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Transforming Schools: Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement

1 review
Allison Zmuda, Robert Kuklis, ...

Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve, 2004

Professional Development tool
This text aids one in figuring out how to reform or transform one's school culture. It is not a set of prescribed rules but rather guidelines on what to do and how to do it. I really enjoyed the sections wherein the authors created a fictional dialogue to convey their worldly application of the skills. It was easy to identify with one or more of the staff members in said dialogue. The main ...

Creating sustainable reform: five urban districts implement models for continuous improvement and lasting ...
Christopher R. Brown, David Spangler

Thomson Gale, 2006

This digital document is an article from School Administrator, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2006. The length of the article is 2944 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Creating sustainable reform: five urban ...

Management Strategy: Creating Excellent Organizations
Richard E. Mallory

Trafford Publishing, 2006

Management Strategy: Creating Excellent Organizations is a unique how-to guide for organizational improvement which is designed for leaders at any level in private, public or non-profit organizations. It provides clear steps and actions to allow you to transform a mediocre organization into a great one, or to redirect and rebuild enthusiasm for excellence in an organization that has lost focus, or lost spirit.

The Ever Changing Organization: Creating the Capacity for Continuous Change, Learning, and Improvement

1 review
Gerald R Pieters, Doyle W Young

CRC, 1999

Excellent Book For Change In The Organization And Individual
Doyle Young and Gerald Pieters have just written a book about change in the organization in plain English. Reading another book from cover to cover about change can become an exercise in boredom but the authors keep the subject matter focused with clear and concise language. The topic applies not only to change in the organization but to the individual as well. The Ever Changing Organization ...

TPS-Lean Six Sigma: Linking Human Capital to Lean Six Sigma - A New Blueprint for Creating High Performance ...

1 review
Hubert, K Rampersad, Anwar El-Homsi

Information Age Publishing, 2007

Praise for TPS-Lean Six Sigma from Business Leaders in the US and abroad
"Hubert Rampersad and Anwar El-Homsi continue their superb integration of business, project, and personal life in their new book. Their disciplined, logical, and scorecard approach to melding business and personal lives will be a major benefit to companies, leaders, and employees. The new book is full of examples, tools, and exercises that will help individuals discover and align their ...

Creating Continuous Flow: An Action Guide for Managers, Engineers & Production Associates

3 reviews
Mike Rother, Rick Harris

Lean Enterprise Institute, 2001

A Great Book!
This book is even better than Learning to See. There is much more detail about how to implement in-cell improvements. You are not doing LEAN until you start doing what this book teaches. I was able to start applying the principles immediately. This book shows you a practical, detailed, direct approach that is easier to understand and apply than the more theoretical LEAN Thinking and Machine ...

Keep Urgency Up: Creating a Culture that is Hospitable to Continuous Change
John P. Kotter

Harvard Business School Press, 2008

An organization that can sustain a high sense of urgency over time has the potential to become a high-performance machine, where results go from good to great and beyond. But sustaining urgency over time requires that it not only be created, and created well, but that it be re-created again and again, becoming firmly ingrained in an organization's culture.