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Creating an Effective Management System

Integrating Policy Deployment, TWI, and Kata

By: Patrick Graupp,Skip Steward,Brad Parsons

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Creating an Effective Management System

Integrating Policy Deployment, TWI, and Kata

By: Patrick Graupp,Skip Steward,Brad Parsons

The decades of experience-based wisdom that Graupp, Steward and Parsons share will set you on a new path to a more joyful organization and the tangible results it will produce." Rich Sheridan, CEO, Menlo Innovations; author of Joy, Inc. and Chief Joy Officer "A fine book by skilled practitioners that integrates Kata and TWI, with Strategy Deployment in pursuit of an integrated management system. Well done, Skip, Brad and Patrick." Pascal Dennis, president, Lean Pathways Inc.; author of Lean Production Simplified, Andy & Me, Andy & Me and the Hospital, Getting the Right Things Done, and The Remedy "In this practical and engaging book, Patrick Graupp, Skip Steward, and Brad Parsons give a concise and extremely clear explanation of what systems thinking looks like in a healthcare setting. And they do so in a way that translates easily to any type of organization. Highly recommended!" Alan Robinson, co-author of Ideas Are Free and The Idea-Driven Organization Despite the vast library of knowledge on Lean tools and models, the majority of Lean implementations fail to sustain themselves over time for lack of a functioning management system. In turn, when organizations try to apply a prescribed, one-size-fits-all, management system they inevitably find that what works for others may not work quite as well in their unique situation. Putting the right pieces in the right places is the prime challenge for every organization and no two successful management systems will, or should, be the same. This book provides and examines core principles that must be in place for an organization to find what an effective management system should constitute for them. It outlines key elements and how they work together as a necessary system to achieve overall success. Based on their extensive experience with organizational development and hands-on leadership in policy deployment, TWI and Kata, the authors describe their own journey in helping organizations discover and develop systems that function like well-designed and smooth-running machines while capturing the humanistic aspects of the foundational skills that emphasize the inherent synergy of the system. Readers will learn to help their own organizations "connect the dots" between the various pieces of Lean methodology and effectively create their own management systems that ultimately fulfil customers’ needs and expectations.

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0429949065

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Heralds of the King

Christ-Centered Sermons in the Tradition of Edmund P. Clowney

By: Edmund P. Clowney,Joseph Skip Ryan,Iain M. Duguid,Charles D. Drew,William Edgar,Timothy Keller,Arturo G. Azurdia, III,Julius J. Kim,Joseph V. Novenson,Harvie M. Conn

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Heralds of the King

Christ-Centered Sermons in the Tradition of Edmund P. Clowney

By: Edmund P. Clowney,Joseph Skip Ryan,Iain M. Duguid,Charles D. Drew,William Edgar,Timothy Keller,Arturo G. Azurdia, III,Julius J. Kim,Joseph V. Novenson,Harvie M. Conn

Eleven preachers with different gifts, backgrounds, and personal emphases show how they proclaim Christ from all the Scripture in a variety of contexts. Edmund P. Clowney (1917-2005), the late president and professor of practical theology at Westminster Theological Seminary, was a trailblazer of Christ-centered, redemptive-historical preaching. Through his classroom instruction, his publications, and his example as a preacher, he ignited in many seminary students and pastors a passion to preach Christ from all the Scriptures as the fulfillment and climax of God's plan of redemption. This collection of sermons is intended to illustrate how various preachers with different gifts, backgrounds, and personal emphases are working out in practice the homiletic principles they learned from Dr. Clowney. The volume, which includes sermons and introductory comments by editor Dennis Johnson, Tim Keller, Joseph "Skip" Ryan, and eight other contributors, enables readers to carry away both models and practical advice for preparing sermons that proclaim Christ across a broad spectrum of congregations and people groups.

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Crossway

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1433504022

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Whaling Captains of Color

America's First Meritocracy

By: Skip Finley

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Whaling Captains of Color

America's First Meritocracy

By: Skip Finley

The history of whaling as an industry on this continent has been well-told in books, including some that have been bestsellers, but what hasn’t been told is the story of whaling’s leaders of color in an era when the only other option was slavery. Whaling was one of the first American industries to exhibit diversity. A man became a captain not because he was white or well connected, but because he knew how to kill a whale. Along the way, he could learn navigation and reading and writing. Whaling presented a tantalizing alternative to mainland life. Working with archival records at whaling museums, in libraries, from private archives and interviews with people whose ancestors were whaling masters, Finley culls stories from the lives of over 50 black whaling captains to create a portrait of what life was like for these leaders of color on the high seas. Each time a ship spotted a whale, a group often including the captain would jump into a small boat, row to the whale, and attack it, at times with the captain delivering the killing blow. The first, second, or third mate and boat steerer could eventually have opportunities to move into increasingly responsible roles. Finley explains how this skills-based system propelled captains of color to the helm. The book concludes as facts and factions conspire to kill the industry, including wars, weather, bad management, poor judgment, disease, obsolescence, and a non-renewable natural resource. Ironically, the end of the Civil War allowed the African Americans who were captains to exit the difficult and dangerous occupation—and make room for the Cape Verdean who picked up the mantle, literally to the end of the industry.

