Download or read book KISS Keep It Simple and Sustainable written by Lowell J. Puls and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lean Enterprise has been a leading strategy to drive business improvement for over twenty years. When the tools are thoroughly and consistently applied, the results can exceed comprehension. Too often however, Lean efforts fail outright or generate middling results, with improvements disappearing; buried by changes in markets, strategy, or the loss of key personnel. The most common reason for failure in Lean is an organizations culture, and while many of those cultures possess behaviors that run counter to the Lean principles, it's more often an undercurrent created by non-Lean management behaviors that drive change efforts adrift. KISS IS about Managing Lean! Its goal is to expose the management behaviors that provide energy to that undercurrent, while suggesting systemic approaches eliminate them, freeing up your culture. The result will be sustained improvements and a steady evolution to a Lean culture. KISS will help you to define your leadership role, walk you through a strategy check, and draft your objectives. Next, it guides you through organizing your change management team and resetting their key priorities. Finally it shows how to use the Lean tools to initiate behavioral change, supported by updated metrics and revised business systems. KISS clears your path to sustaining transformational improvements.

Download or read book New Network Architectures written by Tania Tronco and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Future Internet" is a worldwide hot topic. The Internet has become a critical infrastructure for business development and social interactions. However, the immense growth of the Internet has resulted in additional stresses on its architecture, resulting in a network difficult to monitor, understand, and manage due to its huge scale in terms of connected devices and actors (end users, content providers, equipment vendors, etc). This book presents and discusses the ongoing initiatives and experimental facilities for the creation of new Future Internet Architectures using alternative approaches like Clean Slate and Incremental improvements: It considers several possible internet network use scenarios that include seamless mobility, ad hoc networks, sensor networks, internet of things and new paradigms like content and user centric networks.

Download or read book HowExpert Guide to Homeschooling written by HowExpert and published by HowExpert. This book was released on 2024-02-19 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HowExpert Guide to Homeschooling is a comprehensive guide with 101+ tips and lessons on how to homeschool your children for elementary, middle school, and high school. If you have been curious about how to homeschool, teach, and educate your children but aren’t sure where to start, you are in luck! This easy-to-follow, basic guide will walk you through everything you need to know to get started on the right foot. From preparing yourself mentally to choosing a curriculum, from directing toddlers to dealing with teens, here you have access to a homeschooling veteran’s best experiences, tips, and lessons for success. HowExpert Guide to Homeschooling can help children of all ages. It doesn’t matter if you are beginning with kindergarten or pulling your kids out of public school to homeschool them in junior high. The ideas here will help you build a solid foundation and avoid common pitfalls to ultimately help your kids for homeschooling success for all levels. Here's what you get inside HowExpert Guide to Homeschooling: - 101+ tips and lessons about homeschooling your kids from scheduling to graduation for elementary, middle school, and high school years. - Jump directly to the sections that apply to you: for example, read Chapter 1 to help you define WHY you want to homeschool and WHAT you want it to look like, and then jump to Chapter 5 to help you homeschool your high schooler. - Real-life stories and examples from many different homeschoolers in every imaginable situation. - Resources to help you maximize your child’s education and the options available to them. - Advice for navigating through parenting PLUS teaching your kids. - Extracurricular activities for kids and much more! Check out HowExpert Guide to Homeschooling to learn how to teach, educate, and homeschool your children for elementary, middle school, and high school. About the Author Adrienne Stokley is a homeschool alumnus (class of ‘96), as well as a homeschooling mom of 12. So far, four of those children have graduated; one is serving in the armed forces, one is attending college, one is a customer service specialist, and one is a business owner. Another one is graduating this year and already owns a dog grooming business. She also coordinates her local homeschool co-op and teaches Spanish and English. She resides on a farm in south central Texas, where she and her family raise meat goats, registered Dexter cattle, and lots and lots of children. HowExpert publishes how to guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

