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Partners 4 Life

The Importance of Partners in Surviving an Organ Transplant

By: Jim Uhrig

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Partners 4 Life

The Importance of Partners in Surviving an Organ Transplant

By: Jim Uhrig

Early in 2008, doing ordinary, mundane things like tying his shoes and walking up steps literally took author Jim Uhrigs breath away. He had trouble breathing, and it seemed as though he could never catch his breath. That was the beginning of a long journey for Uhrig, who shares his story in Partners 4 Life. In this memoir, he narrates the path his life took after being diagnosed with the incurable idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and undergoing a subsequent lung transplant in April of 2009. Uhrig not only discusses his diagnosis and treatment, but also places special emphasis on the partnersfrom his personal life, his business, and his sports activitieswho provided him with inspiration and help and played an integral role in his survival. He includes his partners in medicine, the donor and her family, caregivers, and special angels. Uhrigs story relates how he tackled his lung disease and transplant with the same fervor he lived life. Partners 4 Life communicates the saving grace of an organ transplant as well as the power of positive thinking.

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149172854X

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A Financial Tale of Two Cities

Sydney and Melbourne's Remarkable Contest for Commercial Supremacy

By: Jim Bain

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A Financial Tale of Two Cities

Sydney and Melbourne's Remarkable Contest for Commercial Supremacy

By: Jim Bain

Describes the intense commercial rivalry between Sydney and Melbourne over a period of 150 years. While Sydney was established nearly 50 years before Melbourne, the great wealth generated by the Victorian goldfields soon gave Melbourne an unassailable position as the continent's richest center of commerce. The story of this contest for commercial supremacy is based on Jim Bain's own long experience in the Australian financial-services industry, and particularly his exposure to the competition and fierce rivalry that existed between the leading Melbourne- and Sydney-based banks, merchant banks, fund managers and stockbrokers. Bain focuses on the roles played by several financial institutions--and key personalities--over many decades.

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UNSW Press

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0868409634

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IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance Handbook

By: Bill Hines,John Rasmussen,Jaime Ryan,Simon Kapadia,Jim Brennan

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IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance Handbook

By: Bill Hines,John Rasmussen,Jaime Ryan,Simon Kapadia,Jim Brennan

Expert Guide to Deploying, Using, and Managing DataPower SOA Appliances IBM® WebSphere® DataPower® appliances can simplify SOA deployment, strengthen SOA security, enhance SOA performance, and dramatically improve SOA return on investment. In this book, a team of IBM’s leading experts show how to make the most of DataPower SOA appliances in any IT environment. The authors present IBM DataPower information and insights that are available nowhere else. Writing for working architects, administrators, and security specialists, they draw extensively on their deep experience helping IBM customers use DataPower technologies to solve challenging system integration problems. IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance Handbook begins by introducing the rationale for SOA appliances and explaining how DataPower appliances work from network, security, and Enterprise Service Bus perspectives. Next, the authors walk through DataPower installation and configuration; then they present deep detail on DataPower’s role and use as a network device. Using many real-world examples, the authors systematically introduce the services available on DataPower devices, especially the “big three”: XML Firewall, Web Service Proxy, and Multi-Protocol Gateway. They also present thorough and practical guidance on day-to-day DataPower management, including, monitoring, configuration build and deploy techniques. Coverage includes • Configuring DataPower’s network interfaces for common scenarios • Implementing DataPower deployment patterns for security gateway, ESB, and Web service management applications • Proxying Web applications with DataPower • Systematically addressing the security vulnerabilities associated with Web services and XML • Integrating security with WebSphere Application Server • Mastering DataPower XSLT custom programming • Troubleshooting using both built-in and external tools

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Pearson Education

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0137003323

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9780137003327

Jim Champy on What's Really Working in Business (Collection)

By: Jim Champy

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Jim Champy on What's Really Working in Business (Collection)