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Naval Institute Press

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1682478335

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Godliness and Greed

Shifting Christian Thought on Profit and Wealth

By: Skip Worden

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Godliness and Greed

Shifting Christian Thought on Profit and Wealth

By: Skip Worden

Skip Worden shows the profound transformation of Christian thought on economics from the beginning of the Commercial Revolution to the fifteenth-century Renaissance. Worden explains how the general antagonism toward the pursuit of wealth before the Commercial Revolution turned into Protestant theologians' fighting against the prevailing view of a pro-wealth paradigm during the fifteenth century.

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Lexington Books

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0739139851

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No Return Ticket - Leg Two

By: Captain Skip Rowland

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No Return Ticket - Leg Two

By: Captain Skip Rowland

Readers around the world were enthralled by the first voyage of Skip Rowland and his yacht 'Endymion'. In this second leg of No Return Ticket, Skip tells of his further adventures battling storms, a flooded river, a host of maritime dangers and narrowly avoiding capture by pirates.This is a story of real-life adventure at sea, told by a master story teller.

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You Can Understand the Book of Genesis

Experience Its Meaning and Message

By: Skip Heitzig

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You Can Understand the Book of Genesis

Experience Its Meaning and Message

By: Skip Heitzig

In the Beginning—A Good Place to Start Genesis is chock-full of some of the Bible's most exciting stories. From Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden to Joseph's reunion with his family. Do you ever wonder if God really did create the world in seven days? What's the deal with Cain and Abel anyway? And just how big was that boat Noah built? Start at the beginning with Pastor Skip Heitzig and the accounts on which the rest of Scripture is built: the creation of the world, the fall of mankind, and God's establishment of the history of the nation of Israel. Follow along and learn not just the origins of man, but also the origins of God's plan for redemption. Understanding the book of Genesis is crucial to understanding the rest of the Bible. And it all starts in the beginning.

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0736975225

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God's Gold

By: Skip Worden

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God's Gold

By: Skip Worden

Dr. Worden traces the historical shift through the centuries of how Christian thinkers have assumed profit-seeking and wealth are related to the sin of greed. For centuries, the dominant view was that making and accumulating money instantiates the presence of greed. The uncoupling of greed from its assumed external manifestations began to take hold with Aquinas and was complete a century before the Protestant Reformation and its famed work ethic. Rather than viewing the Reformation as pro-wealth, Worden characterizes the reformers broadly as applying the brakes to various degrees in hopes that Christianity would not lapse into accepting greed.In the final chapter, Worden proffers an explanation to account for the shift from the anti- to pro-wealth position. He examines the core of Christian theology and finds a very subtle pro-wealth bias, and provides two remedies.

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1365641392

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Safe to Great

The New Psychology of Leadership

By: Skip Bowman

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Safe to Great

The New Psychology of Leadership

By: Skip Bowman

How do today’s leaders move from playing it safe to playing for great? In a volatile time of climate crisis, global pandemics, and disruptive technologies, leaders may find themselves clinging to fear-based mindsets that favor individualism over collectivism – inadvertently controlling their teams rather than inspiring genuine commitment in them. To navigate uncertainty and seize emerging opportunities, leaders must move toward a more facilitative, enabling approach that centers on purpose before profit and the team before the individual. In Safe to Great, consultant, keynote speaker, and author Skip Bowman outlines an integrated organizational and leadership development process for implementing a growth mindset based on psychological safety. Grounded in more than 25 years of experience working with global organizations, Bowman’s model unites theory and practice in a set of practicable principles designed to meet the opportunities and challenges of leading and organizing in the twenty-first century and beyond. Bowman looks to the concept of psychological safety, as described in Amy C. Edmondson’s work on fearless organizations, to examine how a workplace that tolerates risk and exhibits a willingness to experiment can facilitate high levels of innovation. The tenets of a growth mindset, as popularized by Carol Dweck, also serve as a guiding philosophy: Bowman urges organizations to take a generative approach to managing people and resources, putting at least much back as they extract. In this relational model, success rests on the combined achievements and developmental growth of the collective rather than on the accumulation of power and wealth by a single executive or small group of stakeholders. Conversational in tone and packed with big hopes and uncomfortable truths, Safe to Great makes an impassioned appeal for a new standard of leadership that will move people and organizations from a place of relative comfort and little risk to a space of daring curiosity, engagement, and collaboration.

