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1. |  By: Ronald D. Snee; Roger W. Hoerl Publisher: PH Professional Business Publication Date: 22-OCT-2004 Insert Date: 23-MAR-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Nonmanufacturing organizations are rapidly
discovering Six Sigma's immense potential to reduce costs, improve
performance, grow revenue, strengthen focus, and empower people. To
achieve these results in your organization, start right here.
Ronald D. Snee and Roger W. Hoerl cover
every level of Six Sigma implementation in nonmanufacturing
environments: deployment planning and strategy, project execution,
methods, statistical tools, and more. Throughout, they illuminate
key concepts with case studies from a wide range of businesses and
functions. Drawing on their unsurpassed consulting...
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2. |  25 Days to Better Thinking & Better Living: A Guide for Improving Every Aspect of Your Life By: Linda Elder Dr.; Richard Paul Dr. Publisher: PH Professional Business Publication Date: 22-MAR-2006 Insert Date: 21-OCT-2006 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 25 Days to Better Thinking & Better Living: A Guide for Improving Every Aspect of Your Life You are what you think! Take
control of your thinking...and start living life to the fullest! In
just 25 days, you can discover how to cut through lies, gain
insight, and make smarter choices in every area of your
life—from work and money to your intimate relationships.
Discover how to overcome bad thinking habits caused by
self-delusion or out-of-control emotions...clarify what you really
want...recognize what you don’t know. Ask the right
questions...resist brainwashing, manipulation, and
hypocrisy...Avoid worrying, conformism, and blame!
25 powerful ways to improve your thinking—and...
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3. |  Boomer or Bust: Your Financial Guide to Retirement, Health Care, Medicare, and Long-Term Care By: Steve Weisman Publisher: PH Professional Business Publication Date: 08-AUG-2006 Insert Date: 10-AUG-2006 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Boomer or Bust: Your Financial Guide to Retirement, Health Care, Medicare, and Long-Term Care Social Security is changing. Medicare is changing. Medicaid is
changing. Retirement planning is changing. It is imperative in
order to survive financially to understand these confusing changes
and make them work to your advantage. These issues particularly
affect baby boomers caring for aging parents or planning their own
retirement and financial future. This book shows you what to
expect, what these changes mean and how to make these changes work
to your advantage.Consumer finance expert and nationally syndicated
radio host Steve Weisman begins with a complete guide to your
retirement...
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4. |  By: Howard S. Gitlow, Ph.D.; David M. Levine, Ph.D.; Edward A. Popovich, Ph.D. Publisher: PH Professional Business Publication Date: 05-JUN-2006 Insert Date: 14-JUL-2006 Slots: 1.0 | Most Six Sigma books are targeted at manufacturers, and don't
reflect the unique implementation challenges service companies
face. This book fills the gap. Using its practical, start-to-finish
guidance, service company teams can utilize Six Sigma to drive
powerful bottom-line benefits. The authors systematically introduce
the management foundation required to implement Six Sigma
successfully. Readers will discover how to lead teams to achieve
results in shorter time frames, and present projects to executives
concisely and effectively. This book thoroughly covers every stage
of the DMADV...
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5. |  Statistics for Six Sigma Green Belts with Minitab® and JMP™ By: David M. Levine Publisher: PH Professional Business Publication Date: 02-JUN-2006 Insert Date: 12-JUL-2006 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Statistics for Six Sigma Green Belts with Minitab® and JMP™ The only book on the market that provides a
simple nonmathematical presentation of the statistics needed by Six
Sigma Green Belts. Every concept is explained in plain English with
a minimum of mathematical symbols. Includes real-world examples,
step by step instructions and sample output for Minitab and JMP
software as well as downloadble, ready to use data sets and
templates. Includes applications to service industries to help
managers understand the role of Six Sigma in nonmanufacturing
industries.
Acknowledgments xvii
About the Author xix
Preface xxi
Chapter 1: Fundamentals of...
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6. |  The Truth About Managing Your Career ...and Nothing but the Truth Publisher: PH Professional Business Publication Date: 13-JAN-2006 Insert Date: 19-JAN-2006 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Truth About Managing Your Career ...and Nothing but the Truth This book reveals 60
proven principles and easy career management techniques.
