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A TELEGRAPH MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARA ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEARAN UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEARA RESIDENT MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARIn Never Understood, William Jim tell the story of The Jesus and Mary Chain - one of Britain's greatest guitar bands - for the very first time.A wildly funny and improbably moving chronicle of brotherly strife, feedback, riots, drug and alcohol addiction, eternal outsiders and extreme shyness - and a love letter to the Scottish working-class family - Never Understood is a bona-fide classic of rock 'n' roll literature.'Here is the story of the Reid brothers' rollercoaster life. Scream if you want to go faster: they'll almost certainly oblige'Ian Rankin'Entertaining . . . fraught, funny and occasionally farcical'The Scotsman

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AN UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024For 5 years after they'd swapped sought-after apprenticeships for life on the dole, brothers William and Jim Reid sat up till the early hours in the front room of their parents' East Kilbride council house, plotting their path to world domination over endless cups of tea, with the music turned down low so as not to wake their sleeping sister. They knew they couldn't play in the same band because they'd argue too much, so they'd describe their dream ensembles to each other until finally they realised that these two perfect bands were actually the same band, and the name of that band was The Jesus and Mary Chain. The rest was not silence, and picking up those conversations again more than 40 years later, William and Jim tell the full story of one of Britain's greatest guitar bands for the very first time - a wildly funny and improbably moving chronicle of brotherly strife, feedback, riots, drug and alcohol addiction, eternal outsiders and extreme shyness, that also somehow manages to be a love letter to the Scottish working-class family.

The elites are intent on wiping out cash. More and more businesses are refusing to use cash. Cash users are being turned into second-class citizens in a two-tier society. Cui bono? Who benefits from the elimination of cash?The elites hate cash because they are unable to spy on cash users, control them, and monetize them. Cash is not tied to a specific person. It’s a universal form of exchange. Cash can be passed from one person to another without the system ever knowing. Cash allows you to purchase anonymously. The seller does not know who you are. They can’t put you on a list and push marketing material at you every day. They can’t sell your data to others. They can’t make additional money out of you, using processes you don’t even know about.Cards are a particular form of exchange. Only one person, the person identified by the card, can use a specific card. All transactions are locked and tracked and associated uniquely with the card user. The card user’s entire purchase history is available to Big Tech and even Big Government. The card user’s financial behavior is fully known. They can be targeted for advertising. Their psychological profile can be calculated, allowing politicians to target them at elections.Cash is freedom. Cash is anonymity. Cash users are the Resistance. They are the Rebels. That’s why the elites want to end the use of cash. They want to crush the resistance to Big Tech and the Surveillance Society.It’s your duty as a free person to defend cash and fight off the Big Brother State, seeking to know everything about you, and have you monitored transaction by transaction.Join the rebellion. Hold on to your cash. Don’t let them take it from you. Don’t let them track you like a chipped dog.

Leading to Greatness is a hands-on how-to leadership development program designed to guide leaders to self and organizational excellence. By applying five core leadership principles top-level executives will be primed to take their organizations and teams into the future. Principle 1: Define a crystal-clear understanding of values and purpose—and never deviate.Principle 2: Recognize core strengths and align them with passion.Principle 3: Identify and engage the right people and get them in the right seats; no leader excels at everything.Principle 4: Learn to manage energy—not time—to become fully engaged in life (and thus, leadership).Principle 5: Develop a consistent inner discipline to achieve exceptional results.Author Jim Reid combines his decades of top-level leadership and coaching experience with the best research and science available to deliver to leaders a practical and actionable plan that when consistently applied in one’s life becomes a transformative experience. Part guidebook, part workbook and part work study, Leading to Greatness delivers proof of concept of Reid’s program through detailed case studies from level-5 leaders across North America. The stunning results speak for themselves.If you are looking to take your performance—and the performance of your team—to the next level, look no further. Leading to Greatness is your ultimate tool for exceptional results and sustained success.

"Jim Reid is a true artist of the leadership-development craft." - Jim Collins, author of Good to Great

Leading to Greatnessis a hands-on how-to leadership development program designed to guide leaders to self and organizational excellence. By applying five core leadership principles top-level executives will be primed to take their organizations and teams into the future.

Principle 1: Define a crystal-clear understanding of values and purpose—and never deviate.Principle 2: Recognize core strengths and align them with passion.Principle 3: Identify and engage the right people and get them in the right seats; no leader excels at everything.Principle 4: Learn to manage energy—not time—to become fully engaged in life (and thus, leadership).Principle 5: Develop a consistent inner discipline to achieve exceptional results.AuthorJim Reid combines his decades of top-level leadership and coaching experience with the best research and science available to deliver to leaders a practical and actionable plan that when consistently applied in one’s life becomes a transformative experience. Part guidebook, part workbook and part work study, Leading to Greatness delivers proofof concept of Reid’s program through detailed case studies from level-5leaders across North America. The stunning results speak for themselves.If you are looking to take your performance—and the performance of your team—to the next level, look no further. Leading to Greatness is your ultimate tool for exceptional results and sustained success.

LA HISTORIA DE LOS JESUS AND MARY CHAIN CONTADA POR LOS HERMANOS REIDDurante cinco años, los hermanos William y Jim Reid conversaron hasta altas horas de la madrugada en el salón de la casa de sus padres en East Kilbride, Escocia, imaginando cómo sería su grupo de rock ideal. Sabían que no podían tocar en la misma banda porque discutirían sin parar, así que se describían mutuamente sus grupos de ensueño, hasta que finalmente se percataron de que esas dos bandas perfectas eran en realidad la misma, y que el nombre de ese grupo tenía que ser The Jesus and Mary Chain. Poco después grabarían un single para la recién creada discográfica de Alan McGee, Creation, que los puso en boca de todos, y de allí forjarían uno de los mejores álbumes de rock de todos los tiempos: Psychocandy. Seguirían una serie de conciertos caóticos, inundados de acoples, imprevisibles y beodos que cimentaron la leyenda.Retomando esas conversaciones nocturnas más de cuarenta años después, William y Jim cuentan por primera vez la historia completa y sin tapujos de una de las bandas de guitarras más influyentes e imperecederas del rock británico: una crónica hilarante y conmovedora de luchas fratricidas, feedback, disturbios y adicciones contada a dos voces por dos sempiternos outsiders.