1999 Directory of Texas Manufacturers

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Marketing Heaven.......2000-06-22

If you are trying to contact decision makers in your particular market area this book is a wonder. You at a glance know all of the pertinent information regaring the company you wish to contact. Or perhaps from reviewing the information in this book you know that this is not a call you need to waste your time on because they are not the market you are currently targeting. Get the updated book every year to stay current with your information.

1999 Ohio Manufacturers Directory (Ohio Manufacturers Directory, 1999)

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1999 Ohio Manufacturers Directory (Ohio Manufacturers Directory, 1999)

Manufacturer: Manufacturers' News, Inc.
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1999 Wisconsin Manufacturers Register: Profiling Wisconsin's 12,658 Manufacturing Establishments (Annual)

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1999 Wisconsin Manufacturers Register: Profiling Wisconsin's 12,658 Manufacturing Establishments (Annual)

Manufacturer: Manufacturers News
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Directory of Colorado Manufacturers 1999-2000

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Directory of Colorado Manufacturers 1999-2000

Manufacturer: Business Research Division University of Colo
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ASIN: 0894781081

Harris Southeast Manufacturers Directory 1999 (Harris Manufacturers Directory Southeast)

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Harris Southeast Manufacturers Directory 1999 (Harris Manufacturers Directory Southeast)

Manufacturer: Harris Infosource
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ASIN: 1556006586

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Manufacturers Directory 1999

Manufacturer: Info USA Inc
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ASIN: 1561059986

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This book explores the legal issues inherent in resolving troubled banking sectors in transitional economies. Bank failures are a recurrent phenomenon in both developed and developing countries, as shown by the crises in the last ten years in the USA, Japan, Scandinavian countries, the Baltic countries, Bulgaria, South East Asia and Latin America. Banks in transitional economies face additional challenges as they become intermediaries in lending the public's savings, rather than mere conduits for the central financing plan. They have to ensure repayment of loans when they no longer receive subsidies to compensate their losses to the same degree as before. As a result of these challenges, almost all these countries have suffered numerous bank failures in the past eight years, with negative consequences for bank owners, managers, depositors and other creditors. The absence, in many situations, of appropriate crisis management procedures and bank insolvency laws hinders the success or pace of the transition process. This book is the result of a research seminar organised by the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, and the Office of the General Counsel of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The authors include distinguished US and European professors of banking law, government policymakers, prominent lawyers and economists from the European Union, the EBRD and the International Monetary Fund, and senior industry executives from law firms and financial institutions.

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Developing a Tough-Minded Climate for Results
Joe D. Batten
Manufacturer: Resource Publications (OR)
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1592444059

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Developing a Tough-Minded Climate.....for Results.
J. D. Batten
Manufacturer: American Management Association
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NXPU36

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Developing a Tough-Minded Climate...for Results
J. D. Batten
Manufacturer: American Management Association
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ASIN: B000GSGR2G

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Effective, but tests your patience

Contractors Pricing Guide: Residential Detailed Costs, 2000
R S Means
Manufacturer: Robert S Means Co
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0876295588

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Effective, but tests your patience.......2004-03-11

Essentially, a quality reference book. I'm a remodeler and general contractor in Madison, WI. I've used this book to establish budgetary figures for homes I buy, renovate and flip. Being accurate with this book means being patient and flipping back and forth to find every little detail, but the time pays off - Means brings me in at or just above my actual costs. Couldn't ask for much more, except the layout according to the CSI Master Format doesn't make it easy to find all the right items and numbers. Also, Means doesn't allow for things like the style, height or complexity of the roof when determining cost to install shingles - so just be careful and remember to add in that contingency at the end. And don't forget to add local sales tax, if you have to pay it. (In my opinion, this book is better than Means Residential Repair and Remodel guide - that book gives you less options. However, it is organized they way you might layout a project. It's also easier to get a final number, but you defintely have to up your contingency factor because it's not as accurate.) If you're a remodeler, buy Detailed Residential Costs and use it - it'll save you time and money in the long run.

