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Kai Mertins, Roland Jochem

"Quality-Oriented Design of Business Processes introduces a modeling method, "Integrated Enterprise Modeling" (IEM), which is related to ISO standards and provides manufacturing organizations with the means of analyzing, improving, and redesigning their business processes. The purpose of the book is to improve the quality of product and organizational performance through optimizing complex business processes and organizational design."--BOOK JACKET. "A computer aided tool kit, called MOOGO (included on a CD-ROM), is provided with the book. This software tool kit enables an organization to involve all appropriate personnel for purposes of modeling and optimizing business processes."--Jacket.

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Richard A. Goodman

The contributors to this book review the postindustrial subculture, emphasizing cross-disciplinary and cross-contextual inquiry, a central idiom of postindustrial organizational life. The essays consider alternative methods of understanding media that add variety to "meanings" within and without organizations. This multi-method approach to the search for meaning and the limits of words and symbols in expressing meaning generates a personally interpretive basis for science.

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Ann Perry

A guide to inheritance explains how to deal with a monetary legacy as well as other tangile assets--ranging from personal effects to vacation homes--and intangibles such as an unpaid mortgage or a family business.

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Ivy Naistadt

For many of us, public speaking is at best a chore marked by great anxiety and at worst a potential career stopper. Ours is a time when the ability to communicate in front of individuals or groups in all types of business and other situations is becoming paramount. Speak Without Fear offers a unique, practical process for combating the stage fright that plagues us every day in these situations.Unlike other books on public speaking, Speak Without Fear goes beyond the external techniques, such as how to breathe properly and keep eye contact, to delve deeply into the reason for your performance anxiety. It gets to the root of what's giving you the sweats so you can identify what's in the way and work through it to communicate naturally and comfortably before audiences of any size.Ivy Naistadt's easy-to-follow, step-by-step program will help you: Identify the degree and type of your nervousnessPinpoint the incidents and issues that, directly or indirectly, cause you fear and loathing in the spotlightDevelop and master a technique for over-coming your anxiety that's adaptable to your level of experience and needUse your new skills to shine in a variety of situations -- whether speech making, interviewing, auditioning, or presentingNo matter how anxious you are about going before an audience -- any audience, whether it's 1 or 1,000 -- Speak Without Fear will give you the tools to speak powerfully and persuasively.