People as Care Catalysts: From Being Patient to Becoming Healthy

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The healthcare sector is undergoing strong expansion worldwide, as the focus changes from 'treating illness' to 'promoting wellness' and those able and willing to pay for their health make up for the shortcomings of national systems. How things evolve will depend on whether the national systems reinvent themselves around a new model of customer value, or fail to change and become obsolete. Global in scope and insightful in its conclusions, People as Care Catalysts sets out an agenda for how things could develop in the new 'healthcare economy'.

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"Today, change flashes across the landscape like lightning. Simple, single-focus fix-it schemes no longer work, and isolated, unintegrated, one-time improvement efforts fail miserably. Organizations require periodic revolution, not just constant evolution." âJohn J. Cotter

The first law of the jungle is that the most adaptable species are always the most successful. In the struggle for survival, the winners are those who are most sensitive to important changes in their environment and quickest to reshape their behavior to meet each new environmental challenge. As author John Cotter makes abundantly clear in this groundbreaking book, the law of natural selection holds as true for business organizations as it does for animal species.

For Cotter, the key to getting a jump on change and beating out the competition in today's tumultuous, hypercompetitive business jungle is Rapid Redesign ^TM. A dynamic new approach to formulating and implementing strategic change, Rapid Redesign is based on the ongoing, systematic assessment of "the 200f what you do that will contribute most to your success in the future," and then doing less to accomplish more by concentrating your time and energies on that 20%. Cotter demonstrates how Ford, Hewlett-Packard, Canon, and many other outstanding companies have successfully used this technique to become leaders in their respective industries. More important, he provides managers with a comprehensive blueprint for making Rapid Redesign work in companies of any size to increase their efficiency and effectiveness today and in the future.

Cotter begins by spelling out the changes in perspective required of every member of a company attempting to make the transition to a flexible, change-centered organization. This is followed by a series of interrelated chapters in which he provides step-by-step guidelines on how to go about designing, planning, building, and managing such an organization. You'll learn how to identify and prioritize key strengths and weaknesses in your organization's structure, work routines, and personnel in the context of tomorrow's opportunities. You'll discover hundreds of innovative new approaches to improving productivityâsuch as horizontal business teams and internal and external alliancesâand you'll learn how to tailor them to the unique demands of your own organization and industry. You'll also learn how to reshape your organization in the three key areas of structure, support, and staffing, and how to build mechanisms for continuous reflection and renewal into the new organizational structure.

Read The 20% Solution and find out how to help your organization make the leap from merely surviving change to thriving on it.

Don't wait for change to happen . . . make it happen!

A dynamic approach to building flexible, change-driven business organizations for greater profit and productivity

Rapid, unrelenting, all-encompassing change and uncertainty are the only constants in business today, and the most successful organizations aren't the ones that have learned how to survive change, but the ones that actually thrive on it. Now, find out how to transform your company into a sleek, hard-driving glutton for change in The 20% Solution.

Written by one of the world's leading authorities on redesigning organizations for changing times, this groundbreaking book shows you how to design, plan, build, and manage a super-flexible, change-centered organization. John Cotter presents hundreds of real-life success stories that show how leading companies have applied The 20% Solution, and provides detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to make it work for you. He tells you everything you need to know to redesign your organization for success in the future.

The 20% Solution shows you how to:

Identify your company's core competencies and capabilities
Zero in on the small number of key issues that are critical to your company's future growth and profitability
Reshape your organization around the three key areas of structure, support, and staffing
Create innovative new approaches to improving performance and custom-tailor them to your company alone
Guarantee continuous rethinking and renewal of the way your organization does business

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Very well written - superb examples.......1996-12-19

Very well written with suberb examples. A good plain-language introduction to sociotechnical systems design - Harvey Kolodny, Professor, Faculty of Management, University of Toront

very helpful book.......1996-12-19

I personally use this book as a reference guide many times in my day-to-day business and I find the examples particularly helpful Hermann Jakob, Launch Planning & Training Manager, Ford Europ

