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In his latest offering, John Davis tackles the "human" side of a
lean initiative -- cultivating a lean culture and gaining employee
buy-in. How managers deal with these issues will ultimately
determine their success. Leading the Lean Initiative: Straight Talk
on Cultivating Support and Buy-in shows you how to lead a lean
effort and effectively manage change. It is a practical manual for
the new manager. Though directed at plant managers, and
specifically those new to their jobs, this book benefits anyone
taking on a leadership role. Davis provides complete direction on
the crucial first steps and advise on competently responding to the
"unknown and unexpected." In addition the book covers how to: Gain
the respect and active support of the workforce. Work effectively
with unions and customers. Create a culture for change. Actively
seek out key people in your organization. Diplomatically buck the
system. Extend lean to the entire enterprise. Develop and
effectively earmark your plan for operation. Cultivate a winning
relationship with your boss. Deal with major setbacks in business
conditions.Throughout the text, Davis weaves the story of Jim
Warring, a plant manager who is new to the job, detailing his
frustrations, challenges, and accomplishments, and how he handles
the daily responsibilities of a plant manager. At the end of each
chapter, Davis rates Warring on how he performed in his role as
plant manager and as a leader of the plant's lean initiative by
presenting "The Warring Scorecard." Davis points out where he
succeeded, and where he made some serious mistakes. Leading the
Lean Initiative: Straight Talk on Cultivating Support and Buy-in,
is a valuable resource or all managers in any industry. This book
will show you how to effectively lead in your organization and how
to cultivate a cooperative environment.
This new edition of a well-established textbook covers the
environmental and engineering aspects of the management of
rainwater and wastewater in areas of human development. Urban
Drainage deals comprehensively not only with the design of new
systems, but also the analysis and upgrading of existing
infrastructure. Keeping its balance of principles, practice and
research, this new edition has significant new material on
modelling, resilience, smart systems, and the global and local
context. The two new authors bring further research and
practice-based experience. This is an essential text for
undergraduate and graduate students, lecturers and researchers in
water engineering, environmental engineering, public health
engineering, engineering hydrology, and related non-engineering
disciplines. It also serves as a dependable reference for drainage
engineers in water service providers, local authorities, and for
consulting engineers. Extensive examples are used to support and
demonstrate the key issues throughout the text.
Not long ago, a colleague chided me for using the term "the
biological revolution. " Like many others, I have employed it as an
umbrella term to refer to the seemingly vast, rapidly-moving, and
fre quently bewildering developments of contemporary biomedicine:
psy chosurgery, genetic counseling and engineering, artificial
heart-lung machines, organ transplants-and on and on. The real
"biological revo lution," he pointed out, began back in the
nineteenth century in Europe. For it was then that death rates and
infant mortality began to decline, the germ theory of disease was
firmly established, Darwin took his famous trip on the Beagle, and
Gregor Mendel stumbled on to some fundamental principles of
heredity. My friend, I think, was both right and wrong. The
biological revolution did have its roots in the nineteenth century;
that is when it first began to unfold. Yet, like many intellectual
and scientific upheav als, its force was not felt for decades.
Indeed, it seems fair to say that it was not until after the Second
World War that the full force of the earlier discoveries in biology
and medicine began to have a major impact, an impact that was all
the more heightened by the rapid bi omedical developments after the
war."
For weeks in 1902 it commanded headlines. All of Wyoming and much
of the West followed the trial of Tom Horn for the murder of a
fourteen-year-old boy. John W. Davis's book, the only full-length
account of the trial, places it in perspective as part of a larger
struggle for control of Wyoming's grazing land. Davis also portrays
an enigmatic defendant who, more than a century after his
conviction and hanging, perplexes us still. Tom Horn was one of the
most fascinating figures in the history of the West. Employed as a
Pinkerton and then as a range detective, he had a reputation as a
loner and a braggart with a brutal approach to law enforcement even
before he was accused of murdering young Willie Nickell. Cattlemen
saw Horn as protecting their way of life, but most people in
Wyoming saw him as a hired assassin, an instrument of oppression by
cattle barons willing to use violent intimidation to protect their
assets. The story began on July 18, 1901, when Willie Nickell was
shot by a gunman lying in ambush; the killer was apparently after
Willie's father, who had brought sheep into the area. Six months
later Tom Horn was arrested. The trial pitted the Laramie County
district attorney against a crack team of defense lawyers hired by
big cattlemen. Against all predictions, the jury found Horn guilty
of first-degree murder. Despite appeals that went all the way to
the state supreme court and the governor, Horn was hanged in
Cheyenne in 1903. The trial and conviction of Tom Horn marked a
major milestone in the hard-fought battle against vigilantism in
Wyoming. Davis, himself a trial lawyer, has mined court documents
and newspaper articles to dissect the trial strategies of the
participating attorneys. His detailed account illuminates a larger
narrative of conflict between the power of wealth and the forces of
law and order in the West.
