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The bible of value investing--updated by today'svalue investing masters

"Toyota Kata gets to the essence of how Toyota manages continuous improvement and human ingenuity, through its improvement kata and coaching kata. Mike Rother explains why typical companies fail to understand the core of lean and make limited progressΓÇöand what it takes to make it a real part of your culture."ΓÇöJeffrey K. Liker, bestselling author of The Toyota Way"[Toyota Kata is] one of the stepping stones that will usher in a new era of management thinking."ΓÇöThe Systems Thinker"How any organization in any industry can progress from old-fashioned management by results to a strikingly different and better way."ΓÇöJames P. Womack, Chairman and Founder, Lean Enterprise Institute"Practicing the improvement kata is perhaps the best way we''ve found so far for actualizing PDCA in an organization."ΓÇöJohn Shook, Chairman and CEO, Lean Enterprise InstituteThis game-changing book puts you behind the curtain at Toyota, providing new insight into the legendary automaker''s management practices and offering practical guidance for leading and developing people in a way that makes the best use of their brainpower.Drawing on six years of research into Toyota''s employee-management routines, Toyota Kata examines and elucidates, for the first time, the company''s organizational routines--called kata--that power its success with continuous improvement and adaptation. The book also reaches beyond Toyota to explain issues of human behavior in organizations and provide specific answers to questions such as:How can we make improvement and adaptation part of everyday work throughout the organization?How can we develop and utilize the capability of everyone in the organization to repeatedly work toward and achieve new levels of performance?How can we give an organization the power to handle dynamic, unpredictable situations and keep satisfying customers? Mike Rother explains how to improve our prevailing management approach through the use of two kata: Improvement Kata--a repeating routine of establishing challenging target conditions, working step-by-step through obstacles, and always learning from the problems we encounter; and Coaching Kata: a pattern of teaching the improvement kata to employees at every level to ensure it motivates their ways of thinking and acting.With clear detail, an abundance of practical examples, and a cohesive explanation from start to finish, Toyota Kata gives executives and managers at any level actionable routines of thought and behavior that produce superior results and sustained competitive advantage.

A venture capitalist and popular radio show host teams up with a New York Times bestselling author to explain how to craft and deliver a winning pitch for any occasion by tapping into the evolutionary power of the human brain

Reveals the proven, time-tested trading system he used to achieve triple-digit returns for five consecutive years, averaging 220 per cent per year for a 33,500 per cent compounded total return. This title teaches you: how to find the best stocks before they make big price gains; and how to avoid costly mistakes made by most investors.

The bestselling guide to buying stocks, from the founder of Investor's Business Daily-now completely revised and updated

Presents the advanced techniques, productive workouts, and life-transforming personal philosophies of bodybuilding legend Mike Mentzer. This title includes hunger - the code of integrity for displaying a heroic physique, and the science of productive bodybuilding exercise - Mentzer's fail-safe principles for building maximum size and strength.

Offers strategies and wisdom from research and interviews with over 120 real life millionaire real estate investors. This book helps you learn how to develop the mind-set and financial strategies of a millionaire investor. It offers a blend of insights, instruction and inspiration and is intended for both novices and veterans.

Illustrated with motivational photographs, this book shows how excessive training is slowing down your progress. It covers topics such as: the importance of working to the "point of failure"; Mentzer's use of the early Nautilus machines: a "Heavy Duty" seminar; "Most Productive" Routine; and advanced "Heavy Duty" training techniques.

Offers expert guidance on completing any Briggs & Stratton maintenance and repair job quickly and easily. This resource includes information on overhead valves (OHV), carburetion advances, new muffler designs, and advanced alternators. It covers everything from ignition, fuel, and charging systems... to starters and engine mechanics.

Penetrate the mysteriously powerful problem-solving methods and learn the secret techniques of the worldOs most prestigious business consulting firm, in this insightful how-they-do-it guide by a former McKinsey & Company analyst.