A must read.......1996-07-30

For years, all the books available on organization design were written at too high a level of abstraction for practicing managers or were so enmeshed in detail that they simultaneously confused and bored the reader. At last, with The 20% Solution, John Cotter has provided a readable and practical guide to designing organizations for todayÍs business environments. This book is a real treasure chest of ideas. A must read! - Leonard A. Schlesinger, George F. Baker Jr., Professor of Business Administration, Ha

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Farm Management, Land Use and Tenancy in the Philippines. Central Experiment Station Bulletin 1.
Horst & Judith, et al. von Oppenfeld
Manufacturer: Univ. of the Philippines.
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ASIN: B000MRI7H4

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Farm management, land use, and tenancy in the Philippines (University of the Philippines. College of Agriculture. Central Experiment Station. Bulletin 1)
Horst Von Oppenfeld
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Tenancy, land-use and farm management practices in Macalong, Asingan, Pangasinan,
Santos G Aragones
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Why do you shift from walking to running at a particular speed? How can we predict transition speeds for animals of different sizes? Why must the flexible elastic of arterial walls behave differently than a rubber tube or balloon? How do leaves manage to expose a broad expanse of surface while suffering only a small fraction of the drag of flags in high winds?

The field of biomechanics--how living things move and work--hasn't seen a new general textbook in more than two decades. Here a leading investigator and teacher lays out the key concepts of biomechanics using examples drawn from throughout the plant and animal kingdoms. Up-to-date and comprehensive, this is also the only book to give thorough coverage to both major subfields of biomechanics: fluid and solid mechanics.

Steven Vogel explains how biomechanics makes use of models and methods drawn from physics and mechanical engineering to investigate a wide range of general questions--from how animals swim and fly and the modes of terrestrial locomotion to the way organisms respond to wind and water currents and the operation of circulatory and suspension-feeding systems. He looks also at the relationships between the properties of biological materials--spider silk, jellyfish jelly, muscle, and more--and their various structural and functional roles.

While written primarily for biology majors and graduate students in biology, this text will be useful for physical scientists and engineers seeking a sense of the state of the art of biomechanics and a guide to its rather scattered literature. For a still wider audience, it establishes the basic biological context for such applied areas as ergonomics, orthopedics, mechanical prosthetics, kinesiology, sports medicine, and biomimetics.

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A lot of interesting material.......2007-09-10

I had read one of the author's previous books, 'Life in moving fluids', several years ago as part of a biomechanics course. I liked it, so when I saw this book I had high expectations. After reading it, I was not disappointed.

There is a very nice mix of developing basic concepts (e.g. buoyancy or fluid flow) and how living organisms use these in their daily lives (e.g. a fish's swim bladder or a bird's wing).

These general arguments are obviously important for addressing a great number of questions. From paleobiology, could pterosaurs fly or just glide? How fast could a T-Rex run? Why are there so few surface swimming animals? Some other interesting facts he presented were: how spiders use hydraulic force to extend their legs, why gliders tend to have long thin wings, how cell metabolism rate varies with organism size (I was aware of the mouse-elephant curve, but was quite surprised to hear this), hearts have self-triggering muscles and that some fish have their eyes located in a position such that the pressure does not vary with swimming speed (important so that the focal point does not change).

Some of the physics presented was interesting even outside of its use in biology. In my experience fluid dynamics is not covered much in physics, mainly just Bernoulli's equations and Reynolds number. I think most physicists would improve their understanding and intuition of fluid dynamics by reading this book. The materials topics, like crack propagation, were also interesting.

The book covers the basics of Newtonian mechanics (and things like units and dimensional analysis) used throughout the book. I skipped these chapters so I cannot comment on whether they provided an adequate background for the remainder of the book.

Needless to say, I liked this book a lot. I liked both coverage of the general principles and the specific cases used to illustrate them.

