Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Forty Years Of United States Human Spaceflight Symposium, 8 May 2001

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This popular reference and text provides essential guidance for school-based professionals meeting the challenges of ADHD at any grade level. Comprehensive and practical, the book includes several reproducible assessment tools and handouts. A team-based approach to intervention is emphasized in chapters offering research-based guidelines for:

* Identifying and assessing children with ADHD and those at risk
* Understanding learning difficulties associated with the disorder
* Developing an overall intervention and support plan for each student
* Implementing behavioral, academic, and social support strategies in the classroom
* Monitoring medication use and collaborating effectively with physicians
* Conducting adjunctive interventions, such as parent training

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Not anything new........2007-04-06

If you are a first time teacher, maybe this book would be helpful, but I have taught 15+ years, and I really didn't learn anything new. I was hoping it would give strategies to help with ADHD students in the classroom, but not so much. It did give lots of research, which I wasn't really looking for.

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David A. Garvin rocked the foundations of U.S. manufacturing when his devastating indictment of American product quality first appeared in the Harvard Business Review in 1983 and subsequently in newspapers around the world. Garvin had analyzed a representative global industry -- room air conditioners, a product with basic, unchanging technological requirements -- and irrefutably documented American failure rates which were 500 to 1,000 times greater than those of Japanese competitors. Now, building on that shocking study, Garvin's new work combines theory and practice to show how a more sophisticated understanding of quality can lead U.S. companies to a strategic approach to quality management, which is necessary to compete in today's world marketplace.

This seminal work is essential reading for managers, particularly since widely held assumptions and a growing mythology about quality have not produced the expected revolution in U.S. quality performance -- with few products able to match the quality and reliability levels of their overseas competitors. Garvin begins with a superb review of quality history in this country and an incisive analysis of what Japan has done with the same concepts and ideas -- and done demonstratively better -- revealing the hard facts that prove quality is the best competitive weapon to dramatically increase profits and cut losses.

Here is the actual evidence relating quality to such variables as price, market share, advertising, cost, productivity, and profitability as hammered out by Garvin in a point-by-point comparison of quality management in U.S. and Japanese plants. His focused study of seven Japanese companies and eleven U.S. factories makes extraordinarily clear what the Japanese have done to better even the best U.S. companies. He looks to the underlying sources of superior quality and identifies both the practices long associated with excellence, such as reliability engineering and precise information systems, and those that have rarely appeared in the literature, such as limited bumping, order of assembly operations, and narrow product lines. Finally, he demonstrates with unmistakable bottom-line figures the all-important need for top managers to become involved in quality activities.

Garvin's credo throughout is, "If quality is to be managed, it must first be understood." In this landmark work, he provides that comprehensive and lucid understanding of quality in a way that can readily be transferred to a wide variety of industry environments. The result is a damning, yet enlightening analysis that specifically illustrates how America must improve product quality to win back lost markets and gain long-term competitive advantage.

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Comprehensive, Brilliant, Practical, Useful.......1999-02-14

I was surprised to find that no one had written a review for this book. I came across it while writing my thesis for MBA on the subject of quality. This book is an extension of his McKinsey award winner article in HBR. Garvin expounds that there are 8 dimensions of quality, such as reliability, aesthetics, durability, etc. He begins by explaining different definitions and perceptions of quality; for example, engineering has a different definition than marketing, which in turn has a different interpretation than manufacturing. Through case study comparison of Japanese and American companies he demonstrates how quality management impacts the end product and profitability. Although, it is less engineering/statistical than the works of Juran and other quality gurus, Managing Quality is probably the most comprehensive book on quality; ideal for a manager/executive. Garvin's research is exhaustive; his writing style lucid.

In the Age of the Real-Time Enterprise: Managing for Winning Business Performance With Enterprise Logistics Management

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In the Age of the Real-Time Enterprise: Managing for Winning Business Performance With Enterprise Logistics Management
Thomas G. Gunn
Manufacturer: Oliver Wight Ltd Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Company Profiles | Biography & History | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

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Quality Control | Management & Leadership | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

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Enterprise Logistics Management (ELM) is a breakthrough approach that can give any company a real-time, integrated system for ensuring the most effective and efficient use of all operating resources. Already used by companies such as Xerox, Digital, UPS and Sony, ELM integrates the entire spectrum of manufacturing from a customer's order to final delivery. Gunn shows companies how to realize the full benefits of ELM which include significant reductions in inventory, shortened manufacturing cycles, and a more agile enterprise.