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Residential Construction Costs 2000

Manufacturer: Saylor Pubns
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ASIN: 0931708826

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RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION COSTS 2000

Unit construction costs for Residential construction. Open Shop and Union installation costs, plus material cost and man-hours for each of 6,500 line item. Arranged in 16 Division CSI Masterformat system. Also includes 1,600 line items of Assembly Costs, illustrations, glossary, location factors and indexes. A CD-ROM with an estimating program including two databases (Union & Open Shop) and the Assemblies is part of the package. Ideal in preparing detail estimates and bids.

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2007 Edition: Excellent reference for budgeting or estimating

Excellent book if you are building your own home

Residential Cost Data, 2000: Square Foot Costs, Systems Cost, Unit Costs (Means Residential Cost Data, 2000)

Manufacturer: Robert S Means Co
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0876295561

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2007 Edition: Excellent reference for budgeting or estimating.......2006-12-28

The 2006 Edition is a worthwhile buy and pays for itself quickly. I wish I had bought it much earlier in my home budgeting process. The information is well organized in a user-friendly manner. It even has cost adjustment factors for hundreds of cities. This should help you to be prepared somewhat before you start negotiating with builders and contractors.

Excellent book if you are building your own home.......1999-08-25

This is an excellent book for estimating the costs involved in building a new home. It provides enough detail to get a good idea on costs. It is not as detailed as some of the other books out there but for a person like myself it has proved to be an invaluable tool. And it is easy enough to use as opposed to some of the other books out there.

Residential Square Foot Building Costs 2000

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Residential Square Foot Building Costs 2000

Manufacturer: Saylor Pubns
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RESIDENTIAL SQUARE FOOT BUILDING COSTS 2000 This manual provides "single family" building cost data that can be used for conceptual estimating, planning, appraisal and insurance placement. The Square Foot Cost Section has complete building costs by Square Foot of Floor Area for 6 different classes of construction. Includes Functional Assembly and Landscape Costs sections. Ideal for quick and reliable estimates.

Contractors Pricing Guide: Residential Square Foot Costs, 2000

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Contractors Pricing Guide: Residential Square Foot Costs, 2000
R S Means
Manufacturer: R.S. Means Company
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0876295596

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The fourth volume in a new series providing in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. This volume is devoted to the Type VII, the standard German sea-going submarine that in many versions and variants was built in huge numbers right through World War II and did more than any other weapon to threaten Allied victory.

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save your money.......2006-09-02

I waited months for this book and what a disapointment when it arrived today. The book is a total waste of money, just some black & white photos of U-Boats I have seen before. Large color photos of other builder's finished models, side profiles of boats I have seen else where, photos of parts and box art.

No hints or information on building a Type VII U-Boat, "THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR SOMEONE WHO IS BUILDING A U-BOAT!". Look on the net if your looking for hints to help build the perfect boat.

Cannot get this book new.......2005-12-30

Don't bother ordering new from Amazon, I waited almost 3 months before they finally admitted they could not get this book. Order it used from somebody else.

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For over four decades, Betty Taymor has been a prominent activist in the Democratic party and an outspoken advocate of women's candidacy for elective office. In this lively memoir, she weaves together the fascinating story of her own experiences in politics with hard-hitting narrative on women's deplorable lack of success in breaking through the political glass ceiling in Massachusetts.

Taymor reflects on a remarkable career that was set against the backdrop of both turbulent and promising times-McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, the Kennedy presidency, the Vietnam war, and the crusade for women's rights. She first describes her formative years and then her pathbreaking involvement with the Americans for Democratic Action and the Democratic State and National Committees. She recalls her terms as an eight-time delegate to the Democratic National Convention, her two unsuccessful runs for state representative, and her work on the campaign trail for candidates at the local, state, and national levels. Taymor delves into the reasons why women have struggled to attain elective office and power in the Commonwealth, and considers how they can overcome the persistent and overwhelming domination of the male leadership.