Only an introduction to biomechanics.......2006-02-21

I am a grad student in biology who recently got interested in spider silk biomechanics. I was looking for a good book on biomechanics and my advisor suggested that I get this one. It was so disappointing !

The coverage of the various topics is quite superficial. The chapter on biological materials is especially disappointing to me : since I already knew what were 'stress', 'strain' and 'Young's modulus', I didn't learn anything. I guess you can learn as much by just surfing the web -- and that's for free.
I also think the book lacks equations and formulae. You can go through 10 pages without seeing any equations -- just text. Maybe 'equations' does not mean 'scientific rigor', but I can't help prefering a good old equation to lines and lines of text.

Maybe I was expecting too much from this book. So okay, if you are a biologist, don't like maths and have never heard of biomechanics, you may enjoy that book. But you have to be aware that it is REALLY an introduction.

Best introductory physics textbook ever.......2004-06-25

This book would be a fantastic text for an introductory physics class, eg, mechanics classes aimed at future doctors. It begins with the "simple" problem of walking, which can be understood as an oscillation, with the frequency tuned to the length of your legs. From there, the book proceeds to dimensional analysis, and treats the biomechanical universe as a set of simple tubes, surfaces, flows, beams, and levers, all amenable to simple calculation and estimation. This book contains more real, relevant physics than any introductory physics text (with the possible exception of the Feynman lectures, which are totally unsuited for first-year students). It is the best physics textbook we know. (Review co-written by Dr Sanjoy Mahajan, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge).

Offer from the author..........2003-11-02

An accumulation of instructional materials to accompany the book will be sent as an e-mail attachment to anyone who contacts me at svogel@duke.edu--just tell me a little about who you are. The files (Word and PDF) are freely usable for anything except remunerative republication. If you are using the book in a course and wish to limit local dissemination (I supply answers to the problem sets), tell me and I'll do my best to comply.

Comparative Biomechanics ; Life's Physical World

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Comparative Biomechanics ; Life's Physical World
Steven Vogel
Manufacturer: New Age International (P) Ltd.
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Binding: Hardcover

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The book provides a comprehensive description of the principal constituents of milk (water, lipids, proteins, lactose, salts, vitamins) and of the chemical aspects of principal families of dairy products. It also covers applied aspects, such as heat-induced changes and the use of enzymes, and principal physical properties. This concise overview should be of value to all dairy scientists and students.

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BIOCHEMISTRY OF MILK PRODUCTS (Special Publications)
ANDREWS , and VARLEY
Manufacturer: Royal Society of Chemistry
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Cheesemaking
Andre, Ed. Eck
Manufacturer: Lavosier Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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First published in English twelve years ago, Cheesemaking quickly became a major reference worldwide. Now, revised and expanded, this unrivalled second edition reflects French "know how" about traditional methods and new processes. It deals with all types of milk covering both scientific and production perspectives ranging from biochemistry and chemistry to biology, biotechnology and technology. Each topic is written by a top expert in the field taken from industry, RetD and the teaching profession. This new edition contains the most recent data on cheesemaking with the contents featuring the key issues facing the industry, namely, quality assurance, hygiene, chemical and microbial purity.

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From the National Outdoor Leadership School, the leader in wilderness education, comes the definitive guide on winter camping--based on the official NOLS curriculum, it's the next best thing to taking a course with a qualified instructor. You'll learn how to layer clothing to stay warm and dry, how to maneuver a pack sled through heavy snow cover, and how to sleep comfortably in conditions of extreme cold. Additionally, sections on avalanche safety and first aid provide essential preparation should disaster strike. Illustrated throughout with detailed line drawings. About the Author:Buck Tilton is a co-founder of the National Outdoor Leadership School's Wilderness Medicine Institute and a winner of the Paul K. Petzoldt Award for Excellence in Wilderness Education. He has written numerous books on the outdoors and is a contributing editor for Backpacker magazine.John Gookin is an instructor and curriculum manager for the National Outdoor Leadership School. The National Outdoor Leadership School's official guide to camping in extreme cold Comprehensive coverage of winter clothing and gear Proven techniques for traveling efficiently and safely across snow and ice and complete directions for building igloos and many other snow shelters

