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Lean Thinking : Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, Revised and Updated
Expanded, updated, and more relevant than ever, this bestselling business classic by two internationally renowned management analysts describes a business system for the twenty-first century that supersedes the mass production system of Ford, the financial control system of Sloan, and the strategic system of Welch and GE. It is based on the Toyota (lean) model, which combines operational excellence with value-based strategies to produce steady growth through a wide range of economic conditions. In contrast with the crash-and-burn performance of companies trumpeted by business gurus in the 1990s, the firms profiled in Lean Thinking -- from tiny Lantech to midsized Wiremold to niche producer Porsche to gigantic Pratt & Whitney -- have kept on keeping on, largely unnoticed, along a steady upward path through the market turbulence and crushed dreams of the early twenty-first century. Meanwhile, the leader in lean thinking -- Toyota -- has set its sights on leadership of the global motor vehicle industry in this decade. Instead of constantly reinventing business models, lean thinkers go back to basics by asking what the customer really perceives as value. (It's often not at all what existing organizations and assets would suggest.) The next step is to line up value-creating activities for a specific product along a value stream while eliminating activities (usually the majority) that don't add value. Then the lean thinker creates a flow condition in which the design and the product advance smoothly and rapidly at the pull of the customer (rather than the push of the producer). Finally, as flow and pull are implemented, the lean thinker speeds up the cycle of improvement in pursuit of perfection. The first part of this book describes each of these concepts and makes them come alive with striking examples. Lean Thinking clearly demonstrates that these simple ideas can breathe new life into any company in any industry in any country. But most managers need guidance on how to make the lean leap in their firm. Part II provides a step-by-step action plan, based on in-depth studies of more than fifty lean companies in a wide range of industries across the world. Even those readers who believe they have embraced lean thinking will discover in Part III that another dramatic leap is possible by creating an extended lean enterprise for each of their product families that tightly links value-creating activities from raw materials to customer. In Part IV, an epilogue to the original edition, the story of lean thinking is brought up-to-date with an enhanced action plan based on the experiences of a range of lean firms since the original publication of Lean Thinking. Lean Thinking does not provide a new management "program" for the one-minute manager. Instead, it offers a new method of thinking, of being, and, above all, of doing for the serious long-term manager -- a method that is changing the world..
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Engine Management: Advanced Tuning
As tools for tuning modern engines have become more powerful and sophisticated in recent years, the need for in-depth knowledge of engine management systems and tuning techniques has grown. Tuning engines can be a mysterious art, all engines need a precise balance of fuel, air, and timing in order to reach their true performance potential. This book explains how the EFI system determines engine operation and how the calibrator can change the controlling parameters to optimize actual engine performance. Engine Management: Advanced Tuning takes engine-tuning techniques to the next level. It is a must-have for tuners and calibrators and a valuable resource for anyone who wants to make horsepower with a fuel-injected, electronically controlled engine. Author Greg Banish is a calibration engineer with extensive aftermarket performance calibration experience. He has a BSME from GMI Engineering and Management Institute (Kettering University). With over a thousand unique calibrations performed over five years, he has worked with enthusiasts and OEMs alike to improve the performance and driving behavior of a wide range of vehicles. The book contains detailed equations, graphs, and illustrations. Also included are valuable and practical examples, including real-world examples based upon the author’s experience that will help more advanced readers apply this new information to situations that are commonly seen during calibration. .
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Just Gus: A Rescued Dog and the Woman He Loved
Gus was a lucky dog. Injured and abandoned, he could have become another of the 7 million animals euthanized every year. Then Stephanie Williams entered the picture. A successful journalist, she had been diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer at the age of 30. On medical leave and living alone, she wanted a warm four-legged companion. When she saw Gus's soulful eyes and goofy grin, it was love at first sight: she would rescue him, and he would return the favor. Just Gus is about how much one dog did to make a dying woman happy — giving tireless love, comfort, and support. This extraordinary story shows how one dog brought joy and hope to a woman's last days..
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The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again
Renowned nutrition expert Jack Challem isolates the nutritional triggers of bad moods, providing solutions that will help you stabilize your moods, gain energy, sleep better, handle stress, and be more focused He lays out a clear-cut, four-step plan for feeding the brain the right nutrition, presenting advice on choosing the right foods and supplements as well as improving lifestyle habits to help regulate mood swings..
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Zen Architecture
Paul Discoe was in on the ground floor of Zen architecture in the United States. In the 1960s he became a student of Zen Buddhism, studying and building at the Tassajara complex in northern California. His own wood-based Zen-Buddhism architectural structures and renovations in the United States and Europe are the focus of this book. With passionate prose, Discoe identifies the elements of Buddhism that are represented in his buildings and describes the trials and triumphs of blending current building methods and codes of the United States with ancient Japanese joinery techniques. Zen-Inspired Architecture has delightful photography of his structures, and the illustrations show just how a Zen structure has its beginnings. .