During her many years in the political arena and as an educator of women for government service, Taymor came into contact with many public leaders, and her memoir is populated with such figures as John F. Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson, Eugene McCarthy, Robert Drinan, Tip O'Neill, Michael Dukakis, Louise Day Hicks, and Evelyn Murphy.

Rich with colorful anecdotes, Running Against the Wind provides an insider's view of the political culture in Massachusetts and offers a provocative look at the special problems and challenges facing women candidates.

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A WAKE-UP CALL FOR AMERICAN WOMEN - AND MEN.......2000-06-25

If I could have read this book or met its author before I moved to Florida twenty years ago, I'd probably never have forsaken either politics or Massachusetts. My daughter, who had Amazon.com send this book to me, wrote: "Mom, this is the book you should have written!" So, as a born Republican politician and vice-chairman of the Mass. Republican State Committee in the 6o's, I was more than a little surprised to learn at first glance that Betty Taymor was an outstanding Democrat leader in state and national politics. I became engrossed in her heroic battle as an ardent advocate of and super-role model for ALL women in politics, - whatever their party, race, color or creed. I was reminded at every turn-of-the-page of my own frustrating struggles - not so much with Democrats as with the gender problem of unenlightened MEN (and women)of my own party. And this message is not just for Mass. Though it is much needed there, it applies to every political party across the nation. As Betty Taymor says in conclusion: "I am certain that if we guide young girls in developing their leadership potential, if men begin to welcome women ................." A unique and important read!

Running Against the Wind: The Struggle of Women in Massachusetts Politics

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Running Against the Wind: The Struggle of Women in Massachusetts Politics
Betty Taymor
Manufacturer: Northeastern University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J2SKEW

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A dreamer unafraid, even in legal defiance, to activate his dreams, J. Howard witnessed, with the exception of one, those dreams' fruition. Decades ahead of time's acceptance, he was a free-thinker in countless areas, among them politics, religion, vegetarianism, dress, home-schooling.

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Picking up where she left off

Self-deceptive thinking knows no bounds

Excellent advice delivered with rapier wit

Solid insight & advice. Highly Recommended

The Seven Deadly Sins of Business: Freeing the Corporate Mind from Doom-Loop Thinking
Eileen C. Shapiro
Manufacturer: Capstone Publishing
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ASIN: 1841120189

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Named one of the top ten books of 1998 by Management General.

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Picking up where she left off.......2006-07-11

Management consultant Eileen Shapiro picks up where she left off in her last book, Fad Surfing in the Boardroom (Addison-Wesley, 1995). There, she tore at the heart of management gurus and fads. In The Seven Deadly Sins of Business: Freeing the Corporate Mind from Doom-Loop Thinking, she focuses on the myths and beliefs underlying most management decisions. She argues, wisely, that the main task of smart managers is to "take, shake, or break." That is, to "decide which of the implicit rules of business to take as givens, which to shake up with minor patches or major revisions, and which to break entirely and then remake." Her seven sins fall under the categories of strategy, organization, or information. The foundation of the book is her take that once rules become known in an organization, it's tough to change them, even if everyone knows they need to be changed.

The book is rich with company examples and includes a second installment of the devil's dictionary she introduced in Fad Surfing, which further debunks the terms commonly thrown around in business. You'll never accept a process, term, fad, technique, or no-brainer decision at face value again.

Self-deceptive thinking knows no bounds.......2003-04-09

It is the author's contention that many businesses are not "focally" aware of the actual rules and mindsets by which they operate. The author has identified seven general areas where businesses "sin" by falling sway to illusory actions and thinking. They operate in a "doom loop of unchallenged beliefs, faulty predictions, incorrect rules, inappropriate actions, and disappointing results." Obviously, there is the potential for severe repercussions for a business and its associated stakeholders for not being firmly grounded in reality.

