Internet in an Hour for Managers (Internet-In-An-Hour)

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Locate over 100 top business Web sites that can help you get up-to-the-minute business news, find a job, track shipments, find source of capital, market your products on the Web, find new customers, consult government agencies, check out the competition maximize your time. And more.

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This provocative book focuses on the needs of gifted students. Schwartz presents compelling evidence that the gifts of time and money in providing educational opportunities to gifted individuals are neither elitist or undemocratic as critics charge. Small initial commitment will yield exceptional future leaders. Everyone will benefit from the rich return on such an investment. She describes the types of giftedness and gives nine categories of options available for enhancing the educational experiences of gifted students and how these options can be modified to meet individual needs. Some of these options cost virtually nothing while others fly in the face of current practices.

This book will be indispensable for educational policy makers, teachers and students.

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Tax Advice They Don't Want You to Have
Are your taxes too high? Remarkably, many Americans actually pay far more to the IRS than they have to, even if they are using a professional tax preparer.

This book can help. Straightforward. Easy to understand. Containing tips and suggestions that can save you money and help you avoid problems in the future! You can deduct the cost of the book too!

C. Richard Dobbins, SR., is a practicing Certified Public Accountant in a local CPA firm and has had many face-to face dealings with the IRS. In this book, Dobbins has provided the reader with practical approaches to tax planning and tax savings. He has produced a non-technical book that is easy to read and understand, and gives practical hints that should be helpful when dealing with the IRS and other taxing agents. The information presented should give you the help, courage and confidence you need when you have any type of encounters with the IRS.

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The title of this book may give you the wrong impression........1997-06-23

I know Richard Dobbins and I believe that he may have chosen the title How to Screw the IRS in order to catch the reader's eye. The book, however, is not written in a frivolous or combative tone. It is a plain-English guide for the average person who may be facing a tax audit or who is looking for legal and practical ways to minimize their state and federal income tax obligations. Most people have their income taxes prepared by an accounting professional or preparation service but do not often have the opportunity to have an open discussion with a person possessing the depth of experience of Mr. Dobbins. The conversational style of this book is like having such a discussion.

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The Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook: A Quick Reference Guide to 100 Tools for Improving Quality and Speed
Michael L. George , John Maxey , David T. Rowlands , Michael George , David Rowlands , and Mark Price
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ASIN: 0071441190

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Bestselling Lean Six Sigma author Michael George provides the first pocket guide for deployers of Lean Six Sigma

The Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook blends Lean and Six Sigma tools and concepts, providing expert advice on how to determine which tool within a "family" is best for different purposes. Packed with detailed examples and step-bystep instructions, it's the ideal handy reference guide to help Green and Black Belts make the transition from the classroom to the field.

Features brief summaries and examples of the 70 most important tools in Lean Six Sigma, such as "Pull," "Heijunka," and "Control Charts"
Groups tools by purpose and usage
Offers a quick, easy reference on using the DMAIC improvement cycle
Provides comprehensive coverage in a compact, portable format

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Very handy book.......2007-10-10

This is a very handy reference. I like to use it for quick references during projects etc. I also very much recommend the book Lean Six Sigma That Works: A Powerful Action Plan for Dramatically Improving Quality, Increasing Speed, And Reducing Waste.

Used Books are Bargins!.......2007-09-15

This book came exactly as described, very little wear, just like new for a few dollars in price, terrific savings, used books are the only way to go. Great service, fast shipping, thanks you!

A Good Compendium at a Bargain Price.......2007-08-24

We hand this out to each participant in my company's Six Sigma Green Belt Training.

Good Book!.......2007-07-08

I own all of the Micheal George Lean Six Sigma books. THey are a part of the Villanova Univeristy curricullum. If you are a Kaizen facilitator or involved in projects this book is helpful with good pictures and guidance. Worth the money in my eyes..

Excellent Reference.......2007-07-04

Have close to me and use often for different processes. In a short period of time is well dog eared.