This book addresses how to make Kaizen a formidable competitive
weapon. It serves as reinforcement for the key role the Lean
coordinator holds in training and leading change that serves to
make and keep a manufacturing firm world competitive.
Not long ago, a colleague chided me for using the term "the
biological revolution. " Like many others, I have employed it as an
umbrella term to refer to the seemingly vast, rapidly-moving, and
fre quently bewildering developments of contemporary biomedicine:
psy chosurgery, genetic counseling and engineering, artificial
heart-lung machines, organ transplants-and on and on. The real
"biological revo lution," he pointed out, began back in the
nineteenth century in Europe. For it was then that death rates and
infant mortality began to decline, the germ theory of disease was
firmly established, Darwin took his famous trip on the Beagle, and
Gregor Mendel stumbled on to some fundamental principles of
heredity. My friend, I think, was both right and wrong. The
biological revolution did have its roots in the nineteenth century;
that is when it first began to unfold. Yet, like many intellectual
and scientific upheav als, its force was not felt for decades.
Indeed, it seems fair to say that it was not until after the Second
World War that the full force of the earlier discoveries in biology
and medicine began to have a major impact, an impact that was all
the more heightened by the rapid bi omedical developments after the
war."
This new edition of a well-established textbook covers the
environmental and engineering aspects of the management of
rainwater and wastewater in areas of human development. Urban
Drainage deals comprehensively not only with the design of new
systems, but also the analysis and upgrading of existing
infrastructure. Keeping its balance of principles, practice and
research, this new edition has significant new material on
modelling, resilience, smart systems, and the global and local
context. The two new authors bring further research and
practice-based experience. This is an essential text for
undergraduate and graduate students, lecturers and researchers in
water engineering, environmental engineering, public health
engineering, engineering hydrology, and related non-engineering
disciplines. It also serves as a dependable reference for drainage
engineers in water service providers, local authorities, and for
consulting engineers. Extensive examples are used to support and
demonstrate the key issues throughout the text.
Designed to teach the reader how to fully exploit Kaizen events,
this book explains the four distinct types of Kaizen and that each
has its own particular purpose. The book points out why and how
Kaizen should be used as a prominent strategy in implementing Lean.
This includes developing a structured plan for Kaizen and giving
strong consideration to the insertion of a "Waste Reduction
Activity Process" (WRAP), which provides employee incentives for
implemented improvements at an individual job level. It outlines
how to conduct each type of Kaizen event, who to involve, and what
the results should be.
In late March 1909, five sheepmen headed east from the town of
Worland, in north-central Wyoming, driving five thousand sheep. A
few days later the men and their sheep camped on the banks of
Spring Creek, where they thought they had brought the herd to safe
grazing. That evening, however, seven cowboys raided the camp and
brutally murdered three of the sheepmen. In "A Vast Amount of
Trouble," John W. Davis recounts the events leading up to this
crime, the gripping trial that followed, and the trial's aftermath,
which was no less than to bring an end to Wyoming's violent range
wars.
Additional Contributors Are Floyd E. Thompson, Henry A. Uterhart,
Joseph DuVivier, And Many Others. Foreword By Samuel Williston.
Full Title: "United States of America, Appellant, v. The Chemical
Foundation, Incorporated, Appellee"Description: "The Making of the
Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926" collection provides descriptions of
the major trials from over 300 years, with official trial
documents, unofficially published accounts of the trials, briefs
and arguments and more. Readers can delve into sensational trials
as well as those precedent-setting trials associated with key
constitutional and historical issues and discover, including the
Amistad Slavery case, the Dred Scott case and Scopes "monkey"
trial."Trials" provides unfiltered narrative into the lives of the
trial participants as well as everyday people, providing an
unparalleled source for the historical study of sex, gender, class,
marriage and divorce.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++512Court Record1925Harvard Law School
Libraryc.1926
A Way Of Escape From War, By Fosdick; The World Court Settles The
Question, By Davis.
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have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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