Download or read book Genetic Glass Ceilings written by Jonathan Gressel and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world’s population rises to an expected ten billion in the next few generations, the challenges of feeding humanity and maintaining an ecological balance will dramatically increase. Today we rely on just four crops for 80 percent of all consumed calories: wheat, rice, corn, and soybeans. Indeed, reliance on these four crops may also mean we are one global plant disease outbreak away from major famine. In this revolutionary and controversial book, Jonathan Gressel argues that alternative plant crops lack the genetic diversity necessary for wider domestication and that even the Big Four have reached a “genetic glass ceiling”: no matter how much they are bred, there is simply not enough genetic diversity available to significantly improve their agricultural value. Gressel points the way through the glass ceiling by advocating transgenics—a technique where genes from one species are transferred to another. He maintains that with simple safeguards the technique is a safe solution to the genetic glass ceiling conundrum. Analyzing alternative crops—including palm oil, papaya, buckwheat, tef, and sorghum—Gressel demonstrates how gene manipulation could enhance their potential for widespread domestication and reduce our dependency on the Big Four. He also describes a number of ecological benefits that could be derived with the aid of transgenics. A compelling synthesis of ideas from agronomy, medicine, breeding, physiology, population genetics, molecular biology, and biotechnology, Genetic Glass Ceilings presents transgenics as an inevitable and desperately necessary approach to securing and diversifying the world's food supply.

Download or read book K I S S Keep It Simple Sexy written by Sheeba Forbes and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: K.I.S.S. introduces women to a step-by-step proven process that delivers fulfilling results in work, life, and love. The steps within are easy to follow, and Sheeba Forbes guides women along the way to deepen their sense of self and develop an inspiring vision for their life. The role of the reader is to commit and be their best because that is the landmark goal that influences every aspect of life. K.I.S.S. is unique because it converges practical understanding with guided exercises and Artificial Intelligence. It introduces readers to a 4-week online course that enables and supports their transformation and gives them access to one communication with Sheeba. It is time for all women to stop playing small, claim their throne, and let their sexy flow!

Download or read book Aid Donor Collaboration Organizational Behavior and Aid Flow Predictability written by David Bell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides four strategic recommendations for cross-sector, cross-cultural collaborations to effectively and meaningfully address adverse societal challenges. • Monitor external factors to ensure the environment is conducive for sustainable growth of the initiative. • Employ effective leadership and competent staff who should be given early attention. A multicultural team embodies the organizational attributes and intelligence needed to account for variance in behavior within a context. • Provide sufficient funding and marshal sufficient resources to collect data required to inform learning and make thoughtful, nuanced, strategic decisions as the program progresses. • The project’s commitments must be timely and accurately accounted for. Entering collaboration makes one-on-one commitments between members subject to additional commitments that must be accounted for.

Download or read book Sustainability written by Tyler Helm and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renewable energy and sustainable development have become more prominent in the world, providing capitalistic opportunities for shrewd businessmen and corporate wars. When an opportunity to provide a renewable electricity source for a new city in Saudi Arabia is released for tender, billionaire entrepreneur and investment savant, Jim Dunsmuir, begins building a revolutionary idea he believes will change the face of the world’s power and travel systems. His competition is ex-oil magnate, George Anderson, the founder of one of the largest solar companies in the world. Now he is out to win the contract for his solar power company at all costs, even if it means pushing the boundaries of the law. Stuck in the middle of his dark mission is former NYPD detective Richard Emerson and his team at Trade Link Security. George has a way of making Richard feel like their periodic forays into the grey area of the law are inevitable and acceptable, despite Richard’s misgivings. As a high stakes battle begins, now only time will tell which entrepreneur will land the contract and which one will be sent down a path he never expected. In this thrilling tale, two successful entrepreneurs embark on separate journeys to make their mark in the ever-changing world of sustainable development and renewable energy.

