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Do you want your young child to develop a love of languages? This book introduces kids ages three to six to everyday French vocabulary using the same simple techniques that help children build vocabulary in their native language.
Illustrated with motivational photographs, this book shows how excessive training is slowing down your progress. It covers topics such as: the importance of working to the "point of failure"; Mentzer's use of the early Nautilus machines: a "Heavy Duty" seminar; "Most Productive" Routine; and advanced "Heavy Duty" training techniques.
"Toyota Kata gets to the essence of how Toyota manages continuous improvement and human ingenuity, through its improvement kata and coaching kata. Mike Rother explains why typical companies fail to understand the core of lean and make limited progressΓÇöand what it takes to make it a real part of your culture."ΓÇöJeffrey K. Liker, bestselling author of The Toyota Way"[Toyota Kata is] one of the stepping stones that will usher in a new era of management thinking."ΓÇöThe Systems Thinker"How any organization in any industry can progress from old-fashioned management by results to a strikingly different and better way."ΓÇöJames P. Womack, Chairman and Founder, Lean Enterprise Institute"Practicing the improvement kata is perhaps the best way we''ve found so far for actualizing PDCA in an organization."ΓÇöJohn Shook, Chairman and CEO, Lean Enterprise InstituteThis game-changing book puts you behind the curtain at Toyota, providing new insight into the legendary automaker''s management practices and offering practical guidance for leading and developing people in a way that makes the best use of their brainpower.Drawing on six years of research into Toyota''s employee-management routines, Toyota Kata examines and elucidates, for the first time, the company''s organizational routines--called kata--that power its success with continuous improvement and adaptation. The book also reaches beyond Toyota to explain issues of human behavior in organizations and provide specific answers to questions such as:How can we make improvement and adaptation part of everyday work throughout the organization?How can we develop and utilize the capability of everyone in the organization to repeatedly work toward and achieve new levels of performance?How can we give an organization the power to handle dynamic, unpredictable situations and keep satisfying customers? Mike Rother explains how to improve our prevailing management approach through the use of two kata: Improvement Kata--a repeating routine of establishing challenging target conditions, working step-by-step through obstacles, and always learning from the problems we encounter; and Coaching Kata: a pattern of teaching the improvement kata to employees at every level to ensure it motivates their ways of thinking and acting.With clear detail, an abundance of practical examples, and a cohesive explanation from start to finish, Toyota Kata gives executives and managers at any level actionable routines of thought and behavior that produce superior results and sustained competitive advantage.
A venture capitalist and popular radio show host teams up with a New York Times bestselling author to explain how to craft and deliver a winning pitch for any occasion by tapping into the evolutionary power of the human brain
The bestselling guide to buying stocks, from the founder of Investor's Business Daily-now completely revised and updated
Title: How to Repair Briggs and Stratton Engines, 4th Ed., Author: Paul Dempsey, Publication Year: 2007-07-16, Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe, Language: eng
Offers strategies and wisdom from research and interviews with over 120 real life millionaire real estate investors. This book helps you learn how to develop the mind-set and financial strategies of a millionaire investor. It offers a blend of insights, instruction and inspiration and is intended for both novices and veterans.
"It takes thousands of hours of sailing to get the kind of knowledge contained in this book." -- from the Foreword by Bruce Schwab The ONLY bible for how to sail your boat fast, safe, and alone Solo sailing is within any sailor's grasp with a little forethought--and this essential guide.Got a 35-foot sailboat? No problem. Is the wind blowing 20 knots? No problem. Are you racing offshore overnight? Even better. Singlehander Andrew Evans learned the hard way how to sail and race alone--with lots of mishaps, including broaches and a near tumbling over a waterfall--and in Singlehanded Sailing he shares the techniques, tips, and tactics he has developed to make his solo sailing adventures safe and enriching.Learn everything you need to know to meet any solo challenge, including:Managing the power consumption aboard a boat to feed the electric autopilotSetting and gybing a spinnakerFinding time to sleepDealing with heavy weather
A clear, concise guide to Spanish that presents grammar, verbs and vocabulary in order of usefulness, so that students can communicate with confidence almost immediately.
Broken promises, missed deadlines, poor behavior - they don't just make others' lives miserable; they can sap up to 50 percent of organizational performance and account for the vast majority of divorces. This title offers the tools for improving relationships in the workplace and in life and for resolving all these problems - permanently.
Offers a step-by-step technique for sparking breakthrough creativity in advertising - or any field.
Helps you discover the power of Kaizen to make lasting and powerful change in your organization. This guide shows you how to: lower costs - by offering little rewards; raise quality - by reducing mistakes; manage difficult people - one step at a time; boost morale and productivity - in five minutes a day; and sell more - in less time.
Addresses various concerns in the market environment. This title features Tharp's 17-step trading model. It also addresses reward to risk multiples, as well as insightful interviews with top traders, and includes examples and charts.
