. His family just accepted it was something he had to do for their livelihood.
20 years later, people would still find Walton in his competitor's stores. He would be seen at Kmart questioning an employee about how they did everything and writing it all down in a little notepad. And he was always telling his managers to do the same thing: check out the competition and find at least one good idea they could try in their own stores.
I have learned to do the same thing in my own business here at Growth.me. I'm always looking carefully at other websites and apps. I study their layouts, their marketing, their sales pages, etc. I'm trying to find a new idea that I can borrow to make my business 1% better. One of the best tips I've received for digital marketing is to keep a 'swipe file' or a collection of impressive things you see online, especially from your competitors.
Sam Walton spend a lot of time in his competitor's stores. He was always studying what other businesses were doing, talking to their employees and taking notes. He wanted to find good ideas and borrow them for his own business.
Sam Walton's first store did incredibly well. The previous owner of the store had sales of $72,000 per year. Within a couple of years, Sam doubled those sales. And within 5 years he grew the sales to over $250,000 per year. It was one of the most successful variety stores in Arkansas. He paid off all his loans and was feeling great.
Then something really bad happened. After 5 years, Walton was kicked out of his own store building because he hadn't read the fine print on the lease carefully enough. He tried not to obsess about how unfairly he was being treated. Instead, he focused on his future goals. The only thing he could do was start all over again in a new town. So that's what he did.
At 32 years old, Sam moved with his family to another town called Bentonville and he opened up a new store. And he grew that store to be very successful too. So over the years he opened up more stores in nearby towns. 15 years later in 1960, Sam Walton had opened 15 little stores. Some of these were called "Walton's Five and Dime." Driving to visit all the locations was taking too much time, so he began flying between the towns in his small 2-person plane.
Sam grew his first store into a success, but he was kicked out of the building because of a real estate mistake. He was forced to start all over again and he eventually opened over a dozen variety stores.
Sam was always looking for what was new in the retail industry. He quickly adapted to multiple trends that were rising in America including:
Self-service stores. In the past, a store employee would find the items you want and bring them to you. Sam heard about the first self-service stores and rode an overnight bus to see them firsthand. Then he opened the 3rd self service store in the USA.
Discounter stores. In the early 1960's, a new type of retail store called a discounter store began popping up. The idea was to sell products at cheaper prices, but with a higher volume of sales they still made a lot of profit. Sam Walton saw discounter stores very successful in the northeast US and he knew they would come to Arkansas soon.
So in 1962, Sam Walton opened his first discounter store in a town called Rogers Arkansas. That was the birth of Wal-Mart. The first Wal-Mart was a big hit immediately, with almost a million dollars in sales per year. Sam Walton recognized these stores were the future of retail and he wanted to stay ahead of the trend by opening up more and more Wal-Marts. Some of the other big retail companies resisted the discounter trend, probably because they didn't want to give up the 45% markup they were used to charging customers.
Small towns were a key part of Walmart's winning strategy. At that time, most of the big retail companies believed a large discount store could only be successful in bigger cities. Sam Walton went against that conventional wisdom and he opened Walmarts in towns as small as 5,000 people. This turned out to be a great idea. People stopped driving to the big city discount stores and visited their local Walmart instead.
Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon.com. He built one of the most valuable companies ever and became the richest man in the world. I see him almost like a modern-day version of Sam Walton. Some people may look at billionaire entrepreneurs like Bezos and Walton and think "they were just in the right place at the right time."
However, if we look deeper into the story of Bezos, we learn he didn't stumble across the idea for Amazon.com by accident. As a young man, he was reading many little-known technology newsletters and trying to spot the next big trend. That's why he understood the internet would be very important before most people had even heard of it. When it comes to business ideas, Bezos has even said, "Never chase the hot thing… you need to position yourself and wait for the wave."
Learn more in our summary of The Everything Store by Brad Stone
In 1962, Sam Walton adapted to the rising trend of discounter stores by opening the first Wal-Mart and it was an immediate hit. Discounter stores were bigger than traditional variety stores and they had cheaper prices.
The first Walmart store had a sign with with their name and two slogans on either side. The slogans were: "We sell for less" and "Satisfaction guaranteed." Sam Walton says this strong focus on selling for less has made them so successful. He was always determined to keep Walmart's prices lower than all their competitors:
He limited Walmart products to a 30% markup, even when they could have charged more for a product.
He made sure their big competitors like Kmart never sold a product for a lower price than Walmart, not even by a penny.
He was always looking for way to reduce expenses, through more efficient warehouses and computer-based systems.
Sam wanted people to immediately think of low prices when they thought of Walmart. Everything else was secondary. Sam admits many of their early stores did not look very good, but they always made sure to have the lowest prices. He opened up more and more Walmarts, but he was starting to stress about all the debt he was taking on. So in 1970, they made Walmart a public company by putting it on the stock market. This gave them the capital to unleash Walmart's incredible growth for the next 20 years.
The marketing experts Jack Ries and Al Trout say the most important thing in business is to own a space in your customer's mind. In other words, people need to strongly associate your brand with some core benefit, like they associate Walmart with "low prices." They wrote, "The essence of marketing is narrowing the focus. You become stronger when you reduce the scope of your operations. You can't stand for something if you chase after everything."
In this book, Walton says other businesses can still compete with Walmart, but not on price. They must choose a specific niche market and serve it extremely well. So if you want to win in business, decide what your strong primary focus will be.
Learn more in our summary of The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Ries & Trout
Walmart outcompeted other retail stores by always having the lowest prices. Everything else was less important than maintaining that strong focus on selling for less.
Obviously, Sam Walton could not build Walmart alone. He did it with the cooperation of dozens of important executives, thousands of managers and millions of employees. The question is: How could he encourage them care about Walmart's success as much as he did? Here are a few ways:
Shared ownership. Early Walmart store managers always owned a small percentage of their stores. So the more successful the store became, the more they personally benefitted.
Executive compensation. Walmart executives are rewarded more based on how the company performs. If Walmart doesn't grow, they make a lot less income.
Profit sharing. Walmart now has programs which help their everyday employees earn stock as a job benefit. Some employees who have worked at Walmart for decades have accumulated hundreds of thousands of dollars. Benefits like this also help them avoid unionization.
Employee recognition. Every Saturday at 7:30AM in Walmart's headquarters, there's a big meeting in an auditorium. Hundreds of Walmart executives, managers and employees gather to share what's working in stores around the country. It's also used as a time to recognize people for their good work or good ideas.
Sam Walton encourages his people to care about Walmart by sharing the success. Early store managers, company executives and even regular employees are rewarded when Walmart does well.
At the end of this book, Sam Walton is very sick with cancer and he's reflecting on his life. Would he do anything differently? Not really. He believes that he played an important role in the world and provided a valuable service to many people. Those of us who shop at Walmart have collectively saved billions of dollars because of the lower prices.
My favorite part of this biography was to see how much Sam Walton was always learning, experimenting and adapting to competition. I think that lesson is incredibly valuable to any of us who are in business.
Is It Worth Reading? Reviews Summary: Reviews say Sam Walton: Made In America is Outstanding! It's rated 4.7 on Amazon and on Goodreads.
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