This guide explains the non-technical skills necessary to make Six Sigma really work ? how to get a new team started, how to lead Six Sigma team meetings, how to avoid the leading causes of failure for a Six Sigma project, and how to plan the people side of a Six Sigma project.[...]
A companion reference to "Rath and Strong's Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide", this book provides instructions for understanding and implementing key Six Sigma tools. It shows your project team leaders and members how to: understand each tool and its Six Sigma application; and select the best tools for c[...]
This book offers two proven tools for success in one step-by-step pocket guide. Whether you've been using Six Sigma for years or are just starting to, you know it takes hard work to get it right. But 'WorkOut', developed by General Electric, can increase Six Sigma's success. "Rath & Strong's WorkOut[...]
""Food and Fantasy" offers a fresh look at Japanese cuisine through its pre-modern to early modern history. Rath's treatment of the cuisines that existed in the world of the shoguns and what these reflect of taste and aesthetics, life and politics, offers lush detail. We have a taste of the meals th[...]
How did you feel after your last interaction with another person?
Did that person -- your spouse, best friend, co-worker, or even a stranger -- "fill your bucket" by making you more positive? Or did that person "dip from your bucket," leaving you more negative than before?
"How Full Is You[...]
THE BASIS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL TV SENSATION BABYLON BERLINVolker Kutscher, author of the international bestseller Babylon Berlin, continues his Gereon Rath Mystery series with The Silent Death as a police inspector investigates the crime and corruption of a decadent 1930s Berlin in the shadows of t[...]
"James Ellroy fans will welcome Kutscher's first novel and series launch, a fast-paced blend of murder and corruption sent in 1929 Berlin."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)Babylon Berlin is the first book in the international-bestselling series from Volker Kutscher that centers on Detective Gereo[...]
The Basis for the International TV Sensation Babylon Berlin
One of CrimeReads's Favorite Crime Books of the Year (Selected by Paul French)
" Kutscher's] trick is ingenious...He's created a portrait of an era through the lense of genre fiction."--The New York Times
Volker Kutscher,[...]
Featuring a wide spectrum of advice culled from the expertise of eight professional artists, a guide to the art of watercolor provides an introduction to the form's basics; detailed discussion of such advanced topics as materials, light, and composition; and twenty step-by-step demonstrations. Origi[...]
Organized around a simple metaphor of a dipper and a bucket --- already familiar to thousands of people --- How Full is Your Bucket? shows how even the smallest interactions we have with others every day profoundly affect our relationships, productivity, health, and longevity.Co-author Donald O. Cli[...]
Organized around a simple metaphor of a dipper and a bucket, How Full is Your Bucket? shows how even the smallest interactions we have with others every day profoundly affect our relationships, productivity, health, and longevity. Co-author Donald O. Clifton studied the effects of positive and negat[...]
In this inspirational handbook, the discoveries of Donald O. Clifton, the grandfather of positive psychology, show how the briefest interactions affect people's relationships, productivity, health, and longevity. 100,000 first printing.[...]
Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day?
Chances are, you don't. All too often, our natural talents go untapped. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths.
To help people uncover their ta[...]
From the author of the long-running number 1 bestseller "StrengthsFinder 2.0" comes a landmark study of great leaders, teams, and the reasons why people follow. Nearly a decade ago, Gallup unveiled the results of a landmark 30-year research project that ignited a global conversation on the topic of [...]
Organized around a simple metaphor of a dipper and a bucket, How Full Is Your Bucket? shows how even the briefest interactions every day profoundly affect people's relationships, productivity, health, and longevity. Coauthor Donald O. Clifton, hailed as the grandfather of positive psychology, spent [...]
This title shows the five most important elements of a life well-lived and how they are interdependent. Contrary to what many people believe, well-being isn't just about happiness. Nor is it about only wealth, success, or physical health. In fact, focusing on any one of these elements in isolation e[...]