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Good but could be better........2005-08-10

This was a very good book for somebody who is just getting into winter camping. The information is solid and reliable, and it is laid out in a very readable fashion. I have other books by Buck Tilton, and his writing style is always very engaging, Unfortunately, my initial excitement that NOLS (The National Outdoor Leadership School) had finally brought out a guide to winter camping, was dampened by the basic nature of the material. I look to NOLS to challenge and expand my knowledge base, and although I am an experienced winter adventurer, I am hardly an expert. I was also disappointed that what are known as "traditional" winter travel and camping techniques receive almost no mention, except for two scant paragraphs on snowshoes.

As I stated, the book is good, and is a worthy addition to any winter recreation library. But if you are just getting into the activity, I would steer you towards Stephen Gorman's "Winter Camping, 2nd Edition" (1999, Appalachian Mountain Club) as a better guide on how to get into what is referred to by some guides as "the undiscovered season."

Snow Shelter Fun.......2005-02-17

I'm a NOLS grad and was asked to do a class for our local Boy Scout troop on winter camping and snow shelters. I picked up a copy of NOLS Winter Camping and found it to be a fantastic resource. The illustrations were very helpful and the instruction was well organized, easy to read and use. The kids are going camping this weekend and they will be sleeping in a snow cave.

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Excellent personal recipe journal

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Ina Garten's Barefoot Contessa Recipe Deluxe Journal (Potter Style)
Ina Garten
Manufacturer: Potter Style
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound

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ASIN: 1400049881
Release Date: 2003-09-16

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Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa Deluxe Recipe Journal is the ultimate kitchen accessory–perfect for jotting down and organizing recipes.

160 pages (lined), 6 x 8 inches, with a concealed wire-o binding

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Excellent personal recipe journal.......2004-04-29

I have really enjoyed my recipe journal. I needed a book to consolidate my most used recipes in because I tend to forget what the heck I cook. It has made it easy for me to flip thru MY favorite recipes and find a quick meal to make instead of going thru numerous cookbooks when time is of the essence. It's fun as well because instead of just writing the recipes down, I am making both color and black and white copies of recipes and taping them in the book along with pictures of what some of the recipes look like. I also have been able to write down recipes passed down to me by my mother that have no measurements, but I can cook them as long as I know the ingredients.
It's a pretty book w/spiral binding and I am having a lot of fun with it. I hope to pass it down one day.
If you need the tabs, indexes, sleeves, etc...not for you.

Not a cookbook?.......2003-09-19

I saw the page for Ina's new book and anxiously went, grabbing my credit card number. But, alas, it is not to be so . This is a journal for writing down my recipes, not Ina's. Not for me. Ina's three other cookbooks are amazing, full of great recipes for things like coconut cupcakes and roasted vegetables. Easy stuff. Great stuff. Guess it'll have to be patient and wait on her next culinary writing adventure. In the meantime, I'll be watching her on Food Network.

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Preeminent among rare reference books, this 1849 work reprints (with the original-language version and its English translation on facing pages) manuscript collections on painting and related arts from the 12th through 17th centuries. The treatises describe European oil painting practices, methods of mixing pigments, much more. Preliminary commentary on each treatise, plus excellent introduction discussing social history, artistic practices. Glossary. Index. 6 illus.

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It is still one of the most important books on the argument.......1999-08-31

Written in 1848-9, this book contains some of the most important manuscripts on the arts, like the MANOSCRITTO BOLOGNESE, HERACLIUS BOOK, MANUSCRIPT OF JEHANN LE BEGUE, ecc.. Each manuscript is in its original language together with the english translation. The introduction by M.P.Merrifield is still very interesting.

It is still one of the most important books on the argument.......1999-08-31

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