Rath & Strong's GE Workout for Six Sigma Pocket Guide

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Enhance your Six Sigma program

Rath & Strong's GE Workout for Six Sigma Pocket Guide
Rath & Strong , Rath , and Strong
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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 for Six Sigma Pocket Guide shows you how, with an action-ready game plan that you can apply to your initiative - right now.

Learn how to:

Set the stage for Six Sigma's success
Find out if you're in trouble - and get back on track
Make a good Six Sigma initiative even better
See actual results--in less than three months

"If you want to bring the power of WorkOut to Six Sigma, this pocket guide is an invaluable tool."--Ron Ashkenas, co-author of The GE Work-Out

Six Sigma: A data-driven approach to meeting customer requirements, solving process problems, and achieving bottom-line results.

WorkOut: The revolutionary problem-solving program that brings management and workers together to bust bureaucracy.

Companies worldwide use Six Sigma to measure and improve performance. Others use WorkOut to get quick bottom-line results and empower their workforce. But few enjoy the enormous success General Electric achieved by combining these approaches. Rath & Strong shows you how to get that synergy, with a handy pocket guide full of charts, checklists, assessment tools, and cases that help you:

Prepare for, reenergize, or enhance a Six Sigma initiative
Use a fast, simple alternative to Six Sigma
Make your culture more participative, data-driven, and customer-focused
Engage your front-line workers in Six Sigma

Customer Reviews:

Enhance your Six Sigma program.......2005-05-16

Our Six Sigma teams were faltering and needed to be reenergized. Rath & Strong's GE WorkOut for Six Sigma Pocket Guide helped us kick-start our Six Sigma initiative! Through this guide we learn how to deal with resistance within the team, understand underlying causes and identify the best topics for WorkOut. Rath & Strong's Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide is a nice compliment to their GE WorkOut guide.

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Calidad y sus implicaciones

ISO 9000 Pocket Guide
David Hoyle
Manufacturer: Butterworth-Heinemann
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The ISO 9000 Pocket Guide is packed with information that quality practitioners will find indispensable. It consolidates the essential messages that are contained in three books by the same author covering the development, implementation and assessment of quality systems. It provides the what, the why and the hows of ISO 9000 to assist quality system developers meeting ISO 9000 requirements and to help auditors perform effective audits.

Presented in bullet point format, the author guides the reader through each of the 57 clauses in ISO 9001, after laying down the fundamental concepts of quality management and the development of quality systems. Full of task lists, flowcharts, definitions, hints, tips and questions for both developers and auditors, this pocket book is for quality practitioners who spend time away from their offices or as a memory jogger for preparing proposals, policies, procedures, letters or planning audits or meetings with staff, clients, and executives.

David Hoyle C Eng. MRAeS, FIQA is an International quality management consultant, author and a Director of the Institute of Quality Assurance.

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Calidad y sus implicaciones.......2000-05-18

Un buen analisis de los elementos necearios para la calidad y losistemas ISO

Pocket Guide to TQM (Mini Pictorial Guides)

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Oakland and Morris simplify a Complex Topic

Pocket Guide to TQM (Mini Pictorial Guides)
John S Oakland , and Peter Morris
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Another new book in the popular and original series of pictorial guides - John Oakland cuts through the complex concepts and confusing jargon associated with implementing Total Quality, and Peter Morris presents the information in his inimitable pictorial style. This book will show students and managers what they need to understand about TQM in the simplest, clearest and most memorable form.

Professor John Oakland is undoubtedly the British guru of quality management. Following a successful industrial career in research and production management, he has developed a pragmatic approach to introducing TQM which he and his colleagues have used successfully in literally thousands of organizations. He is founder and Executive Chairman of OAKLAND Consulting Plc. and Head of the European Centre for TQM at the University of Bradford Management Centre. Also published by Butterworth-Heinemann are John Oakland's bestselling Total Quality Management (now in its second edition) and Cases in Total Quality Management. Peter Morris is the creative force behind the illustrations in all Butterworth-Heinemann's pictorial guides. Originally trained as an art teacher, he spent several years as an industrial designer in Canada before returning to England to design educational and training materials for the University of Sussex. His experience working on industrial contracts convinced him, quite rightly, that cartoons are frequently the best way to illustrate the abstractions of business life.

