Doing What Works

Martin Lean Six SIGMA For Supply Chain Management, James William

ISBN 10: 1456747029 / ISBN 13: 9781456747022

Published by Authorhouse, 2011

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Print on Demand pp. 188.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Doing What Works
• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1456747029
• ISBN 13: 9781456747022
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book provides a useful framework from which to organize a person's life activities to enable them to lead a more satisfying and successful life.
 
Uses templates, to enable a reader to create a highly personalized improvement plan and integrates personal needs and values with their goals using new tools such a value matrix, personal benefit map, a balanced scorecard and personal hierarchy pyramid.

• It is highly visual and easy to understand and provides a logical road-map for achieving personal goals. This road-map can be modified as a person's needs change.
• Encourages a reader to immediately begin practicing the key concepts which are presented one by one at the end of each of the book's ten chapters.
• Presents effective shortcuts for achieving goals to save a person time and money by preventing false starts.
• Provides a flexible approach to personal goal setting which enables a reader to incorporate specific recommendations from councilors and professionals into their improvement plan.
• Helps a person to more effectively resolve personal conflicts with others.
• Helps a person balance their goals to avoid becoming overloaded and frustrated.
• It provides a useful framework from which to organize life's activities to enable a reader to lead a more satisfying and successful life.

About the Author

James William Martin is an organizational coach and president of a management consulting firm, located south of Boston. He is also the author of several books focused on change management, teamwork and process improvement. He has coached and counseled thousands of people across Japan, China, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, and North America to use fact based methods to achieve their goals and improve their lives.  As a management consultant and teacher for more than twenty years, he has also served as an instructor at the Providence's College Graduate School of Business since 1988 where he instructs courses in decision analysis and related courses, and counsels graduate students from government organizations and leading corporations in the greater Boston area. His interests include environmental friendly design as well as personal and organizational ethics, productivity and change management. He holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University; Master of Business Administration Providence College; and Bachelor of Science degrees in Industrial Engineering, and Biology from the University of Rhode Island.