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woefully out of date.......2002-09-13

Note this book was written nearly 10 years ago now and it's discussion of business process and technology is woefully out of date.

Most of the companies praised here for their "leading edge" processes have fallen off their pedestals for horrendous breakdowns in supply chain management -- see Xerox's SEC punished manipulations and Compaq's [bum] kicking by Dell.

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Can managers learn from fads? That is the question Robert Cole addresses in this insightful book about the various factors supporting and inhibiting organizational learning. A longtime student of the Japanese and American quality movements, Cole focuses on the response of American industry to the challenge posed in the early 1980s by high quality goods from Japan. While most American managers view this challenge as slowly but successfully met, many academics see the quality movement that emerged from it as just another fad. In seeking to reconcile these two views, Cole explores the reasons behind American industry's slow response to Japanese quality, arguing that a variety of institutional factors inhibited management action in the early 1980s. He then describes the reshaping of institutions that allowed American companies to close the quality gap and to achieve sustained quality improvements in the 1990s. Hewlett-Packard serves as an example of a company that made this institutional transition more effectively than most. Cole describes Hewlett-Packard's successful strategies while also pointing out the serious problems that it and other companies face as they attempt to adapt, improve, and go beyond Japanese practices. He also uses Hewlett-Packard, an exemplar of the highly decentralized company, to explore effective strategies for the creation, dissemination, and implementation of knowledge. Unprecedented as a scholarly treatment of the quality movement,Managing Quality Fads provides several important lessons for those interested in management decision making under conditions of uncertainty and organizational transformation in a rapidly changing business environment.

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A complete work
A complete work

A History of Managing for Quality

Manufacturer: Irwin Professional Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Total Quality Control, Revised (Fortieth Anniversary Edition)

ASIN: 0873893417

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Quality guru Dr. Joseph M. Juran has compiled an international history of managing for quality--a landmark volume of enormous importance and unquestioned authority. Each chapter describes the management of quality during a specific span of time and in a specific area of the world through the ages. A richly diverse group of authors, each one a renowned authority on the international history of quality, was chosen to produce this expansive work that focuses on the broad perspectives of quality, rather than on specific methods or industries. Dr. Juran, drawing on a lifetime of experience and research, offers his thoughts on the history of managing for quality in the U.S., and gives a remarkable summary tracing worldwide trends and the likely directions for quality into the next century.

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A complete work.......2000-04-22

This book is a must read for those who wish to learn about quality and talks about the entire history of the quality movement and the japanese revolution, and what would be the future of the science of quality management. I found this book a easy read than most others that I've read on quality management. Another positive aspect of this book is that the author is very precise to the point and at the same time covers almost every aspect of this science.

A complete work.......2000-04-22

This book is a must read for those who wish to learn about quality and talks about the entire history of the quality movement and the japanese revolution, and what would be the future of the science of quality management. I found this book a easy to read than other on quality management. one additional positive aspect of this book is that the author is very precise to the point and at teh same time covers almost every aspect of this science.

Applying Quality Management Concepts To Managing Business Schools.: An article from: SAM Advanced Management Journal

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Applying Quality Management Concepts To Managing Business Schools.: An article from: SAM Advanced Management Journal
Bart Ward , and William D. Chandler
Manufacturer: Society for the Advancement of Management
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from SAM Advanced Management Journal, published by Society for the Advancement of Management on September 22, 1999. The length of the article is 2037 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Applying Quality Management Concepts To Managing Business Schools.
Author: Bart Ward
Publication: SAM Advanced Management Journal (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1999
Publisher: Society for the Advancement of Management
Volume: 64 Issue: 4 Page: 21

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Managing Production: Engineering Change and Stability

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Managing Production: Engineering Change and Stability
Graham M. Winch
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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The management of production is faced with ever greater challenges as global competion mounts. The problems revolve around the paradox of flexibility and productivity in the organization of production: how to compete on price while retaining the capability to respond quickly to market changes; how to develop new products faster without jeopardizing product integrity; how to increase quality while reducing costs. The recent research on lean production has explored some of these questions in the context of the motor industry. This book takes a broader audit of these issues across the full range of the metalworking sector in the United Kingdom. Focusing on the engineering/manufacturing interface, the research presented here explores how 15 leading British firms are facing up to the challenges of the 90s.