Download or read book Proceedings of the NDIEAS 2024 International Symposium on New Dimensions and Ideas in Environmental Anthropology 2024 NDIEAS 2024 written by Tulishree Pradhan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book K I S S written by Trina Wiggins and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-05 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: K.I.S.S. for a Healthy, Sustainable Lifestyle is a self-help book designed for people seeking to achieve a simplistic health routine for a lifetime. Dr. Trina offers realistic fitness and nutritional goals adaptable to our busy lives. She provides options to help you identify your unique daily fitness plan to ensure you become consistently consistent. She gives your pantry a complete makeover and offers common sense nutritional facts along with providing tasty recipes loaded with nutrients. In addition to the fitness and nutritional recommendations, she proposes various ways you can modify your environment to ultimately create a personal sanctuary promoting physical and mental well-being.

Download or read book The Wellspring Weight Loss Plan written by Daniel S. Kirschenbaum and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wellspring Weight-Loss Plan outlines the weight-loss program of the same name that has helped thousands of teens lose weight and find happiness. This plan is built on three principles: science, simplicity and sustainability and follows the 3-1-8 plan: • 3 Simple Behavioral Goals: eat as little fat as possible, walk at least 10,000 steps per day, and write down your eating and activities • 1 Challenging Mission: to develop a “healthy obsession" • 8 Steps to Developing a Healthy Obsession: Make the Decision; Know the Enemy—Your Biology; Eat to Lose; Find Lovable Foods that Love You Back; Move to Lose; Self-Monitor and Plan Consistently; Understand and Manage Stress—With and Without Food; and Use Slump Busters to Overcome Slumps Hundreds of news and television stories around the world have followed the development of Wellspring's programs, starting with two camps in the summer of 2004 and expanding to 12 programs in the summer of 2010. From Wellspring Camps to Wellspring Academies (the world's first boarding schools for overweight teenagers) to Wellspring Vacations and Retreats (eight-day programs for adults), Wellspring participants learn to master the 3-1-8 approach described in The Wellspring Weight-Loss Plan. Find out why this program works and use it to transform the lives of teens you know.

Download or read book SCRAPPY GENERAL MANAGEMENT Tweet Book01 written by Michael Horton and published by Happy About. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the routinely-chaotic world of general management that you live in, you don't have the luxury of reading management books cover to cover, no matter how much they can help you. You need a book that you can flip open and learn something that applies to your world...not next week...not tomorrow...but NOW. Michael Horton wrote #SCRAPPY GENERAL MANAGEMENT tweet just for you, so that you can still benefit from today's best management wisdom. Next time you're sitting at your desk at a loss for ideas or simply facing the question, 'What do I do next?' pull this handy volume out of your bookshelf, flip it open, and expect to find a scrappy little nugget of wisdom that will make your next management decision just a tweety bit easier.

Download or read book The Trend Management Toolkit written by A. Kjaer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fast moving world, businesses need to keep up with data analysis and pattern spotting to identify future opportunities. Anne Lise Kjaer presents a unique methodology for global trend spotting along with practical tools and approaches to help companies and organizations analyse market changes and determine the way ahead.

Download or read book Making Educational Changes Sustainable A Guide written by David Baine, Ph.D. and published by vectorbaine.com. This book was released on 2020-04-12 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billions of dollars are wasted on unsuccessful educational innovations. The results: failure to improve student outcomes, discouraged teachers, and wasted hope, time and money! This Guide demonstrates how to introduce positive and sustainable educational improvements - based on leading research. Practical step-by-step methods demonstrate: • preplanning: analysis of influential social, political, educational, financial, and policy characteristics of contexts into which changes will be introduced - make contextually-valid decisions; • how to identify and prevent impediments to change; • Implementation: use systematic strategies for introducing change; • how to create a culture of collaboration, collegiality, and authenticity - united in the focus: “We can improve student achievements!” • how to team with stakeholders: the government, school boards, teachers, students, parents and the community; • how to deliver effective, classroom-valid, professional development; • how to establish active and engaged communication for mutual feedback, mentoring and reinforcement; • Evaluation: how to select valid and reliable methods of program evaluation; • how to make data-based decisions for program; • Sustainment: how to make durable educational changes. Written by an award-winning author, David Baine, academic and practitioner. If you want to improve student achievements, this is a must have Guide.