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Figure 1 Publishing

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1773272314

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Historic Tales of Oak Bluffs

By: Skip Finley

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Historic Tales of Oak Bluffs

By: Skip Finley

Skip Finley's Town of Oak Bluffs columns in the Vineyard Gazette were widely popular thanks to his breezy style and historical content. In this curated collection, he presents a chronological telling of how the community became the welcoming seaside resort for a uniquely diverse group of residents and visitors, including five American presidents. Discover how islanders like Ichabod Norton, Old Harry and Lucy Vincent Smith helped to define the island we know today. From the Panic of 1873 to the Inkwell and beyond, these witty and whimsical tales prove why this particular spot is featured in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467143979

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Barren Grounds

The Story of the Tragic Moffatt Canoe Trip

By: Skip Pessl

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Barren Grounds

The Story of the Tragic Moffatt Canoe Trip

By: Skip Pessl

In 1955 Arthur Moffatt led an expedition consisting of young college students and recent graduates to the Inuit lands of Nunavut, Canada, to follow the path of the 1893 Tyrrell expedition and to film and photograph the group's progress. The expedition, a 900-mile epic journey across the Barren Lands of Arctic Canada, has stirred controversy and criticism for over fifty years. The trip has been variously described as "the pioneering venture in modern recreational canoe travel" and as "an excellent example of how not to conduct a canoe trip." Delays took their toll on the adventurers, exhausted by the seemingly endless paddling through unknown rivers and lakes, the trek across the windswept tundra, and torment by voracious insects. Threatened with diminishing food reserves and increasingly harsh weather, the members of the expedition were forced to travel with greater speed and less caution, and ultimately a fatal mistake was made. Two of the canoes capsized, dumping four men into the frigid waters. Moffatt, the leader, died of exposure. It took the survivors ten days of arduous travel with minimum food and equipment to reach the safety of theÊHudson's Bay Company post. Barren Grounds features passages from the journals of two young Moffatt party members and excerpts about the 1893 expedition of Joseph Burr Tyrrell, along with entries from the journal of Art Moffatt himself. Part cautionary tale, part nail-biting adventure, the book will appeal to outdoorsmen and armchair adventurers alike.

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Dartmouth College Press

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1611685338

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9781611685336

Spiritual Restoration

By: Skip Moen

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Spiritual Restoration

By: Skip Moen

Why is it so difficult to live the way the Bible teaches? Why don't things work out when we try to be truly holy? Why does the world give us so many problems? If you've struggled with these kinds of questions, there are answers. Walk the path of Spiritual Restoration. You will discover that our frustration and confusion often comes from our Greek worldview. God has a completely different perspective, but if we try to live with one foot in the Greek world and one foot in the Hebrew world, we feel compartmentalize, fragmented and defeated. We have unconsciously worked against ourselves by trying to make God fit the Greek model. All of that can change today! Spiritual Restoration reveals the startling differences between these worldviews. Now we can begin recovery and restoration where living the biblical worldview makes sense for what we need today. Author, teacher and consultant, Skip Moen has five degrees including a Ph.D. from Oxford University. With more than twenty-five years of business entrepreneurial development, Skip provides consulting that helps organizations align their leadership and operations with Biblical principles. He is the Dean of the Department of Biblical Leadership at Master's International Divinity School and the author of Words to Lead By, a study of Jesus' leadership. Skip achieved the American dream of independent wealth only to discover a life of pointless affluence. God radically changed his direction, exposing the myth of security in a Greek-based culture. Now he wants to recover the foundation of God's point of view for living. Subscribers to his web site (www.atgodstable.com) receive a daily word study focused on personal application of the depth of God's word. His articles on business, ethics, theology and personal commitment have appeared in many periodicals.

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Xulon Press

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160647555X

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The Bible from 30,000 Feet®

Soaring Through the Scriptures in One Year from Genesis to Revelation

By: Skip Heitzig

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The Bible from 30,000 Feet®

Soaring Through the Scriptures in One Year from Genesis to Revelation

By: Skip Heitzig

Give me a year, and I'll give you the Bible." —Skip Heitzig Enjoy the magnificent panorama of Scripture like never before! Pastor Skip Heitzig shares a FLIGHT plan for all 66 books of the Bible to help you better understand the context and significance of each. In this one-year overview, you'll discover... Facts—about the author and the date each book was written Landmarks—a summary of the highlights of the book Itinerary—a specific outline of the book divided by themes Gospel—how to see Jesus within the book's pages History—a brief glimpse at the cultural setting for the book Travel Tips—guidelines for navigating the book's truths If you have ever found yourself getting lost and wandering from verse to verse in Scripture, put yourself firmly on track with the clear aerial view offered in The Bible from 30,000 Feet.

