Weiss Ratings' Guide to Banks and Thrifts: A Quarterly Compilation of Financial Institution Ratings and Analysis: Fall 2000 (Weiss Ratings' Guide to Banks and Thrifts)

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"We must improve schools from within, utilizing our expertise as teaching professionals and placing ourselves at the center of the education reform movement. As Adrienne Mack-Kirschner informs us all in this important book, ‘These stories represent what is happening in tens of thousands of classrooms. They hold within them the power of what could be if all teachers and schools provided opportunities for all children to experience powerful teaching and learning.’"
--From the Foreword by Cathy R. Owens, NBCT
Director of Teacher Leadership Initiatives

The National Board for Professional Teaching StandardsInspiring stories from everyday classrooms to move your head, heart, and soul . . .

In an increasingly rigid educational world dominated by standards, lock-step scope and sequence, and strict, scripted lessons, we can sometimes lose sight of why we chose to become teachers in the first place. This important book puts the heart and soul back in education, reminding us that we are not only teachers, but also parents, mentors, friends, and leaders. Powerful Classroom Stories from Accomplished Teachers contains 70 wonderful, inspiring stories told by accomplished classroom teachers, all of whom have achieved or are candidates for National Board Certification. These stories reach behind and around the statistics to highlight the art, craft, joys, and challenges of teaching in today’s classrooms, breathing fresh life into the countless students we face every day.

Creative, caring teachers invite you into their classrooms as they relate compelling and moving narratives, allowing us to witness, first-hand, essential teaching and learning moments in the lives of individual children. The stories offer examples of instructional activities that are real, student-centered, meaningful, and most of all—lasting! Stories are grouped in harmony with the Five Core Propositions of accomplished teaching, as defined by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards:

Teachers are committed to students and their learning
Teachers know the subjects they teach and how to teach those subjects to students
Teachers are responsible for managing and monitoring student learning
Teachers think systematically about their practice and learn from experience
Teachers are members of learning communities

All of us have been touched in some way by the teachers we’ve encountered in our lives. This incredibly moving tribute to the artistry and love of teaching opens classroom doors and lets us look inside to find out what really makes a difference in the lives of our nation’s students.

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The Fast Forward MBA in Negotiating and Deal Making brings you the information you need when you need it most-now!

This practical, easy-to-use guide gives you instant access to the cutting-edge ideas and hard-won wisdom of today's leading experts on negotiation and deal making. In short, lively segments using real-world examples, it delivers the facts you need to navigate complex negotiation issues. You'll find brief descriptions of key concepts, tips on real-world applications, compact case studies, advice from respected negotiators, and warnings on how to avoid pitfalls.

Here are all the tools you need to finesse the art of the deal. You'll learn about:
* The four driving forces that you must know in any strategic negotiation
* How to turn your personal qualities into negotiating power
* The best ways to prepare for-and master-all negotiation situations
* When to compete, when to collaborate, and when to compromise
* And much more

From the creators of the bestselling Portable MBA series comes The Fast Forward MBA . . .
* A quick way to brush up on new ideas
* An easy-to-use format that fits in any briefcase
* Real-world information that you can put to use now!

Customer Reviews:

You get what you negotiate.......2000-03-29

Like the ads on in-flight magazines says, you do not get what you deserve -- you get what you negotiate, whether in business or in life.

This book gives concepts and advice on negotiating. It has good examples and description of the "gotchas".

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Info Good, Cases Not

Total Quality Management: Text, Cases, and Readings, Third Edition
Joel E. Ross , and Susan Perry
Manufacturer: CRC
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 157444266X

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Acclaimed and used in over 200 colleges and universities around the country, Total Quality Management: Text, Cases and Readings has been completely revised and expanded to meet the growing demands and awareness for quality products and services in the competing domestic and global marketplaces. Since the publication of the first and second editions of this book, interest in and acceptance of TQM has continued to accelerate around the world. This edition has been thoroughly revised, updated and expanded. Some of the changes are: · A new chapter on the emerging Theory of Constraints · Expanded treatment of Process Management · Eleven new readings · Ten new cases · Chapter examples of TQM at 12 Baldrige winning organizations · End of chapter recommendations for further reading · Revised and updated textual material · The Varifilm case is retained as a comprehensive study that illustrates good and not so good practices. Each chapter contains an exercise which provides the reader with an opportunity to apply TQM principles to the practices illustrated in each case. Based on sound principles, this practical book is an excellent text for organizational development programs aimed at practitioners responsible for developing and implementing TQM programs in their own service or manufacturing organizations.