Managing the Learning of History (Quality in Secondary Schools & Colleges Series)

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Managing the Learning of History (Quality in Secondary Schools & Colleges Series)
Brown
Manufacturer: David Fulton Publish
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1853463450

The English lawyer: Describing a method for the managing of the lawes of this land, and expressing the best qualities requisite in the student, practizer, ... of English legal history in the modern era)

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The English lawyer: Describing a method for the managing of the lawes of this land, and expressing the best qualities requisite in the student, practizer, ... of English legal history in the modern era)
John Doddridge
Manufacturer: Professional Books, Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007ASS9I

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A History of Banking in Antebellum America: Financial Markets and Economic Development in an Era of Nation-Building (Studies in Macroeconomic History)
Howard Bodenhorn
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Economic History | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
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Banks & Banking | Industries & Professions | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
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A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II

ASIN: 0521669995

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This history focuses on the credit generating function of American banks. It demonstrates that banks aggressively promoted economic development rather than passively following its course. Using previously unexploited data, Professor Bodenhorn shows that banks helped to advance the development of industrialization. Additionally, he shows that banks formed long-distance relationships that promoted geographic capital mobility, thereby assuring that short-term capital was directed in socially desirable directions. He then traces those institutional and legal developments that allowed for this capital mobility.

A history of Banking in Antebellum America: Financial Markets and Economic Development in an Era of Nation-Building.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History

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A history of Banking in Antebellum America: Financial Markets and Economic Development in an Era of Nation-Building.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History
Larry Schweikart
Manufacturer: Southern Historical Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008FSAQ8
Release Date: 2005-07-30

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Southern Historical Association on November 1, 2002. The length of the article is 532 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: A history of Banking in Antebellum America: Financial Markets and Economic Development in an Era of Nation-Building.(Book Review)
Author: Larry Schweikart
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 2002
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
Volume: 68 Issue: 4 Page: 936(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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A History of Banking in Antebellum America : Financial Markets and Economic Development in an Era of Nation-Building (Studies in Macroeconomic History)

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A History of Banking in Antebellum America : Financial Markets and Economic Development in an Era of Nation-Building (Studies in Macroeconomic History)
Howard Bodenhorn
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000V2KP34

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The story of the American fur trade has been told many times from different viewpoints, but David Lavender was the first to place it within the overall contest for empire between Britain and the United States. Rather than offering a simple hagiography of men like Jedediah Smith, Kit Carson, Jim Bridger and other legendary trappers, Lavender relates the story of men such as John Jacob Astor and Ramsay Crooks who competed with Britain’s Hudson’s Bay Company for the fur resources of the Great Lakes region and the upper Missouri River country.

Within this framework of contest and competition, Lavender shows how the American Fur Company learned to exploit the needs and wants of Indian tribes to gain a superior economic position over the British. The brutal and bloody rivalry helped Ramsay Crooks develop the techniques for transporting furs, supplying trappers, and selling pelts that made fur trapping such an integral economic activity in early U.S. history.

Customer Reviews:

challenging .......2005-05-28

I would argue with the previous reviewer and call this book "challenging" rather than monotonous; of course it depends on the level of your interest in the subject...for me, it approaches the passionate...the author uses what might be called the "immersion" method of historical writing which can indeed be exhausting; this is not a book to be read in huge swatches; rather,a few pages at a time must be digested thoroughly...it requires a commitment of time and concentration, and should be read steadily from start to finish...you wouldn't want to put it down for weeks and then try to pick it up again. This book rewards effort; the reader will leave it with a vast knowledge of this arcane subject and most likely, a feeling of gratitude for a huge lesson in North American geography. It's amazing to find out how little you know about the latter subject until you start reading a book like this....also recommended, the author's ONE MAN'S WEST, a lively and fascinating chronicle of early mining and ranching adventures.