The author breaks the "sins" into three groupings. The first, the three "Sins of Strategy," is mostly concerned with the disconnection between formal plans and actual company operations and product development and strategies versus marketplace realities. It is here that fine sounding words, such as "quality, empowerment, productivity, low-cost producer, and customer-driven," devoid of concrete content relative to a specific enterprise, are loosely tossed about. Ongoing conversations about strategies, one way to prevent these sins, are sidetracked or distorted by unexamined and unchallenged preconceptions or by the idea-suppressing dominance of top management. The author illustrates the connections that businesses should be making between pricing and costs versus customer benefits and expectations with some simple and interesting models and graphs.

The pseudo empowerment of employees and the substitution of corporate "sizzle" for meeting employee wants and needs are at the heart of the second group of sins, the "Sins of Organization." The ubiquitous corporate claim that "people are our most important asset," is no more than empty rhetoric without considerable investment - both time and money - in the workforce and the subsequent buy-in to the corporation's goals by each employee. It is the sin of "banking on turbo-charged employees" to confer the shell of empowerment on employees with insufficient inner-core skills to make company-enhancing decisions. Perceptive managers should understand the cumulative effect on a business of the hundreds of decisions made every day by inadequately trained employees, especially those in the service sector. The author suggests that employees be trained in the use of an "OODA" strategy for decision-making consisting of the steps of "observation, orientation, decision, and action." The alternative approach of simply not permitting employee discretion is seldom viable.

The sin of "focusing on workplace sizzle" is a very shortsighted approach to employment by businesses. In that view, the offer of a "financial package, some fancy words, a set of marching orders, and penalties for failure to comply" is entirely sufficient for a workforce. That view is often reinforced through carefully crafted internal company surveys that invariably show employees as being happy with this employment relationship. Employees who do not accept the sizzle approach will simply leave or will be dismissed - according to the remainder of this policy. But this is where the myopia of management arises. Such employees usually do not leave. Dissatisfied employees are often not detectable and are not inclined to risk acting in a precipitous manner. The prudent company will realize that for a "willingness factor" to be unleashed, a set of fairly constructed WIF-MEs (what's in it for me) will have to be provided to employees, which includes, among others, adequate and fair pay, good working conditions, training, empowerment, and respect. The commission of this sin can result in companies "charging forward at full throttle, only to realize later how few troops are following in their wake."

The third category of sins, "the sins of information," reinforces the previous sins because they interfere with the information flows that could counter illusory thinking.
In the sin of "taking pride in being a learning organization," those with cherished ideas and secure positions cling to the notion that they and their organizations are open to wide-ranging inputs, but, in actuality, are unwilling to endure the discomfort and ramifications of such openness. Unwanted ideas are deflected in various manners. Closely related is the sin of "investing in sophisticated forward intelligence systems." Despite investment in such intelligence gathering techniques as open-door policies, management by walking around, suggestion boxes, and brown-bag lunches with top management, little intelligence is gleaned. Not surprisingly, the costs, ranging from the penny-ante to some far more severe, to those providing information are not reduced. Management often adopts the pretense of an equal partnership in gathering information, that is, that they downplay the ability to inflict severe consequences to those delivering information. In other cases, the roadblocks to information flow are an obsessive and convenient adherence to lengthy processes that will ensure the staleness and unusability of the information. This category of sins is especially pernicious to organizations in its insidious effects.

There is no doubt that many businesses operate in the modes that the author has detailed. The degree of intent in the commission of these sins can be speculated upon. The sins of strategy fall somewhat into the category of marketing mistakes - something no business would purposely do. The sins of organization, especially creating workplace sizzle, and the sins of information directly impact the power relationships in a business. It is not going too far out on a limb to suggest that these sins are committed to maintain power despite any long-term detrimental effects. In fact, the issue of power and its impact on all of the sins floats on the surface of this book. The author could have addressed the question as to whether the typical structure of US businesses necessarily results in these "sins." Along that line, would democratically organized and operated businesses have the same tendencies to engage in illusory thinking?