A resource on art therapy. It features illustrated examples, exercises, and case studies on how art therapy works and how it can be used in health care and mental health counseling. It shows how art therapy can help your patients express and understand emotions, deal with trauma, relieve stress, and manage grief.
Reveals Stan Weinstein's methods for timing investments to produce profitable results. This title includes topics: Stan Weinstein's personal philosophy on investing; the ideal time to buy; refining the buying process; knowing when to sell; selling short; and using the best long-term indicators to spot Bull and Bear markets Odds, ends, and profits.
Reveals tips for preparing effective presentations and shows how to combine those tips with technologies for better visuals. This book provides information on how to prepare different types of charts - pie, bar, column, line, or dot - and when to use each, and recommendations on lettering size, color choice, appropriate chart types.
In this fully updated bestseller, an experienced airline pilot helps readers succeed on the technical pilot interview and advance their careers.
Put into practice today's winning strategy for achieving success in high-end sales!
Covers almost everything you need to know to sew comfort, utility, and style into your boat. This book features many traditional canvas projects: sail covers, awnings, duffel bags, dodgers, and Biminis, wind chutes, and winter covers. It also includes many fabric projects: custom interior cushions, fitted sheets and daycovers, and more.
The encyclopedia of sailboat rigging and marlinspike arts-updated to reflect the latest materials and methods
This thoroughly updated guide gives hobbyists and do-it-yourselfers access to the diagnostic wisdom and repair skills of an experienced technician
Offers a guide technicians tuned up to provide an advantage in global economy. This book shows you how to maximize your profits in today's complex markets by tailoring your application of this powerful tool.
The Missing Link to Toyota-Style Success—LEAN LEADERSHIPWinner of the 2012 Shingo Research and Professional Publications Award“This great book reveals the secret ingredient to lean success: lean leadership. Not only is it a pleasure to read, but it is also deep and enlightening. This book is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in lean: it’s both an eye opener and a game changer.”—Michael Ballé, Ph.D., coauthor of The Gold Mine and The Lean Manager“This will immediately be recognized as the most important book ever published to understand and guide ‘True North Lean’ and the goal of perpetual business excellence.”—Ross E. Robson, President and CEO, DnR Lean, LLC, and the original Director of The Shingo Prize“An excellent book that will shape leadership development for decades to come.”—Karen Martin, Principal, Karen Martin & Associates, and author of The Kaizen Event PlannerAbout the Book:TOYOTA. The name signifies greatness— world-class cars and game-changing business thinking. One key to the Toyota Motor Company’s unprecedented success is its famous production system and its lesser-known product development program. These strategies consider the end user at every turn and have become the model for the global lean business movement.All too often, organizations adopting lean miss the most critical ingredient—lean leadership. Toyota makes enormous investments in carefully selecting and intensively developing leaders who fit its unique philosophy and culture. Thanks to the company’s lean leadership approach, explains Toyota Way author Jeffrey Liker and former Toyota executive Gary Convis, the celebrated carmaker has set into motion a drive for continuous improvement at all levels of its business. This has allowed for:Constant growth: Toyota increased profitability for 58 consecutive years—slowing down only in the face of 2008’s worldwide financial difficulties, the recall crisis, and the worst Japanese earthquake of the century.Unstoppable inventiveness: Toyota’s approach to innovative thinking and problem solving has resulted in top industry ratings and incredible customer satisfaction, while allowing the company to weather these three crises in rapid succession and to come out stronger.Strong branding and respect: Toyota’s reputation was instrumental in the company’s ability to withstand the recalls-driven media storm of 2010. But what looked to some to be a sinking ship is once again running under a full head of steam. Perhaps the Toyota culture had weakened, but lean leadership was the beacon that showed the way back.In fact, writes Liker, the company is “as good and perhaps a better model for lean leadership than it ever has been.” of innovation and growth. Yet, Industry Week reports that just 2 percent of companies using lean processes can likewise claim to have had long-term success. What the other 98 percent lack is unified leadership with a common method and philosophy.If you want to get lean, you have to take it to the leadership level. The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership shows you how.
Offers a reinterpretation of the Keynesian revolution that casts uncertainty, risk, and financial markets as the drivers of boom and bust cycles.
Provides the treatment and management strategies needed to confidently handle both common and rare neurologic conditions. This volume describes the various categories of neurologic disease and the main diseases that constitute each.
A guide to choosing the right foods and supplements, feeling younger, and living longer. It empowers you to take charge of your well-being by pinpointing the relationship between foods and health. It provides food-related information and teaches how to: use nutrition to fight disease; boost immunity; and, slow the effects of aging.
Packed with research, examples, and more actionable content, this book outlines four basic thinking styles - administrator, talker, problem-solver, dreamer - corresponding to the four quadrants of the brain and explains that many are dominated by only one quadrant.
Provides specific tips and strategies that help traders build the emotional intelligence, self awareness, patience, confidence, and sense of responsibility necessary for profiting in the forex market
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