Download or read book Drinking from the Fire Hose written by Christopher J Frank and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You're sitting in a windowless conference room. Twenty minutes into the meeting the presenter finally makes it to slide four of a thirty two- slide deck. At least you can read this one, unlike the others, which were crammed with numbers, graphs and charts. You look around, wondering if anyone else is following the presentation. Just about everyone these days suffers from information overload the 24/7 explosion from our computers, smartphones, media, colleagues, and customers. Information is essential to making intelligent decisions, but more often than not, it simply overwhelms us. It's like trying to drink from a fire hose. The question isn't how to stop all those e-mails, meetings, conference calls, and fat reports; that's impossible. The question is what to do with them. How do you find the truly essential nuggets of information and use them with confidence? The solution proposed by Christopher Frank and Paul Magnone sounds deceptively simple: Learn how to ask the right questions at the right time. Whatever field you're in, asking smarter questions will expose you to new information, point you to connections between seemingly unrelated facts, and open new avenues of discussion with your colleagues. The authors explain the seven questions that can help you bring a big- picture perspective to problems that often leave others buried in irrelevant details. And they show through real-life case studies- including Trader Joe's, Starbucks, Kodak, Microsoft, iRobot, and IBM-how their method can have a dramatic impact. It really is possible to convert the fire hose of information into useful insights. Consider a nonbusiness example: the 2010 Icelandic volcano eruption that sent a giant ash cloud toward Europe. Tens of thousands of flights were canceled and five million passengers stranded, leading to billions in economic losses. Europe's best scientists generated oceans of data and carefully modeled the cloud's dispersion pattern. But no one could answer the essential question: Was the concentration of volcanic ash in the air enough to damage a jet engine? Without that key answer, all the carefully gathered facts were useless to the decision makers. Once you adopt the seven questions, you'll start having more productive brainstorming sessions. You'll answer critical questions faster and find unexpected solutions to important problems. And you'll get better at communicating to your colleagues with more clarity and focus, turning down the fire hose that other people have to cope with.

Download or read book Wildland Fire Hose Guide written by Lois Patricia Sicking and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book What Virtue There Is in Fire written by Edwin T. Arnold and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1899 lynching of Sam Hose in Newnan, Georgia, was one of the earliest and most gruesome events in a tragic chapter of U.S. history. Hose was a black laborer accused of killing Alfred Cranford, a white farmer, and raping his wife. The national media closely followed the manhunt and Hose’s capture. An armed mob intercepted Hose’s Atlanta-bound train and took the prisoner back to Newnan. There, in front of a large gathering on a Sunday afternoon, Hose was mutilated and set on fire. His body was dismembered and pieces of it were kept by souvenir hunters. Born and raised twenty miles from Newnan, Edwin T. Arnold was troubled and fascinated by the fact that this horrific chain of events had been largely shut out of local public memory. In "What Virtue There Is in Fire," Arnold offers the first in-depth examination of the lynching of Sam Hose. Arnold analyzes newspapers, letters, and speeches to understand reactions to this brutal incident, without trying to resolve the still-disputed facts of the crime. Firsthand accounts were often contradictory, and portrayals of Hose differed starkly--from "black beast" to innocent martyr. Arnold traces how different groups interpreted and co-opted the story for their own purposes through the years. Reflecting on recent efforts to remember the lynching of Sam Hose, Arnold offers the portrait of a place still trying to reconcile itself, a century later, to its painful past.

Download or read book Report of the Committee on Fire Hose written by National Fire Protection Association and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Standard on Fire Hose written by National Fire Protection Association and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book United States Government Master Specification for Cotton Rubber lined Fire Hose couplings and Gaskets written by United States. Bureau of Standards and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book National Standard Hose Couplings and Fittings for Public Fire Service written by United States. National Bureau of Standards and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Standard Specifications for Cotton Rubber lined Fire Hose written by United States. National Bureau of Standards and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Eureka Fire Hose Manufacturing Company Atlanta Ga written by Eureka Fire Hose Manufacturing Company (Atlanta, Ga.) and published by . This book was released on 1909* with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fire Hose Practices written by International Fire Service Training Association and published by Fire Protection Publication. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hose Slinger for Retrieval of Fire Hose by Helicopter written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Fire Department Water Supply Handbook written by William F. Eckman and published by PennWell Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without a good understanding of the water supply, suppression activities could be limited and lives endangered. The author discusses various planning strategies, departmental water supply needs, shuttle operations, and water sources. In addition, he gives you ideas on writing specifications for water supply apparatus, specific SOPs, and how the water supply officer can coordinate many tasks into an efficient operation.

Download or read book Products and Priorities written by United States. War Production Board. Division of Budget Administration and published by . This book was released on with total page 1430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Survey of Fire Hose Specifications written by Richard C. Dietz and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Large Volume Water Delivery written by Paul Shapiro and published by Fire Engineering Books. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large Volume Water Delivery by Paul Shapiro keeps an open mind about old and new concepts in hose evolutions and fire stream productions. Large diameter hose is not the only fix; it needs to be blended with the latest innovations in moving water. Offensive large flow water delivery operations are critical to the fireground operations. Sometimes you need more than a single supply line. Sometimes you need dual pumping and a relay that extends 1,300 feet. Features: --How to measure water flow for fire suppression --How to develop pump discharge pressures --Discover new concepts of moving big water and the improved methods of moving big water on the fireground