The author urges appropriate "take-shake-or-break" action for management: take or accept the implicit rules of a business; shake up the rules with minor patches or major revisions; or break up the rules entirely and begin anew. But the value of this book is in its descriptions of the operating holes and thinking traps into which business can fall. It is one of the more prescient management books that I have read. One of the few that can rate five stars.

Excellent advice delivered with rapier wit.......2000-06-09

If your organisation is planning carefully, implementing flawlessly and managing brilliantly - and still not getting the results it wants, the chances are it is committing one or more of the Seven Deadly Sins of Business. This book is a genuine 'must read'.

Eileen Shapiro follows her own precepts. She claims that many failures of business plans can be traced back to inadequate or faulty observation. Her book is based on very careful observation, backed by a formidable analytical capacity, a rapier wit and direct and forceful writing. It is a sort of modern equivalent for today's executive of the King's clown in the middle ages - a sceptical eye to remind him that he 'is but a man' and therefore at risk of the errors and occasional blindness to which everyone is subject, particularly when seduced by success.

Shapiro goes further and outlines the simple tools which, when used consistently and well, can provide some protection from these errors. If the book were a sermon - and it is far too funny to be that - its text would be her quote from Pogo of the comic strip 'We have found the enemy ... and the enemy is us'.

Her selected sins, in short form, sound like the seven cardinal virtues - but the bite is in the tail:

"* Trusting in your terrific plans ... even though you have lost sight of what your real strategy is. * Reinvesting in your outstanding products ... while the market is moving in a different direction * Focusing on playing to win ... when in fact you're playing the wrong game by the wrong rules. * Assuming a team of turbo-charged employees ... while short changing the investments needed to build workforce judgment and skill * Focusing on workplace sizzle ... but neglecting to provide the motivation that matters * Taking pride in being a learning organization ... even though key decision makers are unable or unwilling to see the facts for the creed. * Investing in sophisticated forward intelligence systems ... while consistently falling backward in the battles that count."

The short Introduction (do *not* skip it) sets the framework, including a brief statement of the sins and their genesis and of the three premises on which the book is based:

* The essence of a manager's job is to make difficult decisions intelligently, in environments of continuing and unpredictable change. * Change is a constant, but is lumpy and a combination of the predictable and the unpredictable. *The enemy of making good decisions is not change per se, which is just a fact of business life, but unchallenged beliefs, which are a matter of managerial choice.

Each Deadly Sin then gets its own chapter, starting with a series of dot points identifying symptoms that each may be present. The chapter contains headings highlighting the issues and possible cures.

Common sense tools appear in every chapter. What is important is that Shapiro shows how to apply them perceptively, with useful and sometimes jaw-dropping examples.

She ends, very appropriately for a book with this title, with Ten Commandments for Freeing the Corporate Mind - which deserve careful attention.

The cycle of organisation learning and 'mental models' are at the core of this book. Critical to success in avoiding or overcoming the 'sins' are the quality of conversation within the organisation, how well it uses the cycle of learning at an individual, small group and whole organisation level and how well it uses difference to enrich joint perceptions. Three other excellent books that take up these issues in greater depth are: Ellinor and Gerard: 'Dialogue' Leonard-Barton: 'The Well-Springs of Knowledge' Dixon: 'The Organizational Learning Cycle'

Solid insight & advice. Highly Recommended.......1999-04-17

Hightly Recommended! Like her previous book, Fad Surfing in the Boardroom, Eileen Shapiro cuts through the detrious of trends, fads and the latest management quick fix, to focus in on the essence of practical,common-sense management. Granted the cutesy "seven deadly" aspect of the title and dustcover, Shairo immediately cuts to the chase to address serious blindspots regarding strategic planning, communication, personnel management, etc. Replacing almost any other management book on your bookshelf with this one will increase their overall contribution to your management insight and performance.

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