Download or read book Learning from the Past Present and Future to Drive Profits to New Levels written by Bob Sproull and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The content of this book is centered around three seemingly diverse themes. The first theme is why it’s so important for companies to learn from the past, the present, and the future. The author covers some of the key learnings from the distant and current past, and how these learnings changed the course for many companies. He discusses new learnings that have been developed in our current state and will continue to be brought forward. He provides a look into the future, just to make sure companies understand that they should always be looking for better ways to function. The second theme is centered around problem-solving, problem prevention, and decision-making. That is, how to successfully define problems that already exist in your current reality, how to prevent problems from occurring in the future, and how to make much more effective decisions. Problems have plagued many companies for many years and knowing how to follow a structured approach to solve them should prove to be very useful. And perhaps even more important than solving problems, is how companies can go about preventing the problems from occurring in the first place. Think about how your company might look if the plethora of problems to solve didn’t exist. And with current or potential problems, many decisions must be made. The final theme in this book is how to successfully implement the Theory of Constraints, and then combine Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and the Theory of Constraints. The Theory of Constraints should be considered the "missing link" in most improvement initiatives. The author presents, in detail, why combining the Theory of Constraints with Lean and Six Sigma and all of the associated improvement tools and techniques will take your company to new levels of profitability. He introduces two new roadmaps. One roadmap is on how to implement the Theory of Constraints, while the other new roadmap is how to implement my Ultimate Improvement Cycle.

Download or read book Frequency in Language written by Dagmar Divjak and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-examines frequency, entrenchment and salience, three foundational concepts in usage-based linguistics, through the prism of learning, memory, and attention.

Download or read book Universal Design 2016 Learning from the Past Designing for the Future written by H. Petrie and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universal Design is the term used to describe the design of products and environments which can be used by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design. It is not a euphemism for ‘designs for people with a disability’, but really is about designing to include all people, regardless of their age, ability, cultural background or status in life. However it remains the case that many designers and developers fail to understand the need for universal design and lack the skills needed to implement it. This book presents papers from the 3rd International Conference on Universal Design (UD 2016), held in York, UK, in August 2016. The theme of the conference was: learning from the past, designing for the future, and it aimed to bring together policymakers, practitioners and researchers interested in the different strands of universal design to exchange ideas and best practice, review some of the developments in universal design from the last 20 years, and formulate strategies for taking the concept of universal design forward into the future. The book is divided into two sections. Section 1: About Universal Design, and Section 2: Universal Design In Practice. The book will be of interest to all those whose work involves design, from the built environment and tangible products to communication, services and systems.

Download or read book Beyond the Breakup Unpacking The Pain And Stepping Into Your Best Self written by Lun Frederick and published by zorins . This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beyond the Breakup: Unpacking the Pain and Stepping into Your Best Self" is a comprehensive guidebook that offers solace, understanding, and practical strategies for individuals who have experienced the overwhelming pain of heartbreak. Tailored to young adults and adults navigating breakups, this universally applicable book recognizes that heartbreak knows no boundaries of age, gender, or location. The purpose of this book is to help readers navigate the treacherous waters of post-breakup agony and find their way back to happiness. It emphasizes the importance of active effort and deliberate steps towards healing, going beyond the notion that time alone can mend a broken heart. By providing tools to cope with the emotional impact of heartbreak, this book aims to facilitate transformative growth and renewed hope. Readers will find tailored guidance throughout the book, whether they are fresh out of a relationship or contemplating ending one. It delves into the stages of grief, offering reassurance that their feelings are valid and healing is possible. Additionally, "Beyond the Breakup: Unpacking the Pain and Stepping into Your Best Self" explores self-care practices essential during the healing process. Readers will discover ways to prioritize well-being through activities promoting self-love and compassion. Exercise, relaxation techniques, and nourishing their bodies with healthy food are all explored. Building resilience is another key aspect addressed within the book. Insights on rebuilding self-esteem and fostering a positive self-image are offered, along with guidance on cultivating a strong support network and surrounding oneself with uplifting people. Through exploration of various perspectives on love and relationships, readers will gain insights into past dynamics and learn how to avoid similar pitfalls in the future. The goal is not to rush into another relationship but rather to open oneself up to love again when ready. Recovering from a broken heart is not an easy journey, but by embarking on it with "Beyond the Breakup: Unpacking the Pain and Stepping into Your Best Self," readers take an important step towards healing and transformation. This book offers unwavering support, understanding, and guidance every step of the way. It provides a compass for navigating the complexities of heartbreak, leading readers towards transformative growth and renewed hope. Prepare yourself for a journey that will mend your shattered soul and rediscover the joy within you. "How to Get Over a Broken Heart" holds the power to guide you through the healing process and equip you with the tools needed to move forward in a healthy way.