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BANISH YOUR BELLY, BUTT AND THIGHS (FOREVER!) The Real Woman's Guide to Permanent Weight Loss
For real women! No more fad diets, frantic gym visits, and fastidious calorie counting Here is the book that will show you how to lose weight and shape up and tone your trouble spots regardless of how hectic a life you lead. Banish Your Belly, Butt, and Thighs Forever! provides hundreds of ways for you to schedule in exercise painlessly, reduce the calorie content of your meals without giving up taste, and create healthier-- yet still realistic-- daily routines.Invite simple strategies, small changes, and a firmer, fitter body into your future. .
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5 Days to a Flatter Stomach: Beat the Bulge and Banish Bloating
Almost everyone would love to have a flatter stomach--and now everyone can. Diet and exercise guru Monica Grenfell gives readers the real skinny on why their stomachs are bulging. From bloating to poor posture, she identifies the most common reasons for less-than-perfect tummies and then offers solutions in this easy-to-follow program, giving readers the low-down on which foods to eat and when, along with exercises to tone the stomach. With photographs of the exercises, along with a 5-day menu plan that includes recipes, this is a fail-safe program that will give readers the real results they want--a flatter stomach in just five days!.
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The 7-Minute Miracle: The Breakthrough Program to Banish Spot Fat Forever
Sheldon Levine, M.D. shows how it's entirely possible (and easy) to shrink our tough luck areas--our hips and thighs, our bellies and butts. Based on landmark research Levine's program allows you to spot reduce your fat so you can target exactly the areas that bother you most..
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The Migraine Cure: How to Forever Banish the Curse of Migraines (Lynn Sonberg Books)
Are You Ready to Get Your Life Back--And Be Permanently Free From the Crippling Pain of Migraines? How to Forever Banish the Curse of Migraines--Using a Totally Effective, Safe, Clinically-Proven Yet Drug-Free Medical Breakthrough No more potentially destructive (and expensive) drugs! The Migraine Cure is all natural and releases you from the tyranny of powerful medications--forever. No need to change your diet! The Migraine Cure requires no dietary changes or restrictions to be 100% effective. No lifestyle changes! The Migraine Cure is not dependent on exercise, environment or climatic changes to guarantee success. No more guesswork, futility and frustration! The Migraine Cure identifies and delivers exactly what YOU PERSONALLY need in order to be permanently migraine-free. "Never did I imagine I would find a cure for migraine, a debilitating disease which, according to the National Headache Foundation, affects approximately 28 million Americans... But I did. Until now, migraine has appeared to be impossible to cure. But it's not impossible any more."--from the introduction by Sergey Dzugan, MD, PhD While Dr. Dzugan and Dr. R. Arnold Smith were working with cancer patients at the North Central Mississippi Regional Cancer Center they made a startling discovery... When cancer patients were treated with immunorestoration--a treatment that includes the use of hormones to help boost the immune system--patients who had once suffered with migraines reported that suddenly they were migraine-free. Why were these patients suddenly free of migraine and its many related symptoms, including fatigue, insomnia, depression, and constipation? Could restoration of specific, foundational hormones be the basis of a migraine cure? From this discovery, Dr. Dzugan developed the Migraine Cure treatment protocol out of a long-term clinical study in which all the patients--100 percent--got complete relief from migraine pain and related symptoms, including individuals who had difficult-to-treat migraine that had plagued them for more than thirty years. Since that study, Dr. Dzugan has repeatedly gotten the same results with hundreds of men, women, and adolescents in the United States and from around the world, whether they have been suffering with episodes of migraine pain for a few months or for decades. If they can find relief, you and your loved ones can find it as well. In The Migraine Cure, Dr. Dzugan shares with you some of his patients' success stories and how they achieved that success. More importantly, he explains how you can realize that success as well. The Migraine Cure treatment program is soundly based in science, it is amazing, and it is effective. It is also natural, readily available, noninvasive, and fine-tuned for each individual to fit his or her unique needs. In The Migraine Cure, you will learn about how the program works, why it works, and, most important, how you can take the steps necessary to make it work for you--all without the use of expensive therapies or traditional drugs and the side effects associated with them. Most people who carefully follow the recommendations of the Migraine Cure are migraine-free in as little as one week. .
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Banish Mind Spam! Four Steps For Deprogramming Self-Limiting and Self-Sabotaging Beliefs
In "Banish Mind Spam!" Dr. Sheri Rosenthal explains how our minds are programmed from birth through the domestication and socialization process. She sees the internal dialogue of the mind, that voice that is constantly chatting in our heads, as "spam." It tells us things that are not necessarily truth, and in fact are often self-limiting and self-sabotaging in nature, crowding out the important messages from our heart, integrity and Spirit. "Banish Mind Spam!" sets out a clear avenue to explore the structure of your mind and personal programming, and then lays out steps for obtaining your personal freedom and emotional peace. In "Banish Mind Spam!" you will learn: 1-How to take inventory of the totality of your mind's program and all the beliefs and "spam" contained within its files 2-How to quarantine and sequester all infecting viruses and isolate the files they have corrupted. 3-How to heal the damage caused by viruses in your program so it can function and run in a healthy way. 4-How to add files that are specifically designed to create and support love and happiness and optimize the efficiency and speed of the program. This book is a must-have for anyone searching for the definitive "manual" on cleaning up their programming and surrendering to a life of happiness..
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