"This book is based on a simple, obvious point: leadership roles should be filled by people who deliberately decide they want to be in them." "Discovering the Leader in You offers a planful approach to understanding how aspects of personality, character, vision, home life, values, and skills match with essential leadership activities. This unique system of self-discovery clearly shows what it l…
A practical, straightforward guide to Six Sigma for employees in organizations contemplating or implementing Six Sigma From noted Six Sigma consultant and author George Eckes, Six Sigma for Everyone explains the underpinnings of the revolutionary quality assurance methodology, offers in-depth examples, and outlines the impact and desired end result of implementation. Whereas, most Six Sigma boo…
"Comprises nearly eighty letters from those who have done so much to motivate and shape our world today -- from Muhammad Ali to four U.S. presidents [Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush], Mikhail Gorbachev, King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, King Abdullah II of Jordan, and the Dalai Lama; from Cathie Black to T. Boone Pickens, Muriel Siebert, and Donald Trump. The l…
Presents the fundamental processes of project management that drive the design and implementation of business changes for any organization -- local, regional or global, updated to reflect the most current industry knowledge and practices
In the sciences of operations research and decision theory, the study of multicriteria decision--aid has seen considerable development in the last ten years. The author provides a concise and rigorous presentation of the concepts and procedures of this method.
Integrating expert-system technology with decision-support technology, this study incorporates the progress made in knowledge-based DSS and related fields, and illustrates these advances with applications and cases in finance and management.
Problems with high stakes, involving human perceptions and judgements, and whose resolutions have long-term repercussions, call for a rational approach to their solution. Strategic Decision Making provides an effective, formal methodology that gives assistance to such strategic level decision making problems. Focusing on applying the AHP to decision-making problems in engineering, Strategic Dec…