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Good Quality Textbook.......2006-05-26

The book explains the concept of Total Quality Management which involves the integration of all functions and processes in any organisation to ensure that it achieves continuous improvement of its products and services to meet customer needs.

Quality starts with understanding customer needs and ends when those needs are satisfied. Marketing processes establish the true requirements for the product or service. These must be communicated properly throughout the organisation in the form of specifications. Excellent communications between customers and suppliers is the key to a total quality performance - the organisation must establish feedback systems to gather customer information. Appropriate research techniques should be used to understand the "market" and keep close to customers and maintain the external perspective.

All effective quality programmes have at their centre a very clear focus on customers. Delivering customer satisfaction is the primary goal for an organisation and the approach is inherently simple - listen to customers and respond to what they say. An organisation should have a wide range of methods for listening to their customers, ranging from market research to asking customers detailed questions about how they feel about a specific transaction with the organisation. From this data an organisation can built quantitative models of the drivers of customer satisfaction which enable them to ensure that internal measures are aligned with what customers really want.

The cases reinforce the concepts discussed in the book which makes it valuable for those embarking on studies of TQM or those who need to learn how the concept can be applied in their organisation.

Info Good, Cases Not.......2000-05-13

The information contained in this book was strong. However, I was disappointed with the so-called cases. The cases include were only one or two page summaries. I was expecting full cases and details. I ended up wasting my time because the book was posted as having something that was not clearly defined.

Total Quality Management: Text, Cases, and Reading, Third Edition

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Total Quality Management: Text, Cases, and Reading, Third Edition
Joel E. Ross;Susan Perry
Manufacturer: CRC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MC7JLE

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Learn from the insider-outsider expert who knows how to build businesses that last!

More than three-quarters of all U.S. businesses are closely held, and worldwide the percentage is even higher. Yet closely held businesses are fragile-more than two-thirds fail to survive the founder's involvement.

Portraits of Success offers solutions to the most common problems faced by closely held firms as they strive to create value that can and will be sustained by future generations of management. For the first time ever, business expert and consultant James Olan Hutcheson, the grandson of Olan Mills Portrait Studios patriarch, Olan Mills, shares with readers how closely held firms can prosper well into the future. In practical and inspiring terms, he presents proven management tools in tandem with illustrative examples from his clients' companies and his own family's business. Readers will learn how to:

• Give the next generation of leaders room to grow.

• Incorporate outsiders into the inner management circle as the business matures.

• Keep clear chains of command as future leaders are being groomed and promoted.

• Create a culture rich with business traditions, rituals, and myths.

• Build shared beliefs among the business's founders and its future management.

In closely held businesses, personal relationships are of paramount importance. Hutcheson's practical, prescriptive information from his experience as a consultant, and his revealing, personal anecdotes from working at all levels of the family business provide readers with a uniquely satisfying look at how to build lasting value within their own firms.

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A story - not a simple business book.......2006-05-09

A great book to read especially if you are interested in building a great company.

I've done the leadership thing at Toastmasters. I've attended the 12-class Dale Carnegie Course. I've read a lot of books on leadership, and I've counseled clients at SCORE.org counseling sessions on leadership. What I've garnered from all of this on the subject of starting a business and doing it as a leader is described in this book.

If you are leading a company - are you interested in just creating short term profits, or are you looking to the long term? When you hire people are you promoting them because you have become their friend, or because they have earned it? Are you leading or just managing? Do you have passion, or are you just putting in your time? These and other topics are addressed in this book. Get it and read it. You'll be glad you did.

Neither Passionate Nor Informative.......2003-02-25

"Portraits of Success: 9 Keys to Sustaining Value in Any Business" by James Olan Hutcheson is just another "how to succeed at business" book. I wish its value was more than that, but it isn't. It is neither passionate nor any more informative than its competitors.

In the business books I have read recently, I found this one lacks the authority and substance I found in others. William Pollard's "Soul of the Firm" has the authority, as he took ServiceMaster to a new level. "Values of the Game" by Bill Bradley was worth the read because of Bradley's unique metaphorical look at life. "Leadership" by Rudolph Giuliani has power because of what Giuliani has gone through. "Portraits," however, has a flaccid tone to it. I felt as if it was researched information regurgitated into book form. I felt like I was reading the kind of book which gets sold after a corporate sales seminar.

The book, as seen in the subtitle, can be boiled down to nine major points. In each, Hutcheson retells stories of business success and failures, from security company founder Richard Wackenhut to Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.