Long-winded, exhausting and monotonous.......2002-02-05

The amount of research which went into this book must have been phenomenal but the writing style is so complex and confusing, it can be difficult to follow. This is the political and economical side of the fur trade business during the early 1800's from the point of view of John Jacob Astor and Ramsay Crooks of the American Fur Company. There is much to be learned from the book, especially relationships between the United States, England, France and Spain; establishing international boundaries; the never-ending saga of allowing (or not allowing) whiskey into the Indian country; the tense competition between the fur companies, etc. Better have a dictionary handy too as some of the wording will need defining to the average reader.

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Everything You Need to Know About Infomercial Marketing

The Complete Guide to Infomercial Marketing
Timothy R. Hawthorne
Manufacturer: NTC Business Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
Advertising | Marketing & Sales | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0844234451

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Everything You Need to Know About Infomercial Marketing.......2001-07-21

After watching yet another infomercial I began to wonder how the business started. Thinking back to when I was a child and watching TV, even then I liked the commercials and can still remember many of the commercials that I watched as a child. There must be more people like me if a commercial can now be an infomercial and last almost 30 minutes. It wasn't hard to find out who was behind infomercial business. Being referred to as the Father of the Modern Infomercial showed the respect that Mr. Hawthorne has from his industry. After reading The Complete Guide to Infomercial Marketing, it made me realize that many of Mr. Hawthorne's experiences in the Direct Response Television market could be used in many, many types of marketing - not just infomercials. Using the checklists in the book enables the advertiser to keep track of how the show is working. Mr. Hawthorne gives hundreds of tips and pointers throughout the book on how to develop strategies, how to be cost effective, how to plan and budget for your product and even how to tie in aftermarketing. I found the Glossary particularly helpful, not knowing 'the language'; it was a huge asset being able to find out what a term means with a layman's definition. The other resources from Mr. Hawthorne's years of experience are invaluable. I feel Mr. Hawthorne is very frank and forthright informing the reader about the infomercial business. The ups and downs, the good and the bad are all touched upon by Hawthorne. . The Complete Guide to Infomercial Marketing can be used as a guidebook for the novice and a reference book for the accomplished.

Complete Guide to Infomercial Marketing, The

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Complete Guide to Infomercial Marketing, The
Timothy R. Hawthorne
Manufacturer: NTC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KY3LTS

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Accident Investigation In The Private Sector VI

Accident Investigation In The Private Sector VI

Very good

Accident Investigation in the Private Sector (Accident Investigation Series)

Manufacturer: Thomas Investigative Pubns Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
Decision-Making & Problem Solving | Management & Leadership | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1891247107

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Accident Investigation In The Private Sector VI.......2001-09-27

Very good reference. Easy to understand. Guides you through most situations. Recommend VII as a companion. Looking forward to VIII.

Accident Investigation In The Private Sector VI.......2001-09-27

Very good reference. Easy to understand. Guides you through most situations. Recommend VII as a companion. Looking forward to VIII.

Very good.......1997-11-17

This author really knows has stuff and takes a rather complicated technical subject and makes it easy to learn the various apsects on conducting an accident investigation.

Accident Investigation in the Private Sector: Introduction to Reconstruction

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Accident Investigation in the Private Sector: Introduction to Reconstruction
Jack Murray , and Jay Murray
Manufacturer: Thomas Investigative Publications, Incorporat
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Accident investigation in the private sector: For private investigators, accident reconstructionists, insurance adjustors and other private sector investigators

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Accident investigation in the private sector: For private investigators, accident reconstructionists, insurance adjustors and other private sector investigators
Jack Murray
Manufacturer: Thomas Investigative Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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This reader for courses in Financial Risk Management brings together a richand balanced set of articles from respected academics and practitioners. All articles were written exclusively for this volume; none are available in other sources. Articles highlight the diversity of approaches to financial risk management.

Students at Risk: Solutions to Classroom Challenges

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Students at Risk: Solutions to Classroom Challenges
Cheryll Duquette
Manufacturer: Pembroke Publishers
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Binding: Paperback

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The year 2000 challenge: Legal problems and solutions (Briefly-- : perspectives on legislation, regulation, and litigation)

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The year 2000 challenge: Legal problems and solutions (Briefly-- : perspectives on legislation, regulation, and litigation)
Robert J Kenney
Manufacturer: National Legal Center for the Public Interest
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Risk Management: Challenges and Solutions

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Risk Management: Challenges and Solutions
George Parker William H. Beaver
Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill College
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OFSJ0Y

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