In the first edition of "Zapp!", Byham revealed a brilliant new system for jump-starting corporate success--with smart, efficient, and effective methods for motivating employees and improving productivity. Now updated to keep pace with the ever-changing business environment of the nineties, this revised edition brings new insights that are sure to ...
This second edition of the thriller-style story of Alex Rogo's fight to save his plant has an extra 10 chapters which bring the story forward to describe Alex's transition from Plant Manager to Divisional Manager. It incorporates the business principles of the author's Theory of Constraints (TOC).
This trustworthy guide and tour through the jungle of perennials that are available from nurseries, garden centers, and mail-order sources describes the 150 greatest, most beautiful, longest-flowering, easiest to care for "all star" perennials. A Perennials Plant Finder helps readers pinpoint the perfect plants for each specific site in a garden. ...
In this dynamic, helpful, guide William C. Byham takes his Zapp! empowerment principles and adapts it for the classroom with workable, hands-on advice for how educators can get their students (and themselves) excited about education again. He shows how to get students to take responsibility for their own progress by involving them in decision ...
A hands-on guide to growing perennials with an easy-to-use chart of details on culture, bloom color, and use for over 300 plants. Includes keys for successful perennial gardening, creating a garden that blooms in all seasons, turning any property into a living work of art, and more. 81 color photographs; 58 illustrations.
This is an engaging and accessible explanation of Einstein's equation that explores the principles of physics through everyday life. Professor Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw go on a journey to the frontier of 21st century science to consider the real meaning behind the iconic sequence of symbols that make up Einstein's most famous equation. ...
Authors Jeff and Marilyn Cox present a complete workbook for garden transformation with ways for readers to change their landscape from sterile and boring to lush and vividly alive. Includes detailed instructions on doing everything from making a natural path, garden pool or wildwood meadow to custom-coloring concrete and aging wood. 80 full-color ...
"Couldn't have come at a better time! The message is definitely on target. People who work with staff and volunteers in any profession would gain from reading, re-reading, and practicing the concepts in this book."John PaulVice President, American Heart AssociationWilliam C. Byham's book, ZAPP! THE LIGHTNING OF EMPOWERMENT took the business world ...
In this business book disguised as a novel, first published in 1984, is used by thousands of companies and taught in hundreds of business schools. It tells the story of Alex Rogo, manager of a failing plant given an ultimatum by corporate headquarters, and how he discovers a revolutionary new way to do business. Fully dramatized by an ensemble ...
The authors of the bestseller Zapp! present new techniques and concrete tools to enable employees on all levels to motivate themselves and others. In this delightfully magical fable, readers envision themselves as heroic knights who slay the dragons blocking the way to a prosperous future. Zapp! sold over 150,000 copies in hardcover.
Eight minibooks cover ASP.NET basics, Web controls, using HTML and ASP, C#, Visual Basic, database programming, using the .NET Framework, and advanced ASP.NET 2 (including themes, custom server controls, and Web parts). This is the ideal resource for Web programming newcomers as well as the 1.5 million existing ASP developers who want a complete ...
This is the most comprehensive, authoritative organic foods guide available. Flavorful, nutritious meals begin with flavorful, nutritious ingredients. They also begin with knowledge. If you want to learn about and enjoy the benefits of organic foods, this book is an essential resource that will make it easier to 'go organic' by helping you 'know ...
Why should you choose organic foods? Organic food has never been more popular, and for good reason: it tastes better, it's more nutritious, and it's better for the environment. This handy guide shows you how to select the freshest, tastiest varieties and transform your organic groceries into memorable meals. You'll find guidance on what to look ...
Jeff Cox, author of "From Vines to Wines" and a connoisseur well respected in wine circles, shows you how to equip and set up the cellar and then stock it with wine you like. He answers which wines will improve with age and which won't, and how to predict when your wine is ready to drink.
There's trouble in the widget business. With a communication crisis threatening Essential, a leading producer of widgets, the company pulls together, side-stepping boundaries to save the day. Authors Paul and Cox, respectively a former disciple of Jack Welch and a business writer, weave this fable to demonstrate the efficacy of the Welch way in ...
This accessible sales management book presents theory and practice as a parable of an ancient man trying to encourage an unenthusiastic audience to recognize the benefits of his invention, the wheel. By defining the strengths and weaknesses of four distinct sales personalities, the author argues the merits of developing both sales teams and ...
How a workforce can get "zapped" is the subject of this groundbreaking book, one that strikes like lightning at the heart of '90s business. Unlike other business guides that separate employees from management, Zapp! merges the needs of each into a cohesive whole, to improve productivity and worker satisfaction, in order to make profits and empower ...
Featuring gardens, flowers and plants that appeal to our sense of sight, smell, touch and hearing, this volume aims to enhance the pleasures of both gardening and visiting gardens for the reader. The book offers a fresh approach to home garden design by showing how an appreciation of the sensuous qualities of plants enriches the time we spend ...
For anyone who wants to make wine at home, here is the necessary info, including growing, harvesting, blending, aging, and serving, by a seasoned California gardener and wine-maker.
Zapp! is a modern-day fable that explores the concept of empowerment in easily recognizable and applicable terms. It details what managers and organizations must do to create and maintain an empowered work force - dedicated to constant improvement in terms of quality, output, sales and customer satisfaction. Most managers know that revitalization ...
First published in 1984, this undergroung bestseller--a business text disguised as a novel--contains revolutionary ideas. An exhilarating adventure in human potential. Sound effects and music. Unabridged.
In this fast-paced, inspirational business novel, the bestselling author of "Zapp!" chronicles the American dream of owning one's own company. The path to being one's own boss is strewn with almost every roadblock imaginable, but the protagonist of this lively story presses on to success.
Once upon a time, there was a guy named Max. One night Max invents the wheel. But how can he sell it? This book uses a fictitious story to demonstrate the four selling techniques: closer, wizard, builder and captain & crew. Each style is suited to a particular type of salesperson and matched to what customers value the most at certain stages of a ...
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