Action items accompany each chapter, and herein lay the book's greatest value. Hutcheson provides a topic sentence to lead the mini-lesson, but weakly completes the thesis in the following paragraphs.

The redundancy of subject matter mixed with a bland presentation has me suggesting to you to look elsewhere. It was not edited tightly enough to build the necessary tension and excitement. Overall, "Portraits of Success: 9 Keys to Sustaining Value in Any Business" lacks the poignancy I have come to expect from professional advancement books.

Anthony Trendl
editor, HungarianBookstore.com

Excellent read for any business.......2002-11-20

I was skeptical at first that this was a book by someone born with a silver spoon just looking to sell a book. But after reading through the thoughts and stories included, it's evident that Hutcheson has been on the front line throughout his career and the information included can be a benefit to any business owner and manager, particularly one looking to grow and transition ownership while facing the rough roads that will come with it.

Sound advice for all businesses.......2002-11-16

As the world changes, a business must change or decline and die. Some do so even if their business climate has not changed at all. These businesses self-destruct due to internal incompetence or conflicts that blur their focus on what it is their business should do. James Olan Hutcheson is the grandson of the founder of Olan Mills, the world's largest photography company. After starting in the company as a telemarketer, he rose to a position of responsibility and then resigned to pursue a career as a business consultant. Therefore, while he draws heavily from the history of Olan Mills, he also uses examples from several other businesses.
His advice is sound, logical and yet not simple. Ideas such as having proteges (including relatives), work their way up through a company rather than having the reins of power simply handed to them without training is a sound yet often ignored management principle. Another bit of sound advice that is often ignored is the toleration of honest, well meaning and factually based dissent. An examination of business, political and religious history shows quite clearly that when dissent is crushed an organization loses its' health and eventually dies, sometimes rather abruptly. As greater details of the latest corporate fiasco's come to light, it is clear that those who dissented were hounded, and sometimes it continues even after they were proven correct. This is an absurd business practice, as denying the truth only makes it worse when the end finally comes.
The nine keys listed in this book will not make your business a success. Only the making of a valuable product and executing a sound business plan can do that. What it can do is increase the odds that you will do both by showing you how others have done it.

an invaluable book on building and transition.......2002-10-29

James Olan Hutcheson has written a book that should prove invaluable to owners of small businesses and other nonhierarchical organizations. Portraits of Success: 9 Keys to Sustaining Value in Any Business is a book that deserves--and will hopefully get--a large readership.

Drawing on what he has seen in his own family business' transition to second generation leadership, as well as what he has witnessed as a consultant on such transitions, Hutcheson gives the reader much to think about. As he makes each point in his "9 Keys" he illustrates it with a real-life example.

Many of the keys are basic but easy to overlook and (after having overlooked them) sometimes tricky to introduce in a static leadership environment. Yet Hutcheson is a faithful guide through the peaks and valleys.

Having suffered through encounters with ineffective organizations (my daughter's school) and reveled in being a part of an effective, on-purpose organization (my Church), I cannot stress enough how important it is for people in leadership positions to be intentional in what they do and have the ability to be life-long learners. Learning about leadership and listening to those who "have been there," like Mr. Hutcheson, is a big part of this. Nothing less is in the balance than the difference between a life of drudgery and one of joy and freedom.

My only critique of this book is one that springs from my Christianity. I feel that the missing tenth (and possibly most important key) is Spiritual giftedness. When people serve in an area they not only enjoy, but also are gifted by God to serve in, explosive results are to be had. Also, as part of the Kingdom, "Business Traditions, Myths, and Shared Beliefs" melt away in the face of the kind of common purpose given by the Great Commission and the whole history of salvation.

Bearing this in mind and also recognizing that Mr. Hutcheson's audience probably have not all partaken of the Kingdom as of yet, I have to say that this book does a darn good job as a whole. It is less of a compilation of other sources than are most other leadership books. I found it refreshing to be able to distinguish an actual authorial voice in a work such as this. Too many leadership books read like a cross between a presentation and an instruction manual.

Get this book. It is well worth the time spent reading.

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Spanning the years 1840-1875, Beyond the Boundaries focuses on the settlement of Upper Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, telling the story of reluctant pioneers who attempted to establish a decent measure of comfort, control, and security in what was in many ways a hostile environment. Moving beyond the technological history of the period found in his previous book Cradle to the Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines (OUP 1991), Lankton here focuses on the people of this region and how the copper mining affected their daily lives. A truly first-rate social history, Beyond the Boundaries will appeal to historians of the frontier and of Michigan and the Great Lakes region, as well as historians of technology, labor, and everyday life.