Download or read book A Step Into The Past I Am Han Xin written by Yi ZhiTuBi and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 1381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The struggles between the Immortal, Devil, and Mortal Realms have been endless since time immemorial. The shadows of the sword and Light Sword stained the clothes with blood. Fight for the world! Hunting absolute beauties! To overturn the Heavenly Dao! Only I am! It was a fantasy, a war between all the beings of the three realms. It was a military battle, a war on the battlefield, a war against each other. It was history. Han Xin! A loud name made everyone's blood boil. Behind him, there were even Liu Bang, Xiang Yu, the two prodigies, Zhang Liang, Princess Yu, and Xin Zhui.

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Download or read book Playing with the Past Into the Future written by Erik Champion and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the turn of this century (and even earlier), a plethora of projects have arisen to promise us bold new interactive adventures and immersive travel into the past with digital environments (using mixed, virtual or augmented reality, as well as computer games). In Playing with the Past: Into the Future Erik Champion surveys past attempts to communicate history and heritage through virtual environments and suggests new technology and creative ideas for more engaging and educational games and virtual learning environments. This second edition builds on and updates the first edition with new game discussions, surveys, design frameworks, and theories on how cultural heritage could be experienced in digital worlds, via museums, mobile phones, or the Metaverse. Recent games and learning environments are reviewed, with provocative discussion of new and emerging promises and challenges.

Download or read book Act Like a Success Think Like a Success written by Steve Harvey and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Steve Harvey told women what it takes to succeed in love. Now, he tells everyone how to succeed in life, giving you the keys to fulfill your purpose. Countless books on success tell you what you need to get that you don’t already possess. In Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success, Steve Harvey tells you how to achieve your dreams using the gift you already have. Every one of us was born with a gift endowed by our creator—something you do the best at with very little effort. While it can be like someone else’s, your gift is yours alone. No one can take it away. You are the only one who can use it—or waste it. Steve shows how that gift holds your greatest chance at success, and the fulfillment of your life’s mission and purpose. He helps you learn to define your gift—whether it’s being a problem solver, a people-connector, a whiz with numbers, or having an eye for colors. He makes clear that your job is not your gift; you may use it in your work, but it can also be used in your marriage or relationship, your community, and throughout every aspect of your life. Throughout, he provides a set of principles that will help you direct your gift. “The scriptures say your gift will make room for you and put you in the presence of great men,” Steve reminds us. This book is your roadmap to identifying your gift, acknowledging it, perfecting it, connecting it to a vehicle, and riding it to success. Because Success is the gift you already have.” Funny yet firm, told in Steve’s warm and insightful voice, and peppered with anecdotes from his own life, practical advice, and truthful insights, this essential guide can help you transform your life and achieve everything you were born to.

