Organisations are most effective when the teams accountable for the organisation's success are performing to the best of their abilities. When the relationships within the team work well, and all members of the team have a clear focus the team has a significant impact on achieving goals and building[...]
Leadership Team Coaching in Practice looks at how leadership team coaching techniques have been applied internationally across a variety of team types and sectors. With expert contributors including chief executives, team coaches, team leaders and consultants, this practical guide offers a range of [...]
Provides detailed explained processes for each phase of Lean Maintenance implementation providing examples, checklists and methodologies. This work is suitable for every plant and facility that is planning, or even thinking of adopting 'Lean' as their mode of operation.[...]
Part of the "Life Cycle Engineering" series, this is a hands-on reference guide for the maintenance or reliability engineer and plant manager. It takes the guiding principles of Lean Manufacturing and Maintenance and applies these concepts to everyday planning and scheduling tasks allowing engineers[...]
Information technology (IT) has transformed human resource management across our society, and its influence on higher education has been profound. Technology Everywhere addresses the dual role played by colleges and universities that must recruit, hire, and train knowledge worker professionals and e[...]
"The Killing of Chief Crazy Horse" is a story of envy, greed, and treachery. In the year after the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse and his half-starved followers finally surrendered to the U.S. Army near Camp Robinson, Nebraska. The reverberations of that event led to the death of the gre[...]
The inventor of the PalmPilot outlines a theory about the human brain's memory system that reveals new information about intelligence, perception, creativity, consciousness, and the human potential for creating intelligent computers. Reprint.[...]
The possibility of violence beneath a thin veneer of civil society is a fact of daily life for twenty-first-century Guatemalans, from field laborers to the president of the country. "Crisis of Governance in Maya Guatemala" explores the causes and consequences of governmental failure by focusing on l[...]
A comprehensive book that covers all aspects of choreography from the most fundamental techniques to highly sophisticated artistic concerns. "The Intimate Act of Choreography" presents the what and how of choreography in a workable format that begins with basics- - time, space, force -- and moves on[...]
YOU DON'T KNOW HER. BUT SHE KNOWS YOU. Rear Window meets Gone Girl, in this exceptional and startling psychological thriller. "Gripping, enthralling - a top-notch thriller and a compulsive read". (S J Watson, bestselling author of Before I Go To Sleep). Rachel catches the same commuter train every m[...]
Welcome to Brazil South America's largest country is booming and tourists are flocking to the culturally rich nation Home of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games, millions of vacationers are excited to explore the country's beaches, carnivals, and world-renowned landmarks (Cristo Red[...]
The exploration into the truth of man's activities is unique, intriguing, and provocative. From a new perspective, one quickly grasps the levels of truth expressed by the media, the arts, writers, painters, architecture, movies, TV, politics, and war, as well as academia and the greatest thinkers an[...]