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Life on an Early Frontier.......2003-09-13

Larry Lankton has achieved a great deal in bringing us closer to the early history of Michigan's Copper Country, to help us experience this rugged region in a rugged time as though we had lived there and in those days ourselves. This book, his latest, concerns private life during the first decades of the great Copper Rush on the shores of Lake Superior, which began some five years before the California Gold Rush and which was one of the most productive mining eras in human history (did you realize that?). Like many similar books on old times, Lankton's chapters are topical. Some are more interesting than others, and my favorites are the chapter concerning the early frontiersmen, young and scraggly bucks, who first came to the wilds of the Keweenaw Peninsula; another about labor at the early Copper Mines; and finally the one on crime in the early mining communities out in a region that was once at the edge of civilization. Lankton writes in an easy, congenial manner and bounces from topic to topic within the chapters without any organizational principle other than what he thinks we readers might find interesting about life in the woods and at the copper mines. Though this is not a book to start with when studying the Copper Country and its deep history, it is nonetheless a first-rate addition to the literature of the Keweenaw. (By the way, I live summers in Copper Harbor and my great-grandparents were all Finnish immigrants to the Keweenaw.) Thanks for a job well done, Larry.

Beyond the Boundaries: Life and Landscape at the Lake Superior Copper Mines, 1840-1875

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Beyond the Boundaries: Life and Landscape at the Lake Superior Copper Mines, 1840-1875
Larry Lankton
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKLK3M

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Global Instability: Uncertainty and New Visions in Political Economy presents a series of papers that address the political consequences of globalization for states and their populations, while exploring the issue of alternatives to the model of globalization we are presently experiencing. The focus moves from the world of international agreements to the national and sub-national dilemmas that are posed by attempting to manage a set of global developments within a given territory. The initial chapter, by Daniel Drache, explores a still-born post-war international organization, the International Trade Organization, that offers a different vision of how a globally integrated economy might operate. A number of papers then explore the challenges posed by today's globalization, including currency instability in an environment of financial deregulation, the rights conferred on investors by the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the progressive liberalization of trade in services built into the General Agreement on Trade in Services. The difficulties faced by states are analyzed in a number of chapters that address industrial and social policy issues. A final group of papers explores some theoretical alternatives to a globalized world. Responses at the level of institutions as well as ideas are canvassed and the urgency of the problem is highlighted by Duncan Cameron's concluding article which argues that we are already living in which he terms a `quasi-democracy.' The various chapters attempt to ground their analysis of instability, uncertainty and change in the real problems that globalization creates for states and peoples, and for those who might attempt to devise alternatives. As a group, these papers offer a unique and timely synthesis of key themes in the political economy of globalization suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate students in political science, economics, and business.

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Excellent

A well structured approach to the subject.

Sports Marketing: A Strategic Perspective (3rd Edition)
Matthew Shank
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Excellent.......2001-10-29

It tackles the various topics in sports marketing with great clarity and all the chapters integrate seamlessly. It explains concepts with good, clear everday sport examples.

A well structured approach to the subject........1999-02-17

Shanks has produced a solid undergraduate text. It has many examples and is well supported by case and discussion material. Also, the book makes good use of the Internet as a support medium. I am not aware of whether or not an instructors package is available. If not, that is a failing.

Sports Marketing: A Strategic Perspective (4th Edition)

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Sports Marketing: A Strategic Perspective (4th Edition)
Matthew D Shank
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Sports Marketing: A Strategic Perspective
Matthew D. Shank
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall College Div
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Sports Marketing: A Strategic Perspective {FIRST EDITION}

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Sports Marketing: A Strategic Perspective {FIRST EDITION}
Matthew D. Shank
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall College Div
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OIWTUW

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This is a book about FLOWCHARTING.......2006-01-13

I was looking for books on storyboarding as in film and comics. I want work out the problems of my story artistically. This book is about corporate stuff. In that way, it seems to be very detailed.

These are the chapters:
1. Background and introduction.
2. The importance of teams.
3. Problem solving.
4. Quality improvement tools.
5. Identify the problem. Find the reason for improvement.
6. Understand the problem and the current situation.
7. Analyze the problem.
8. Generate potential action.
9. Evaluate and select actions.
10. Action.
11. Appraise or Evaluate.
12. Documentation
Appendix A. Storyboard Examples for Health Care and Education
B. Comparison of problem-solving structures.
C. Tool pages

This might be the PERFECT book for someone who is not writing a story, but trying to solve problems at the office.

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