Download or read book Step Into Your Power written by Randi Light and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research clearly demonstrates that self-care helps us to heal and moves humanity forward at the same time. My intentions for this guidebook are to make it easy for you to keep track of your coaching, learning and hypnotic experiences. Your mind is powerful, creative and virtually untapped. Our work together will give you opportunities to see things in ways you have never seen. This work provides a framework for 'aha' moments, intuitive insights, emotional clearing and deep healing. Our work together could possibly be one of your most life changing experiences. This is the time to heal emotionally, physically, mentally, financially, physically, sexually and spiritually.

Download or read book Hard Landings written by Cammie McGovern and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A game-changing exploration of what the future holds for the first generation of mainstreamed neurodiverse kids that is coming of age. After sleepless nights, intensive research, and twenty-one years of raising a child, Ethan, with autism and intellectual disability, Cammie McGovern is approaching a distinct catch-22. Once Ethan turns twenty-two, he will fall off the "Disability Cliff." By aging out of the school system, he'll lose access to most social, educational, and vocational resources. The catch is this: These resources, limited as they may be, have trained Ethan in skills for jobs that don't exist and a life he can't have. Here, McGovern expands on her #1 New York Times piece, "Looking into the Future for a Child with Autism," a future that often appears grim, with statistics like an 85 percent unemployment rate for people with ID. McGovern spent a year traveling the country and looking at the options for work and housing--and to her surprise discovered reasons to be optimistic. She asks the tough questions: What should parents prioritize as they ready their children for adulthood? How do we redefine success for our children? How can we sustain a hopeful attitude while navigating one obstacle after another? As Ethan makes his way into the world, McGovern also looks into the hardest question of all: How can we ensure an independent future when we're gone? Hard Landings will serve as a renewed beacon of hope for parents who want to ensure the fullest life possible for their child's future.

Download or read book Tales Of Enchantment written by Carol H. Lankton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can a therapist do when faced with the all-too-familiar client who seems stuck or resistant? With this volume, veteran therapists Carol and Steve Lankton offer clinicians an effective tool with which they can expand their ability to be successful in therapy through integrating the use of indirection into the more commonly used rational and direct approach. This is a book of predesigned stories that the Lanktons and their trainees have told in successful therapy in order to assist clients in their movement toward specific, preplanned goals. The stories are categorized according to the way they are structured to reach particular types of goals, such as changes in affect, attitudinal restructuring, changes in behavior, changes in family structure, changes in self-image and many others.

Download or read book Moving on Woman with a Past Seeks Man for the Future written by Marie Likisch and published by novum pro Verlag. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie Likisch tells the story of her life - a 40 year old mom with six children, an ex-partner who is the father of the children and an ex-partner with whom she had had an affair. She lives in a village in Bavaria and suffers from severe heartache. Therefore, she looks for a man on the internet. The author wrote this novel in a time of spiritual misery and agony of love. It reflects her soul, her heart and her attitude. Once witty and lively, once serious and thoughtful. No fictional characters because life provides enough material to fill volumes. In this book, the author develops her own philosophy of life.

Download or read book Artificial Intelligence for Future Intelligent Transportation written by Rajesh Kumar Dhanaraj and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emphasizing a sustainable and green approach, this new book presents an overview of state-of-the-art AI strategies for solving transportation challenges around the world, with a focus on traffic management, traffic safety, public transportation, urban mobility, and pollution mitigation. The book examines modern AI technologies such as IoT, cloud computing, machine learning, and neural networking in the context of fully automated transportation that meets current requirements. The volume provides an informative review of the difficulties and recent developments in smart mobility and transportation, encompassing technical, algorithmic, and social elements. The volume examines innovative service and platform concepts for future mobility. Artificial intelligence principles are examined as well as their implementation in modern hardware architecture. New machine learning issues for autonomous vehicles and fleets are investigated in the framework of artificial intelligence. In addition, the book investigates the human dynamics and social implications of future mobility concepts. Highlighting the research directions in this field, Artificial Intelligence for Future Intelligent Transportation: Smarter and Greener Infrastructure Design will be of value for researchers in cybersecurity, machine learning, data analysis, and artificial intelligence. Ethical hackers, students, and faculty will find useful information here as well.