By: Jim Champy

What it takes to win, big, now! Jim Champy brings together breakthrough approaches to strategy, marketing, and execution! Jim Champy revolutionized business with Reengineering the Corporation. Now, in these three concise, fast-paced books, he’s done it again — revealing today’s most innovative strategies for breakthrough business success. Deliver!: How to Be Fast, Flawless, and Frugal shows how to leverage the rich treasure of potential competitive advantage hidden in your operations. Through five case studies, he presents organizations performing at “impossible” levels — thanks not to strategy, but to goals, discipline, details, and gritty, everyday execution. Next, in Outsmart!: How to Do What Your Competitors Can't, Champy reveals the winning strategies of “high velocity” companies, identifying eight powerful ways to compete in even the most brutal marketplace. You’ll discover how to find distinctive market positions and sustainable advantages in products, services, delivery methods, and niches nobody else ever considered. Finally, in Inspire!: Why Customers Come Back, Champy shows how to define a consistent value proposition your customers will be passionate about–and will stay passionate about. You’ll learn how to engage a new generation of customers who value transparency and authenticity above all, and transcend mere “marketing” to lead crusades customers want to join.

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FT Press

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0132938618

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9780132938617

The Truth about Identity Theft

By: Jim Stickley

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The Truth about Identity Theft

By: Jim Stickley

Examines the techniques used to steal personal information, discussing such methods as using Internet files, email, ATM scams, credit card offers, telephone solicitation, burglary, and trash scanning, and outlining what the average person can do to minimize the risk of identity theft.

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0789737930

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Inspire!

Why Customers Come Back

By: Jim Champy

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Inspire!

Why Customers Come Back

By: Jim Champy

8 POWERFUL WAYS TO INSPIRE TODAY’S TOUGH CUSTOMERS IN TOUGH TIMES AND MAKE THEM STICK! “With Jim Champy’s well-proven gift for keen management analysis, today’s essential notions of business transparency, channel and customer alignment, and enduring cultural values become palpable, memorable, and—most important—usable.” Alan Spoon, Managing General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners “If you love the game of business, you’d be hard pressed to find a book with more ‘good moves’ per page than INSPIRE!” Paal Gisholt, President and CEO, SmartPak “Full of insightful ideas, this book is for those who like winning, who embrace innovation, and who wish to transform how they lead. It is not for the defenders of the status quo.” Michael Dowling, President and CEO, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System “INSPIRE! provides ‘food for thought’ and insightful guidance for all companies. This is particularly important in today’s economy where even established companies are looking for ways to maintain the growth they have enjoyed in better times.” Chiquita White, Section Head, Product Development, Procter & Gamble Jim Champy revolutionized business with Reengineering the Corporation. Now, in Inspire!, the second book in a series about what’s new and really works in business, he takes on the challenge of inspiring customers–even in tough times. In an era of commoditization and ever less loyal customers, this book shows how to keep customers coming back. Drawing on dozens of original case studies from companies in a variety of industries, new and old, Champy reveals how to define a consistent value proposition your customers will be passionate about–and will stay passionate about. You’ll learn how to engage a new generation of customers who value transparency and authenticity above all...how to reinvigorate your company in the face of brutally tough and creative competition...how to go beyond mere marketing campaigns to lead crusades customers want to join. Once again, Jim Champy has given businesses actionable solutions to one of the most challenging problems they currently face: making customers stick. How to reignite customer loyalty by… • Bringing authenticity to everything you do • Creating new products that reflect the best of what you really are • Delivering new value based on convenience, simplicity, and honesty • Nurturing your mystique • Choosing the right channel partners • Doing well by doing good Want more? Check out the e-book collection, Jim Champy on What's Really Working in Business. This brand new collection contains state-of-the-art business insights from world-renowned expert Jim Champy…now in a convenient e-format, at a great price!

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Pearson Education

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0137016808

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Deliver!

How to Be Fast, Flawless, and Frugal

By: Jim Champy

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Deliver!

