KISS: Keep It Simple and Sustainable
KISS: Keep It Simple and Sustainable

Author: Lowell J. Puls

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2013-08

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1481771094

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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.

New Network Architectures
New Network Architectures

Author: Tania Tronco

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-07-20

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 3642132472

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"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.

HowExpert Guide to Homeschooling
HowExpert Guide to Homeschooling

Author: HowExpert

Publisher: HowExpert

Published: 2024-02-19

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1962386163

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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.

Genetic Glass Ceilings
Genetic Glass Ceilings

Author: Jonathan Gressel

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2020-03-03

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 1421429136

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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.

Aid Donor Collaboration, Organizational Behavior, and Aid Flow Predictability
Aid Donor Collaboration, Organizational Behavior, and Aid Flow Predictability

Author: David Bell

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-06-23

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1498568955

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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.

Sustainability
Sustainability

Author: Tyler Helm

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2020-07-07

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1532084439

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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.

The Wellspring Weight Loss Plan
The Wellspring Weight Loss Plan

Author: Daniel S. Kirschenbaum

Publisher: BenBella Books, Inc.

Published: 2011-03-01

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1936661004

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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.

K. I. S. S.
K. I. S. S.

Author: Trina Wiggins

Publisher:

Published: 2020-06-05

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 9781655098437

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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.

#SCRAPPY GENERAL MANAGEMENT Tweet Book01
#SCRAPPY GENERAL MANAGEMENT Tweet Book01

Author: Michael Horton

Publisher: Happy About

Published: 2011-09-22

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 1616990600

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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.