Download or read book A 2 Z 26 Steps for Assured Success written by Sarbjit Singh and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A2Z 26 Steps for Assured Success is a jargon-free, compact and easy-to-grasp handy reference for business executives, team-leaders or managers with three to fifteen years’ experience to re-assess themselves and progress faster in their career. All steps are in a bulleted form for ready-to-use (PPT) slides by teachers, professors, HRD managers and career counselors. Due emphasis has been given to embrace emerging technologies and be a part of Digital world. This book will empower all young professionals of any field to boost their confidence and grow. Sarbjit Singh has tried to add value, based on his thirty years in the Indian Army, ten years in corporate sector and twelve years as an educationist. Even if you follow half the steps and apply 50% of the knowledge, you will still see more than 30% improvement in your professional capability. This book is not a one-time read; it can be your partner in success that you can refer to anytime you want.

Download or read book An Introduction to Sustainable Tourism written by Alexandra Coghlan and published by Goodfellow Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2023-06-10 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully revised and updated for a second edition, it provides a comprehensive, pragmatic, and realistic look at integrating sustainability into tourism. Includes two new chapters on regenerative tourism and disruptors including the impact of COVID-19 and new material on systems thinking, influencing behaviours and green marketing.

Download or read book No Waste written by Uly Ma and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainability is a critical issue for the construction industry. In the short term, sustainability is often seen as a 'must do' item. In the longer term, all contractors will be seeing it as a source of competitive advantage. Public sector construction, infrastructure and other large projects such as the Thames Gateway and the Olympics in 2012 are all being driven down this route by pressure from Government. Uly Ma's No Waste is an extremely practical guide to managing sustainability in construction that draws on input from all the related stakeholders: the construction industry itself, the clients, designers and architects and the trades. The book explores how the industry can transform itself from business as before to business as it should be, from the micro level of good site practices to setting the right policies that drives a company onwards. The text covers the management of sustainability and the accompanying CD ROM includes a wealth of material such as tool kits, templates and activities that can be shared throughout the organisation and used for team meetings, communication and training.

Download or read book Learning with Lean written by James Zurn and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The toughest Lean journeys are those taken in organizations that have achieved long-term success. Processes and people become fixed in their ways and exhibit a natural resistance to change. But, regardless of how well your organization is performing, unless you have a sustainable competitive advantage, you are at risk.Examining the performance gap between good organizations and great ones, Learning with Lean: Unleashing the Potential for Sustainable Competitive Advantage explains how to use Lean as a learning vehicle for achieving and sustaining a competitive advantage.Helping you better understand the current state of your organization, the book outlines a series of five simple phases for developing an architecture and implementation plan to transform your organization‘s performance. These five phases fit neatly into a closed-system model that has similarities to the Plan-Do-Check-Act quality model. The model is simple, easy to communicate, and easy to implement Assess, Plan, Prepare, Do, and Learn.Supplies a brief overview of Lean toolsProvides an understanding of the Voice of the Customer as a focusing engineCovers measurement and goal settingIllustrates the dynamics of organizational change Explains how to boost learning through LeanThe authors guide you through the deployment of training and the implementation of new knowledge and skills around Lean. In addition, they also explain how to find and improve on the areas where waste exists so your organization can reinvent the way it learns.Effective management techniques recognize the need for balance, and this book is no different. Helping you pinpoint where those balances and dichotomies exist, it arms you with powerful techniques to manage these challenges and to transform your organization into a change-hungry Lean learni