How to Be Fast, Flawless, and Frugal

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Jim Champy revolutionized business with Reengineering the Corporation. Now, in Deliver!, the third book in a series about what's new and really works in business, he shows how to leverage the rich treasure of potential competitive advantage that's hiding in plain view: your operations. Deliver! presents five original, chapter-length case studies of organizations performing at levels that were once viewed as impossible. They range from Campbell's Soup to the US Navy. Their offerings range from industrial tools to premium California wine. What do they share in common? Their success hasn't been grounded in breakthrough strategy: it's built on goals, discipline, details… the grittiness of everyday execution. In an era of highly constrained resources, these organizations offer you the most realistic path to sustainable success: Increase operational efficiency. Drive real savings. And use those savings not merely to maintain your competitive position, but to drive it forward. Want more? Check out the e-book collection, Jim Champy on What's Really Working in Business. This brand new collection contains state-of-the-art business insights from world-renowned expert Jim Champy…now in a convenient e-format, at a great price!

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FT Press

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013231763X

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Crapshoot Investing

By: Jim McTague

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Crapshoot Investing

By: Jim McTague

In just the past few years, the equity markets have been transformed into a high-speed casino that’s a pure crapshoot: a white-knuckle rollercoaster ride that has left individual investors legitimately terrified of equities. The Flash Crash of May 6, 2010–when the DJIA plummeted 734 points in 17 minutes, and dozens of top companies traded as low as zero–was just a harbinger of disasters to come. In Crap Shoot Investing, Barron’s Washington Editor Jim McTague reveals the twin causes of this massive transformation: high-frequency traders using mathematical hocus pocus, and blundering regulators whose attempts to promote long-term investment have massively backfired. McTague takes you through the Flash Crash moment by moment, revealing what happened and how it happened. Next, he burrows “under the volcano” to uncover the titanic, uncontrolled forces now at work in equity markets, showing investors exactly what they’re jumping into when they buy and sell stock today. You’ll learn how new exchanges, desperate for cash, are attracting high-frequency traders at everyone else’s expense... how “dark pools” of hidden trades are tilting the playing field...how even small investors are promoting dangerous volatility. McTague explains why regulators continue to ignore the big picture as the markets accelerate towards chaos. Last but not least, he presents a rational strategy for investors who need to get ahead in markets that have become riskier than most casinos. "A valuable read for anyone considering investing in equity markets." Reprinted with permission from CHOICE http://www.cro2.org, copyright by the American Library Association.

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013260972X

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9780132609722

Practical Solutions for Healthcare Management and Policy (Collection)

By: Brett E. Trusko,Carolyn Pexton,Praveen K. Gupta,Jim Harrington,Douglas A. Perednia,Jim Champy,Harry Greenspun

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Practical Solutions for Healthcare Management and Policy (Collection)

By: Brett E. Trusko,Carolyn Pexton,Praveen K. Gupta,Jim Harrington,Douglas A. Perednia,Jim Champy,Harry Greenspun

A brand new collection of state-of-the-art insights into transforming healthcare, from world-renowned experts and practitioners… now in a convenient e-format, at a great price! Making American healthcare work: 3 new eBooks get past ideology to deliver real solutions! Even after Obamacare, America’s healthcare system is unsustainable and headed towards disaster. These three eBooks offer real solutions, not sterile ideology. In Overhauling America's Healthcare Machine: Stop the Bleeding and Save Trillions, leading healthcare expert and entrepreneur Douglas A. Perednia identifies the breathtaking complexity and specific inefficiencies that are driving the healthcare system towards collapse, and presents a new solution that protects patient and physician freedom, covers everyone, and won’t bankrupt America. Perednia shows how to design a far simpler system: one that delivers care to everyone by drawing on the best of both market efficiency and public "universality" — and is backed with detailed logic and objective calculations. Next, in Improving Healthcare Quality and Cost with Six Sigma, four leading experts introduce Six Sigma from the standpoint of the healthcare professional, showing exactly how to implement it successfully in real-world environments. The first 100% hands-on, start-to-finish blueprint for succeeding with Six Sigma in healthcare, this book covers every facet of Six Sigma in healthcare, demonstrating its use through examples and case studies from every area of the hospital: clinical, radiology, surgery, ICU, cardiovascular, laboratories, emergency, trauma, administrative services, staffing, billing, cafeteria, even central supply. Finally, in Reengineering Healthcare: A Manifesto for Radically Rethinking Healthcare Delivery JimChampy (“Reengineering the Corporation”) and Dr. Harry Greenspun show how reengineering methodologies can deliver breakthrough performance and efficiency improvements both within individual healthcare organizations and throughout the entire system, eliminating much of the 40%+ of U.S. healthcare costs now dedicated to administration. They demonstrate how reengineering can refocus investments on aligning quality and providing accessible care for millions more people. From world-renowned healthcare management experts Dr. Doug Perednia, Praveen Gupta, Brett E. Trusko, Carolyn Pexton, H. James Harrington, Jim Champy, and Harry Greenspun, M.D.

