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2019.
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"Tiffany Shlain explores how turning off screens one day a week can work wonders on your brain, body, and soul." -- from book jacket flap.
Shlain explores how turning off screens one day a week can work wonders on your brain, body, and soul. Turning off all screens for twenty-four hours each week-- which she's done for nearly a decade with her husband and kids is giving them more time, productivity, connection, and presence. Drawing on the ancient...
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©2013.
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This book includes eight important lessons focusing on 99 principles that will quickly and memorably enhance any individual's money management acumen. Unlike many of the personal money management books out there, this book is a quick, easily digested read that focuses more on the qualitative side than the quantitative side of personal money management. The principles are not from a textbook. Rather, they are practical principles learned by the author...
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John C. Maxwell, el experto en liderazgo, conferenciante y autor internacionalmente reconocido, ha tomado este éxito de ventas de un millón de ejemplares y lo ha hecho aún mejor.
Si nunca ha leído Las 21 leyes irrefutables del liderazgo, se ha perdido uno de los libros de liderazgo más vendidos de todos los tiempos. Si ha leído la versión original, le encantará esta nueva versión ampliada y actualizada.
Esta edición revisada se mantiene...
86) Why Quality is Important and How It Applies in Diverse Business and Social Environments, Volume II
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These two volumes are about understanding-why-and application-how-with the aim of providing guidance and introduction to both.
Quality is the consistent achievement of the user's expectations of a product or service. The achievement needs to be "The right thing, right first time, every time, in time." Beginning with manufacturing and services, it also includes professional, personal, and spiritual dimensions.
Variation does not sit happily with consistency...
87) Why Quality is Important and How It Applies in Diverse Business and Social Environments, Volume I
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These two volumes are about understanding-why-and application-how-with the aim of providing guidance and introduction to both.
Quality is the consistent achievement of the user's expectations of a product or service. The achievement needs to be "The right thing, right first time, every time, in time." Beginning with manufacturing and services, it also includes professional, personal, and spiritual dimensions.
Variation does not sit happily with consistency...
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Automating Software Tests Using Selenium is a practical manual aimed at all professionals and companies in the systems area and who aim to improve the quality of their services and / or products in a simple, efficient and low cost. In this book you will find the features that the Selenium tool provides to implement a robust automated testing environment, such as: writing / executing test scripts, exporting / importing test scripts into a test project,...
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Automatización de tests de software El uso de Selenium es un manual práctico dirigido a todos los profesionales y empresas en el área de sistemas y que buscan mejorar la calidad de sus servicios y / o productos de forma sencilla, eficiente y de bajo costo. En este libro encontrará las características que proporciona la herramienta Selenium para implementar un sólido entorno de test automatizado, como: escribir / ejecutar scripts de test, exportar...
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This is a book about practicing, learning, and sharing our experiences with the Lean methodology and the Toyota Production System.
Doctors don't "implement medicine," they practice medicine.
Lawyers don't "implement cases," they practice law.
Shouldn't Lean facilitators, consultants, managers, and the like, also "practice Lean?"
When most of us start with Lean, the practices and principles are new. We might struggle to make change happen....
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Service organizations and offices worldwide are beginning to realize that only those companies that are efficient and able to meet the changing needs of customers will survive the fierce competition of the marketplace. Adopting lean puts anyone in a position more likely to build an intimate relationship with customers and build a foundation of operational excellence. Lean as a philosophy is new to the service companies, and many of them struggle to...
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[2021]
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"From award-winning ProPublica reporter Marshall Allen, a primer for anyone who wants to fight the predatory health care system--and win. Every year, millions of Americans are overcharged and underserved while the health care industry makes record profits. We know something is wrong, but the layers of bureaucracy designed to discourage complaints make pushing back seem impossible. At least, this is what the health care power players want you to think....
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"With the longest healthy life spans in the world, Japanese people understand the art of living well. This beautiful book distills traditional Japanese philosophies intrinsic to wellbeing, providing easy-to-follow exercises to inspire those who want to live a happier, more balanced life. With sections on kokoro (heart and mind) and karada (body), plus a guide on how to form and nurture good habits, the book includes entries on ikigai (living with...
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2020.
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English
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"What if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That's the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator. In this gripping, intimate memoir about health, illness, and the invisible reverberating effects of our medical system, Standefer recounts the astonishing true story of the rare diagnosis that upended her rugged life in the mountains...
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Our toxic thoughts, depression and anxiety are frequently aggravated by our chaotic world, and they are sustained by an inability to manage our thought life. The author provides a 5-step, 63-day plan, the Neurocycle, to find and eliminate the root of anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts in your life so you can experience dramatically improved mental and physical health.
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Six Sigma is a collection of ideas and tools that many organizations are using as part of their efforts to improve the quality of their products and services. Six Sigma for Project Managers explores the concepts that project managers need to know to make six sigma work for their organizations.
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A comprehensive guide for Quality Management Principles Quality Management Systems (QMS) is a globally recognized standard to manage systems, processes, and resources, effectively and efficiently. Incorporating the Seven Principles of Quality Management is essential to drive the leadership, culture, and achieve business excellence. This book draws bodies of knowledge of management methodologies, principles, business models, frameworks, and case studies...
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Measure and improve your company's performance
This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding and implementing benchmarking, providing you with the essential information and saving time.
In 50 minutes you will be able to:
• Understand the different types of benchmarking and choose the best one for your company
• Catch up with the competition by comparing their processes to your own and identifying the best practices
• Use...
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