"It takes thousands of hours of sailing to get the kind of knowledge contained in this book." -- from the Foreword by Bruce Schwab The ONLY bible for how to sail your boat fast, safe, and alone Solo sailing is within any sailor's grasp with a little forethought--and this essential guide.Got a 35-foot sailboat? No problem. Is the wind blowing 20 knots? No problem. Are you racing offshore overnight? Even better. Singlehander Andrew Evans learned the hard way how to sail and race alone--with lots of mishaps, including broaches and a near tumbling over a waterfall--and in Singlehanded Sailing he shares the techniques, tips, and tactics he has developed to make his solo sailing adventures safe and enriching.Learn everything you need to know to meet any solo challenge, including:Managing the power consumption aboard a boat to feed the electric autopilotSetting and gybing a spinnakerFinding time to sleepDealing with heavy weather

A manual for achieving McKinsey-style solutions and success. It reveals the secrets behind the powerhouse firm's success and discusses how executives from various fields or industry can use those tactics in day-to-day decision-making. It explores how McKinsey tools and techniques can be applied to business problem sin various settings.

A clear, concise guide to Spanish that presents grammar, verbs and vocabulary in order of usefulness, so that students can communicate with confidence almost immediately.

Considering stress, this text covers the discovery of stress; the dissection of stress; the disease of adaptation; and implications and applications. Annotated references are also included.

Helps you discover the power of Kaizen to make lasting and powerful change in your organization. This guide shows you how to: lower costs - by offering little rewards; raise quality - by reducing mistakes; manage difficult people - one step at a time; boost morale and productivity - in five minutes a day; and sell more - in less time.

Many books have been written about Warren Buffett's value-investing strategy. Even so, no one can touch the success Warren Buffett has achieved. Why? In this revealing examination of Buffett's success, the author proposes the key to replicating his achievements is found in his acquisition practices as well as his investment strategy.

Get up and running with French.

A step-by-step guide to shedding revenuedraining complexity costs

Addresses various concerns in the market environment. This title features Tharp's 17-step trading model. It also addresses reward to risk multiples, as well as insightful interviews with top traders, and includes examples and charts.

A resource on art therapy. It features illustrated examples, exercises, and case studies on how art therapy works and how it can be used in health care and mental health counseling. It shows how art therapy can help your patients express and understand emotions, deal with trauma, relieve stress, and manage grief.

He controlled the author's life, distorted her self-image, and tried to physically harm her throughout their long affair. Then, in therapy, she learned to treat her eating disorder (ED) as a relationship, not a condition. In this title, she presents practical exercises to help you break up with your own personal ED.

Reveals tips for preparing effective presentations and shows how to combine those tips with technologies for better visuals. This book provides information on how to prepare different types of charts - pie, bar, column, line, or dot - and when to use each, and recommendations on lettering size, color choice, appropriate chart types.

In this fully updated bestseller, an experienced airline pilot helps readers succeed on the technical pilot interview and advance their careers.

Helps you deal with the problems of communicating to a skeptical, media-blitzed public. This book describes a revolutionary approach to creating a "position" in a prospective customer's mind-one that reflects a company's own strengths and weaknesses as well as those of its competitors.

Put into practice today's winning strategy for achieving success in high-end sales!

Covers almost everything you need to know to sew comfort, utility, and style into your boat. This book features many traditional canvas projects: sail covers, awnings, duffel bags, dodgers, and Biminis, wind chutes, and winter covers. It also includes many fabric projects: custom interior cushions, fitted sheets and daycovers, and more.

Broken promises, missed deadlines, poor behavior - they don't just make others' lives miserable; they can sap up to 50 percent of organizational performance and account for the vast majority of divorces. This title offers the tools for improving relationships in the workplace and in life and for resolving all these problems - permanently.

Offers a step-by-step technique for sparking breakthrough creativity in advertising - or any field.

The encyclopedia of sailboat rigging and marlinspike arts-updated to reflect the latest materials and methods

Offers a guide technicians tuned up to provide an advantage in global economy. This book shows you how to maximize your profits in today's complex markets by tailoring your application of this powerful tool.