Part of the popular and original series of pictorial guides
Enables students and managers to grasp the basic concepts of TQM
TQM presented in its simplest, clearest and most memorable form

Customer Reviews:

Oakland and Morris simplify a Complex Topic.......2001-07-05

I'm working on writing a guidance document on developing quality systems for use by the Environmental Protection Agency. In the process, I've reviewed a lot of books on quality (e.g., Deming, Juran, Crosby, Goetsch and Davis, Beckford, Dobyns and Crawford-Mason, and Oakland to name some). Discussions of quality can get pretty abstract quickly. Sometimes it feels like I'm in a quality fairyland that's mostly separate from everyday life. Oakland and Morris have presented this very complex topic in terms that most people can understand. The abundant graphics explain as much about quality as does the clear text. This book serves as a good starting point for understanding how quality concepts and tools can be applied in everyday workplaces. If necessary, one could then read other books for more detailed information about quality systems. My only quibble is that this book needs a list of suggested reading for more detailed information about quality concepts and tools. Oakland's other books are pretty useful themselves and could have been mentioned.

The Pocket Guide to the Baldrige Award Criteria

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The Pocket Guide to the Baldrige Award Criteria
Mark Graham Brown
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Whether your organization is applying for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award or not, this handy pocket guide will serve as a quick reference for employees at all levels.

The 64-page booklet is a guide to interpreting the 1998 criteria in the seven Baldrige categories to help your organization improve quality.

It begins with answers to commonly asked questions about the Baldrige Award criteria. Then it breaks down the 24 items under the seven category headings of the Baldrige criteria with a concise explanation, and lists quick tips of what excellent companies do in each of these areas.

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Do you believe in action-oriented planning, the speedy execution of ideas and realistic goal-setting in business management? So do the authors of this book-and that's why they've developed this fun, innovative evaluation tool that any business can use to assess its own operations and identify weak spots and trouble areas. Management Golf has been arranged to resemble a round of golf: 18 of the most important business factors were selected to match the 18 holes in a golf game. Topics such as technology, strategy, resources, finance and customer service each get a score, and a graphic layout of each hole is shown at the end of each chapter. When you're done playing the game, it's time to figure out your handicap-the factors you need to work on to get your company playing "above par."Once you know your score and your handicap, you can address the real challenge of this book-using what you've discovered about the inner workings of your company to boost innovation and creativity among your management team and make the business run better than it ever has before. As a game, Management Golf is great fun. As a self-assessment tool for your business, it's invaluable! ABOUT THE AUTHORSMichael J. Kami is considered one of the leading business advisors in the world. He was the strategic planner for IBM during its spectacular growth period in the 1950s and for Xerox during its boom in the 1960s. He retired young, moved to Florida and became a consultant, writer, publisher and entrepreneur. In the 1980s, he sat on the Board of Directors of Harley Davidson and was part of the team which transformed that company into one of the world's leading motorcycle manufacturers. He currently publishes the quarterly newsletter Kami Strategic Assumptions, which provides management advice to top executives in the United States and abroad.William Martz is a long-time business consultant. Over the years, he has helped executives throughout the United States adapt to changing conditions, deal more effectively with competition and plan innovative new strategies for success. His ability to combine practicality with a vision for the future has earned him a reputation as a top management consultant for small and medium-size companies.

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Through the ages gold clauses have served as protection from inflation. Americans, however, were forbidden by law to own gold from 1934 to 1974. As gold ownership is once again legal, it is now possible to use the gold clause to protect ourselves from the destruction of paper money.

This book explains exactly what gold clauses are, giving their background and how they have been used in the past. It documents how they were abrogated in 1934 and presents the legal cases stirred up over them. Most importantly THE GOLD CLAUSE thoroughly documents the current revival of their use, explains, why they are again valid, and details how to structure them avoiding the critical pitfalls such as state usury laws.

The only complete presentation of all the legal foundations for gold clauses , this book is an invaluable sourcebook for all who would use them, from laymen to legal professionals.