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0133115100

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9780133115109

Maya 5 Fundamentals

By: Garry Lewis,Jim Lammers

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Maya 5 Fundamentals

By: Garry Lewis,Jim Lammers

With the powerful 3D modeling program Maya 5, users are limited only by their own imagination. In these pages, veteran animator Jim Lammers (who brought life to the Sony/Tristar film "Starship Troopers") takes readers from a review of 3D fundamentals to full-blown Maya 5 content creation. A companion CD includes video-captured movies that walk readers through every tutorial in the book.

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New Riders

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0735713723

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9780735713727

Maya 4.5 Fundamentals

By: Jim Lammers,Lee Gooding

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Maya 4.5 Fundamentals

By: Jim Lammers,Lee Gooding

This guide to Maya 4.5 has been written by Maya beta testers and experienced trainers. It includes workflow and best practices for every user of this 3D graphics programme.

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0735713278

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9780735713277

Connecting Top Managers

Developing Executive Teams for Business Success

By: Jim Taylor,Lisa Haneberg

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Connecting Top Managers

Developing Executive Teams for Business Success

By: Jim Taylor,Lisa Haneberg

How do you go about improving leadership team performance, strengthening the connections between leaders, and strengthening the leadership team’s connections with the rest of the enterprise? This book tells you how. Leadership teams, working together, create the culture and set the tone for the entire organization. When leadership teams fail to connect with employees, their organizations fail. Expensive leadership meetings often accomplish nothing, and clashing leadership styles can disrupt the entire business. What do these issues have in common? Simply this: The way leaders work together is crucial, and enormous organization-wide performance improvements can be achieved when they work together more effectively. Readers will first learn how to define what leadership team excellence looks like, and clarify the organizational impact you want your leadership team to have. Next, they’ll learn how to systematically optimize the 5% of time your leaders spend working together–in person, electronically, and through subordinates. This book will help readers magnify their impact, whether they’re already at the top of the organization, or aspiring to a future leadership role.

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0132655926

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9780132655927

Outsmart!

How to Do What Your Competitors Can't

By: Jim Champy

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Outsmart!

How to Do What Your Competitors Can't

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“Champy’s engaging prose, fascinating success stories, penetrating reflections, and provocative challenges to the status quo capture your full attention from the first page to the last and leave your mind swirling with new thoughts about how to exploit opportunities in a very different world.” – Ray Stata, Founder and Chairman of the Board, Analog Devices, Inc. “To outsmart or be outsmarted, that is the question in modern business. Jim Champy has found the answer, in fact many answers, by looking inside amazingly successful companies. And he tells their simple stories in this book that is so delightfully short it can be read on one flight.” – Dr. Robert “Bob” Metcalfe, General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners “In this remarkably readable and incisive book, Jim Champy provides case studies of fast growing, innovative companies that have created and implemented successful strategies that are practical, market tested, and reproducible in today’s global marketplace.” – Denis A. Bovin, Vice Chairman, Investment Banking, Bear Stearns & Co., Inc. “This book shows how to spot opportunities in a world that looks, at times, like everything is done. Jim has strung together nine pearls that reveal the essence of entrepreneurship.” – Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande, Founder and Chairman, Sycamore Networks, Inc. Author of ReEngineering the Corporation A New York Times Best Seller & More than 3 Million Copies Sold Jim Champy revolutionized business with Reengineering the Corporation. Now, in Outsmart! he’s doing it again. This concise, fast-paced book shows how you can achieve breakthrough growth by consistently outsmarting your competition. Champy reveals the surprising, counterintuitive lessons learned by companies that have achieved super-high growth for at least three straight years. Drawing on the strategies of some of today’s best “high velocity” companies, he identifies eight powerful ways to compete in even the roughest marketplace. You’ll discover how to find distinctive market positions and sustainable advantages in products, services, delivery methods, and unexpected customers with unexpected needs. How to reignite growth by... • Seeing what others don’t • Breaking free of mental legacies • Using all you know • Changing your frame of reference • Tapping others’ successes • Creating order out of chaos • Simplifying complexity • Doing everything yourself there is not much new in management. but there is a lot new in business. Want more? Check out the e-book collection, Jim Champy on What's Really Working in Business. This brand new collection contains state-of-the-art business insights from world-renowned expert Jim Champy...now in a convenient e-format, at a great price!