Discover powerfully effective ways to start a new job and make a
great first impression; work more smoothly with bosses and
colleagues; build a high-performance personal network;
manage workloads; decide who to trust (and
distrust); handle enemies and overcome career
setbacks; recognize when to move on; get noticed, get
ahead, and get to the top! From Lois Frankel, author of
Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: "A cutting-edge
pioneer in the field of business coaching, Dr. Karen Otazo
knows--and speaks--the...
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7. |  Winning The 3-Legged Race: When Business and Technology Run Together By: Hoque; Sambamurthy; Zmud; Trainer; Wilson Publisher: PH Professional Business Publication Date: 08-NOV-2005 Insert Date: 11-NOV-2005 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Winning The 3-Legged Race: When Business and Technology Run Together Like an old-fashioned
three-legged race, the business and technology sides of any company
are running today with the left leg of one tied to the right leg of
the other. Some companies understand that and run well; some don't.
The top
executives interviewed in this
book (see overflow page for a partial list) know where competitive
leaders are headed.
Winning the Three
Legged Race is the first major output of the new
Business Technology Management (BTM) Institute, reflecting insights
from world-class experts in industry and academia. It gives
enterprise, line-of-business, and IT leaders a...
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8. |  Deal with Your Debt: The Right Way to Manage Your Bill$ and Pay Off What You Owe Publisher: PH Professional Business Publication Date: 17-AUG-2005 Insert Date: 27-AUG-2005 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Deal with Your Debt: The Right Way to Manage Your Bill$ and Pay Off What You Owe Most people carry debt for most of their adult lives.
Yet, most books on debt focus mainly on how to pay it all
off, and live forever without it. Too often, following that
advice leads only to failure. People either give up, or pay off the
wrong kinds of debt. They strand themselves with too little
flexibility to survive a financial crisis -- and land in bankruptcy
court. They neglect saving for retirement, homes, or college, and
end up poorer than they might have been. For most people,
it’s more realistic -- and smarter -- to control and
manage debt effectively, rather than eliminating it...
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9. |  The Rise of the Rogue Executive: How Good Companies Go Bad and How to Stop the Destruction By: Leonard R. Sayles; Cynthia J. Smith Publisher: PH Professional Business Publication Date: 11-AUG-2005 Insert Date: 18-AUG-2005 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Rise of the Rogue Executive: How Good Companies Go Bad and How to Stop the Destruction "Sayles and Smith have covered all the bases with a
comprehensive, yet fascinating, analysis of what has been ailing
our capital market system. A system that has given us such high
standards of living. A recommended read for those who not only want
to understand what is going on in the corporate world, but why it
is going on. Congratulations."
—Frank Kolhatkar, Retired Chairman and
Executive Director of the Global Financial Services Industries
Practice, Deloitte
"This book confronts, head-on, the problems that have beset
American, and world, business over the last decade. The...
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10. |  From Ice Cream to the Internet: Using Franchising to Drive the Growth and Profits of Your Company By: Scott A. Shane Publisher: PH Professional Business Publication Date: 11-JAN-2005 Insert Date: 22-FEB-2005 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: From Ice Cream to the Internet: Using Franchising to Drive the Growth and Profits of Your Company
In this book, Dr. Scott A. Shane systematically
helps businesses assess the pros and cons of the decision to
franchise. This book focuses squarely on the issues and
challenges faced by franchisors. Shane answers key questions such
as: What do successful franchisors do differently from unsuccessful
franchisors? Why do some companies in an industry choose to
franchise while their competitors don't? How does the decision to
franchise affect your ability to compete with firms that don't? For
businesses that choose to move forward, Shane presents proven
principles for every aspect of building...
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11. |  By: Steve Weisman Publisher: PH Professional Business Publication Date: 04-JAN-2005 Insert Date: 22-FEB-2005 Slots: 1.0 |
Everything You Need to Know About
Identity Theft, Credit Cards, Credit Repair, and Credit
Reports
"The author substitutes straight talk for
legal mumbo-jumbo in 50 Ways to Protect Your Identity and Your
Credit. Reading this book is like getting a black belt in consumer
self-defense."
–Jim
Bohannon, host of The Jim Bohannon Show
"Identity theft is among the fastest-growing
problems facing Americans today. This book will help you learn all
you need to know to protect your lives, money, and security.
Consider it your first stop in your quest for knowledge and
guidance to prevent ID...