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ESSENTIALS OF TRADEMARKS AND UNFAIR COMPETITION

Full of valuable tips, techniques, illustrative real-world examples, exhibits, and best practices, this handy and concise paperback will help you stay up to date on the newest thinking, strategies, developments, and technologies in trademarks and unfair competition.

"This is an extremely well-conceived, clearly written, and authoritative presentation of several related intellectual property disciplines. It will be valuable both to business executives and nonspecialized lawyers. Serious readers should get up to speed rapidly because Ms. Shilling focuses on the real issues in an effective, user-friendly manner."
—Robert Goldscheider, Chairman, The International Licensing Network

"Dana Shilling has written a work that should be the new, first stop for junior associates or experienced general practitioners alike delving into their first serious engagement with the law of trademark and unfair competition. In a terse but accessible style she has touched on most of the major issues in these developing areas and has done so with a minimum of jargon, 'inside baseball,' and bias in an area rife with vested litigation and economic interests. No other book presently available fits quite this niche."
—Ronald D. Coleman, Partner, Intellectual Property Department, Gibney, Anthony & Flaherty LLP

The Wiley Essentials Series-because the business world is always changing...and so should you.

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R. Schultz.......2002-04-10

I highly recommend this book. This book provided me with insights on various Intellectual property disciplines. It helped guide me on the best new strategies, developments, and technologies in trademarks and unfair competition

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The only step-by-step guide to an exciting new chemical management and waste minimization methodology

Over the past decade, a revolutionary new approach to chemical supply has emerged that dramatically reduces chemical waste and chemical costs while improving company performance. Known as Shared Savings Chemical Management, it has already yielded astonishing results for several major North American manufacturing firms and numerous other companies. The first complete guide to this innovative chemical management methodology, Chemical Management acquaints you with Shared Savings principles and shows you how to put them to work in your company.

Thomas Bierma and Francis Waterstraat Jr. explore the environmental, health and safety, purchasing, inventory, tracking, waste disposal, and other major problems inherent to traditional chemical supply programs, and clearly explain how and why a Shared Savings Chemical Management program helps minimize or completely eliminate those problems. With the help of fascinating case studies, they demonstrate how Shared Savings techniques are currently being applied in five extremely successful plants belonging to GM, Ford, Chrysler, and Navistar International. What's more, they provide you with a complete, step-by-step blueprint for designing and implementing a Shared Savings program tailored to your company.

Chemical Management is an indispensable resource for manufacturing managers, purchasing managers, environmental managers, health and safety managers, and others charged with developing more effective chemical waste minimization strategies for their companies.

Customer Reviews:

A must for Users and Providers.......2000-08-17

Bierma and Waterstraat have very accurately described a proven outsourcing process to reduce both chemical usage and chemical costs. The book is excellent for newcomers looking to use chemical management as a tool to reduce usage and costs but has enough information for those that are using chemical management to improve their programs. At any level the book offers "practical and proven" examples to illustrate implementation and documented the results. The authors have cleverly descibed the total life cycle costs associated with chemical use and why it make both economical and environmental sense to implement chemical management. If you are a user of chemicals or a supplier of chemicals this book challenges you to look outside of traditional buy/sell relationships and move towards outsourced chemical management. This book sets the stage for a rapidly growing industry that is no longer a trend but a very effective management discipline. It's a must for users and providers of chemicals.

Chemical Management.......2000-04-23

La forma mas efectiva de comtribucion a la actualizacion gerencial de la Ingenieria Quimica

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Program Management for Corporate Information Technology Leaders
John W., Ph.D. Rittinghouse
Manufacturer: Infinity Publishing (PA)
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This book is intended for IT leaders tasked to manage multiple projects. It describes a set of industry-proven processes used to build an effective Program Management Office (PMO) function within a corporate IT setting. Every business that has people performing project management activities has a clear need for these processes. An organization may already have a PMO chartered with responsibility for each project managed in an enterprise. In those rare cases, this book will provide strong validation of their efforts or it will present new techniques and useful approaches that can further improve on their implementation of a PMO.

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