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Paperback. Condition: Good. Lean principles have been used for years in the manufacturing world, and have started to make an impact in the office as well. These tools can provide the foundation to building a systematic approach to improving your HR practice and lowering costs. In this book, practitioners will be guided through an overview of the basics of Lean, how to use the most common tools, and how to then leverage them to bring an element of process excellence to their HR department. With a few simple templates, some common sense, and a willingness to question the current state, great strides can be made in reducing costs and improving effectiveness in HR departments of any size Includes a simple overview of Lean philosophy and its evolution, an assortment of easy to use tools to help you find and analyze improvement projects, and a structured approach to reducing waste in your practice. Dwane Lay practices what he preaches. Lean HR is a lean book. It's chock fill of the wisdom of the trenches while guiding the reader to the most important tools and concepts. This is a field manual for optimizing the processes and outputs of your HR shop. Think of it as a guide for HR people who want to continue to work in the field. - John Sumser, Founder HR Examiner and HRx Analysts @johnsumser What if you could get rid of the processes and procedures that waste your time and make your job harder? What if you could think about the way you work in a new way, a way that makes you better and more effective at what you do? What if all this even saved time, resources, and money? And what if there were even elephant jokes? Dwane Lay's experience, sensibility and great sense of humor show you how to start and how to get there. - Heather Bussing, employment attorney @heatherbussing One thing HR isn't great at is taking the BS out of any process. HR people are famous for adding structure and process to just about anything, with the rationalization that it makes the target more fair or easier to use. That's where Dwane Lay comes in. A classically trained Six Sigma ninja, Dwane turns lean concepts into easy to understand tools to help HR pros get to what's real - and what people will actually use. Highly recommended - Kris Dunn. Chief Human Resources Officer, Kinetix. Founder of blogs - The HR Capitalist and Fistful of Talent. @kris_dunn Dwane is the Lean HR guy. Period. If you've heard him speak at a conference you know this. If you haven't, trust me. Dwane knows process improvement and HR. When I'm a CEO again, Dwane will be my COO. - China Gorman, CEO CMG Group @chinagorman Hunter S. Thompson, Bob Guccione, Andy Warhol and Dwane Lay were having lunch one day at a local diner. Dwane was regaling the group with his most recent transatlantic exploits when the subject of this book came up. He told them what I'll tell you. Two words. life changing. That's all folks. buy it, read it, live it, share it. Do yourself and humanity a favor. By the way, Bob picked up the check that morning. He's that guy. - William Tincup, SPHR, CEO, Tincup & Co. @williamtincup. …

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Hardback. Condition: Good. Travel through time with Luis, Casey, Tyler, and robot cat Steel Using Tesla's Time Twister, the friends find themselves in ancient Egypt. There, they face an ancient curse, while trying to rescue Uncle Cyrus, who remains stuck in time Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Calico is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO. Bardin, Dave (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: Good. TOPGUN on Wall Street>chronicles one man's extraordinary journey from the cornfields of Ohio, to the cockpit of an F-14, to the boardrooms on Wall Street. Lieutenant Commander Jeffery Lay and #1>New York Times bestselling author Patrick Robinson bring a provocative, ground-breaking voice to the business landscape with a revolutionary answer for stabilizing corporate America: business--the military way.As a TOPGUN fighter pilot, Lieutenant Commander Lay perfected a tried-and-true military technique: PLAN -BRIEF - EXECUTE -DEBRIEFHowever, when he retired from active duty in 2006 and went to work for a subsidiary of the ill-fated Lehman Brothers, he noticed that everything about the business world was different: less efficient, awash with excuses for failure, allowance of men with tricky morals to rise to the top, self-gain overshadowing teamwork, and a devastating lack of accountability.With such deeply rooted flaws, is corporate America doomed for perpetual failure?Answer: Not if we put admirals in charge and adopt the military's tight chain of command.This game-changing thesis is interwoven with Lieutenant Commander Lay's dramatic story, including his high-intensity strike fighter aircraft landings, never-before-written details of the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN), and his heart-breaking, humbling, and inspirational battle with cancer at the peak of his military career.TOPGUN on Wall Street is written by a leader determined to show the business world that excellence is a choice and perfection is attainable. …

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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. IT WAS TWO HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE COLUMBUS. THE SPIRITS OF NATURE WALKED THE EARTH. And the people of the American Southwest lived in intimate harmony with the land, the sky, and the seasons. Here the beautiful, blue eyed Kwani, gifted with magical vision, and Tolonqua, Hunting Chief of the Towa, joined in a passion that defied all taboos. Here Tolonqua fought to build a great fortress city to protect his clan against the dread Pawnee and other foes. Here Kwani battled suspicion and envy to preserve her place as She Who Remembers, and pass on her powers to a daughter marked at birth for an awesome destiny. Here Kwani's son risked death for honor and for love. Here, in a novel of unsurpassed vividness and narrative sweep, a vanished world comes to unforgettable life. …

Hardback. Condition: Fair. IT WAS TWO HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE COLUMBUS. THE SPIRITS OF NATURE WALKED THE EARTH. And the people of the American Southwest lived in intimate harmony with the land, the sky, and the seasons. Here the beautiful, blue eyed Kwani, gifted with magical vision, and Tolonqua, Hunting Chief of the Towa, joined in a passion that defied all taboos. Here Tolonqua fought to build a great fortress city to protect his clan against the dread Pawnee and other foes. Here Kwani battled suspicion and envy to preserve her place as She Who Remembers, and pass on her powers to a daughter marked at birth for an awesome destiny. Here Kwani's son risked death for honor and for love. Here, in a novel of unsurpassed vividness and narrative sweep, a vanished world comes to unforgettable life. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. Ignite Your Genius The world around us can be a catalyst for creative inspiration anytime, anywhere, if we know how to see it that way. Learn to connect with your own genius more deeply and shift into new ways of seeing, and fold this ability to wonder and engage curiosity into your everyday life. Eliza Lay Ryan teaches us how to cultivate supermindfulness, giving us greater access to the ability to be both present to our own experience, and open to new ways of thinking, feeling, and being so we can: - Respond dynamically and authentically to life - Shift our perspective - Access our wholeness more fully - Connect with each other more wholly.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. IT WAS TWO HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE COLUMBUS. THE SPIRITS OF NATURE WALKED THE EARTH. And the people of the American Southwest lived in intimate harmony with the land, the sky, and the seasons. Here the beautiful, blue eyed Kwani, gifted with magical vision, and Tolonqua, Hunting Chief of the Towa, joined in a passion that defied all taboos. Here Tolonqua fought to build a great fortress city to protect his clan against the dread Pawnee and other foes. Here Kwani battled suspicion and envy to preserve her place as She Who Remembers, and pass on her powers to a daughter marked at birth for an awesome destiny. Here Kwani's son risked death for honor and for love. Here, in a novel of unsurpassed vividness and narrative sweep, a vanished world comes to unforgettable life. …

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Condition: Fair. Set in pre-historic America, this novel follows the fortunes of the Anasazi Indian tribe. The blue-eyed Kwani, whose special powers mark her out, is travelling through hostile territory with her mate and newborn son.

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