Download or read book Intercultural Competence Past Present and Future written by María Dolores López-Jiménez and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the benefits of teaching reflection upon one’s own culture to develop intercultural competence and looks into the relationship between the proficiency level of the second language and the target culture. It introduces new debates on the concept of ‘critical cultural awareness’ in intercultural learning and teaching, for example the indiscriminate use of terminologies related to the idea of ‘intercultural encounters’. Also, it provides insight into the relationship between language and culture using a new tool such as the Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters through Visual Media. The presentation of different approaches, tools, barriers, educational and cultural realities, online intercultural exchange projects and concepts such as motivation, attitudes, stereotyping, otherization, and critical cultural awareness makes this book an excellent instrument not only for teachers but also for researchers, policy-makers and private and public institutions that want to explore culture and interculturality and to promote an intercultural competence and global citizenship among its learners / users / clients and / or an interculturally-oriented language education.

Download or read book Embracing God s Future without Forgetting the Past written by Michael K. Girlinghouse and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many congregations today are dealing with changes that have led to decline and significant loss. In Embracing God's Future without Forgetting the Past, Michael K. Girlinghouse argues that until a congregation comes to terms with its perceived losses through a healthy process of grief, it will be paralyzed in the present and unable to think creatively about the future. Acknowledging and expressing grief will give the congregation the courage to redefine its relationship with the past and draw strength and encouragement from its memories as it steps into the future. Drawing on more than thirty years of ministry experience in varied settings and concurrent study and teaching about loss, grief, and nostalgia, Girlinghouse shows clergy, church staff, and lay leaders how they can work through the experience of loss and grief, both personally and in their congregation. Part 1 discusses loss and grief using a contemporary, task-based model for the grief process. It also introduces recent research on the value of nostalgia. In part 2, Girlinghouse helps leaders tell their congregation's story, including its losses, examine how that story fits in our current social context, and explore ways to accept the reality of its losses and express grief over them. Part 3 considers ways congregations can think more adaptively and creatively about the future without forgetting or devaluing the past. Girlinghouse presents appreciative inquiry as a tool to discover and build on a congregation's strengths while coming to terms with its losses. Part 4 is about embracing God's future for the congregation, "remembering forward," and making the changes necessary to move from the sadness of loss to the joy of taking up life again. Each chapter includes a Bible study and questions for reflection and discussion.

Download or read book Knowing the Past Facing the Future written by Sheila Carr-Stewart and published by Purich Books. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1867, Canada’s federal government became responsible for the education of Indigenous peoples: Status Indians and some Métis would attend schools on reserves; non-Status Indians and some Métis would attend provincial schools. The system set the stage for decades of broken promises and misguided experiments that are only now being rectified in the spirit of truth and reconciliation. Knowing the Past, Facing the Future traces the arc of Indigenous education since Confederation and draws a road map of the obstacles that need to be removed before the challenge of reconciliation can be met. This insightful volume is organized in three parts. The opening chapters examine colonial promises and practices, including the treaty right to education and the establishment of day, residential, and industrial schools. The second part focuses on the legacy of racism, trauma, and dislocation, and the third part explores contemporary issues in curriculum development, assessment, leadership, and governance. This diverse collection reveals the possibilities and problems associated with incorporating Traditional Knowledge and Indigenous teaching and healing practices into school courses and programs.

Download or read book Effective Supervision for the Helping Professions written by Michael Carroll and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using features such as case studies, exercises and points for reflection, this is an ideal introduction to managing the supervisory relationship for both trainee and supervisor. This second edition of the book formerly titled Counselling Supervision now covers new and contemporary areas of supervision such as ethical maturity, insights into supervision from neuroscience, the organisational demands from the various contexts in which supervision takes place. It widens the concept of supervision to include professions such as coaching, organisational development consulting, counselling and psychology.