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0132699001

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Improving Healthcare Quality and Cost with Six Sigma

By: Brett Trusko,Carolyn Pexton,Praveen K. Gupta,Jim Harrington

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Improving Healthcare Quality and Cost with Six Sigma

By: Brett Trusko,Carolyn Pexton,Praveen K. Gupta,Jim Harrington

The Definitive Six Sigma Guide for Healthcare: Methodologies, Tools, and Metrics Rising costs are making healthcare unaffordable for millions, and 100,000 people die every year due to medical error. Healthcare must change–dramatically. Many leading healthcare institutions are discovering a powerful toolset for addressing both quality and cost: Six Sigma. In this hands-on, start-to-finish guidebook, four leading experts introduce Six Sigma from the unique standpoint of the healthcare professional, showing exactly how to implement it in real-world environments. Drawing on their unsurpassed experience, the authors offer step-by-step methodologies, tools, and metrics–all thoroughly adapted to the unique realities of healthcare. They demonstrate how to utilize Six Sigma’s Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control (DMAIC) process to address even the most challenging problems. They also offer realistic guidance on rolling out Six Sigma initiatives that deliver rapid and sustainable value. The authors show Six Sigma at work in every area of the hospital: clinical, radiology, surgery, ICU, cardiovascular, laboratories, emergency, trauma, administrative services, staffing, billing, cafeteria, even central supply. You'll learn why Six Sigma can produce better results than other quality initiatives, how it brings new rigor and discipline to healthcare delivery, and how it can be used to sustain ongoing improvements for the long term. Coverage includes · Adapting Six Sigma methodology, tools, and measurements for healthcare · Designing more successful experiments · Rolling out your Six Sigma initiative successfully · Case studies from every area of the hospital, from the ICU to billing · Six Sigma templates modified fully for the healthcare environment Comprehensive and user-friendly, this book will be indispensable to everyone concerned with quality or cost: administrators, managers, physicians, and quality specialists alike. Where Six Sigma is already in use or being considered, it will serve as a shared blueprint for the entire team.

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Pearson Education

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0132703475

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Jim's Story

By: James Acason,Jim Acason

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Jim's Story

By: James Acason,Jim Acason

Jim Acason's first recollection was at four and a half years old living on a dairy farm in Dumbleton. It was a small village ten miles south west of Sydney, now the suburb Beverly Hills. He got his first pair of shoes at 13 and worked until he was 74. He wrote Jim's Story for his grandchildren who always wanted to know what the olden days were like."--Publisher.

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Partners 4 Life

Partners 4 Life

A Financial Tale of Two Cities

A Financial Tale of Two Cities

IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance Handbook

IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance Handbook

Jim Champy on What's Really Working in Business (Collection)

Jim Champy on What's Really Working in Business (Collection)

The Truth about Identity Theft

The Truth about Identity Theft

Inspire!

Inspire!

Deliver!

Deliver!

Crapshoot Investing

Crapshoot Investing

Practical Solutions for Healthcare Management and Policy (Collection)

Practical Solutions for Healthcare Management and Policy (Collection)

Maya 5 Fundamentals

Maya 5 Fundamentals

Maya 4.5 Fundamentals

Maya 4.5 Fundamentals

Connecting Top Managers

Connecting Top Managers

Outsmart!

Outsmart!

Improving Healthcare Quality and Cost with Six Sigma

Improving Healthcare Quality and Cost with Six Sigma

Jim's Story

Jim's Story

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