Focused Quality: Managing for Results is a book about using quality improvement as a means to enhance bottom line results. Written for managers in industry, services, healthcare and government, this important new book provides a focused approach on how to target critical improvement initiatives and insure their success.
Prepare - Plan - Deploy - Transition are the steps in the improvement process that are covered in detail. Included are examples of how organizations have successfully accomplished each step. Practical lessons on how to and how not to implement quality and process...

This book compiles reliable protocols for preparation of intermediates for carbohydrate synthesis or other substances and methods performed at the bench, which can be expected to be useful in the glycosciences. To ensure reproducibility, the experimental part involved is verified by an independent checker by repeating the protocol or using the method. Regardless of whether the method has previously been published, the protocol must be reliable and expected to be of wide use in the carbohydrate field.

Would you like to lose weight? Do the demands of teaching leave you too tired to exercise? Do you crave unhealthy food after a long day at school?

Teachers work hard. We spend so much energy on our students that sometimes we don't have much left for ourselves. Staying healthy as a teacher is hard to do.

But you can do it Any teacher can exercise, eat well, and come to work with a positive attitude and more energy than they ever have before. They plan for success and target just a few powerful habits.

The Teacher's Guide to Weight Loss will show you how to:

--Plan...