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Harvest House Publishers

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0736970304

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9780736970303

Vietnam Revisited

By: Skip Vaughn

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Vietnam Revisited

By: Skip Vaughn

Vietnam Revisited shares the personal stories of America’s sons and daughters who fought the most unpopular war in our nation’s history. They answered America’s call to arms to fight the spread of communism in Southeast Asia. While antiwar sentiment and protests raged at home, many Americans volunteered to serve in the Vietnam War. Many were drafted. But the Vietnam veterans and Vietnam-era veterans put their lives on the line to do their nation’s bidding.

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Page Publishing Inc

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1640273352

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Defying Normal

Soaring Above the Status Quo

By: Skip Heitzig

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Defying Normal

Soaring Above the Status Quo

By: Skip Heitzig

Skip Heitzig, pastor of a 15,000 member mega-church, shows readers how to defy the pressures of this worldly life, and soar above the status quo to experience the divine.

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Worthy Books

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1617957011

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Last Journey

A Father and Son in Wartime

By: Darrell Griffin Sr.,Darrell "Skip" Griffin Jr.

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Last Journey

A Father and Son in Wartime

By: Darrell Griffin Sr.,Darrell "Skip" Griffin Jr.

The harrowing true story of a father and his son, a staff sergeant who died in Iraq: a tribute to the Great Conversation' they shared and the manuscript they had intended to complete together. Staff Sergeant Darrell 'Skip' Griffin, Jr, was killed in action on March 21, 2007, during his second tour of duty in Iraq. He was awarded the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star Medal for dragging a comrade to safety through enemy gunfire. He was also in the middle of writing a book. In the face of Skip's death, Darrell, Sr, takes it upon himself to finish the book.

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Atlas and Company

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1934633925

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Codfish, Dogfish, Mermaids and Frank

Coming of Age on the Open Ocean

By: Skip DeBrusk

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Codfish, Dogfish, Mermaids and Frank

Coming of Age on the Open Ocean

By: Skip DeBrusk

It has been over 50 years since I spent my summer's aboard the J.L. Stanley and Sons. So much has changed in that brief period of time that it seems like a distant past. Gone are the bountiful fish and invincibility of the oceans. Greatly diminished is an industry that formed communities and supported generations. Gone is a way of life that now seems so innocent. Children never moved so far away and genuine familiarity with our neighbors was common. The language itself was kinder and gentler in the spoken word.

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Reginald vanFenwick Press

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0972816941

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9780972816946

Biography of God

By: Skip Heitzig

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Biography of God

By: Skip Heitzig

Does God exist? If He does, is it possible to know Him? How you answer these two questions defines how you see the world. Author and pastor Skip Heitzig once wrestled with these questions himself. As he studied the Bible alongside science and philosophy, he grew confident that the answers to both are a resounding yes! In Biography of God, he shares the intricacies of what the Bible reveals about God’s character and His plans. As Skip helps you recognize and remove the limits you may have placed on your idea of who God is, you’ll gain a better understanding of the… omnipotence, paradoxes, and mystery central to God’s being true nature of the Holy Trinity life-changing hope that comes with believing God is who He says He is Whether you’re a longtime believer or you’re still looking for answers about faith, Biography of God will help you transform your acknowledgment to trust in the God in the Bible, and ignite your passion to know Him more intimately.

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Harvest House Publishers

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0736977732

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Linthicum Vignettes: Tales of a Linthicum Historian

By: Oscar 'Skip' Booth

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Linthicum Vignettes: Tales of a Linthicum Historian

By: Oscar 'Skip' Booth

Local historian Oscar 'Skip' Booth spent his life living, working, advocating for and writing about his hometown of Linthicum, Maryland. His "Vignette" series provided some of the only written histories of the small, unincorporated Baltimore suburb. The historical local landmarks like Tauber's, Chuck's Drive-In, BWIi Airport, and Bruce's Hardware are carefully detailed here. Skip passed away after a short illness in 2014. His commitment to community lives on in the pages of this book.

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1312682655

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The House That God Builds

By: Skip Heitzig

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The House That God Builds

By: Skip Heitzig

Pastor Heitzig has assembled a collection of impressive and informative study guides and lifestyle booklets, covering a wide variety of topics, from divorce and remarriage to procrastination and dynamic discipleship.

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Connection Communications

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1886324417

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Creating an Effective Management System

Integrating Policy Deployment, TWI, and Kata

By: Patrick Graupp,Skip Steward,Brad Parsons

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Creating an Effective Management System

Integrating Policy Deployment, TWI, and Kata

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