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12. |  The Project Management Advisor: 18 Major Project Screw-ups, and How to Cut Them off at the Pass By: Lonnie Pacelli Publisher: PH Professional Business Publication Date: 24-AUG-2004 Insert Date: 19-NOV-2004 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Project Management Advisor: 18 Major Project Screw-ups, and How to Cut Them off at the Pass
This is your complete, hands-on guide to
saving projects in trouble.
Drawing on 20 years of frontline
project management experience, Lonnie Pacelli identifies the 18
most pervasive causes of project failure: their causes, early
warning signs, and how to fix them before it’s too
late.
Here’s just some of what
you’ll learn...
...how to focus on the right problem,
find and keep the right sponsors, realistically determine
scope,uncover hidden risks, write more effective project
plans...
...involve the right people, get your
whole team on the same page...
...deal with vendors who...
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13. |  Six Sigma for Green Belts and Champions: Foundations, DMAIC, Tools, Cases, and Certification By: Howard S. Gitlow; David M. Levine Publisher: PH Professional Business Publication Date: 16-JUL-2004 Insert Date: 07-NOV-2004 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Six Sigma for Green Belts and Champions: Foundations, DMAIC, Tools, Cases, and Certification "Much has been said or written in recent
times about the value of Six Sigma methodologies in driving
organizational improvement. Yet, so many still seem to be
intimidated by or skeptical about these principles and tools. In
this text, Drs. Gitlow and Levine have provided a pragmatic,
user-friendly treatment of underlying principles and methods,
management obligations, and helpful case study examples to assist
all of us in value-added enterprise-wide improvement."
–Gary Floss, Managing Director,
Bluefire Partners, and Board of Directors, the American Society for
Quality (ASQ)
"The authors...
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14. |  Winning Habits: 4 Secrets that Will Change the Rest of Your Life By: Dick Lyles Publisher: PH Professional Business Publication Date: 12-JAN-2004 Insert Date: 20-APR-2004 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Winning Habits: 4 Secrets that Will Change the Rest of Your Life 4 Simple Secrets of Success...Make Them Work for
You!“In Winning Ways, Dick Lyles showed us how to work
well with people. Now, in Winning Habits, he gives us the secrets
to a lifetime of fulfillment.”
—SPENCER JOHNSON
Author of the worldwide best seller Who Moved My Cheese?
“Dick Lyles brings a wealth of corporate experience and
business savvy to his latest innovation, Winning Habits. Uniquely
written through the eyes of fiction, this book does far more than
entertain—it inductively teaches many profound and practical
principles embodied in habits.”
—DR. STEPHEN R. COVEY
Best-selling...
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15. |  Having It All... and Making It Work: Six Steps for Putting Both Your Career and Your Family First By: D. Quinn Mills; Sasha K. Mattu; Kirstin R. Hornby Publisher: PH Professional Business Publication Date: 07-JAN-2004 Insert Date: 25-JAN-2004 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Having It All... and Making It Work: Six Steps for Putting Both Your Career and Your Family First Working 24x7? Delaying life until it's too late? You have the
ability stop!
Having it All ... and Making it Work is a fast-paced,
easy-to-use book offering you a new pathway towards managing
personal life and professional life--without sacrificing either one
of them. This book isn't just more whining and exhortation: it
delivers specific, bite-sized, no-fluff solutions for managing your
life, including crucial execution steps you can take immediately.
Mills teaches you how to identify and balance what's most important
to you--and give up what you don't want badly enough. He also shows
how...
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16. |  Guide to Elder Planning, A: Everything You Need to Know to Protect Yourself Legally & Financially By: Steve Weisman Publisher: PH Professional Business Publication Date: 24-SEP-2003 Insert Date: 21-OCT-2003 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Guide to Elder Planning, A: Everything You Need to Know to Protect Yourself Legally & Financially Let's face it... in today's world, senior citizens and their
families face more complicated financial, legal and personal
planning decisions than ever before--and making the wrong decisions
can be catastrophic. In this book, Steven J.J. Weisman, renowned
estate planning attorney and host of the nationally syndicated
radio show "A Touch of Grey," offers you practical, simple guidance
on every one of these issues. Written with simplicity and humor,
Elder Planning uncovers strategies and loopholes for
retirement, health care, long-term care, asset protection,
investments, taxes, social security,...
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