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Part case study, part manifesto, this groundbreaking new book by a doctor and a healthcare executive uses real-life anecdotes and the logic of lean thinking to make a convincing argument that a revolutionary new kind of healthcare -- lean healthcare -- is urgently needed and eminently doable. In On the Mend: Revolutionizing Healthcare to Save Lives and Transform the Industry John Toussaint, MD, former CEO of ThedaCare, and Roger A. Gerard, PhD, its chief learning officer, candidly describe the triumphs and stumbles of a seven-year journey to lean healthcare, an effort that continues today and that has slashed medical errors, improved patient outcomes, raised staff morale, and saved $27 milli...
As a leader, do you "own the room"? Are you an "extraordinary leader"? In Owning the Room, Roger A. Gerard draws on his more than 45 years of leadership experience, both successes and mistakes, to explore these questions and reveal how leadership must be cultivated. Leadership is not for amateurs! It must be learned on the ground, by being a leader, and doing the hard work of leading others. Frankly, it's the only way. In this book, Gerard serves as your holistic leadership coach and mentor - a voice that has been there, done that, and is still learning many years later. Owning the Room is segmented into three parts - Leadership Action as Intention, Making it Happen, and Deepening the Learning - and focuses on three fundamental dynamics of leadership: 1. Inspiring the mind through knowledge, 2. Inspiring the heart through care, 3. Inspiring purpose through accomplishment and humility along the way. Owning the Room details not only the "how to's" of ideal leadership, but also goes in-depth about what must happen when things go wrong. Effective leaders inspire people to hope, to focus on the possible, and to rise beyond. Take the keys in this book to own your room....
Includes items reprinted from the Christian Register and the New York Evening Post; an extract from a sermon preached the Sunday following van Polanen's death; and the epitaph from his monument in a cemetery at Bridgeport, Conn.
Genetic Modification-the end of the world as we know it! This is the burning phrase that's written on a paper that falls from the hands of a dieing man, and is picked up by young, inquisitive Aurora Evans. While our heroine is rebuilding her life after the death of her fiancé, she uncovers sinister happenings at the company where she works-threats, hate mail, a murder attempt-and she believes it's all because of the unbridled greed that surrounds the genetically modified foods industry, a deadly new industry. Sexy French-American, Gerard Marques unites with his colleague to expose the conspirator, but he gets something he didn't bargain for-he falls madly in love with Aurora. Together, they struggle to become vulnerable to love.
Includes reports, etc., of the Society.
A story of love and adventure set in the turbulent reign of Elizabeth the First. The Comte Gerrard de Gault, a Huguenot, is sent to warn his fellow Protestants to leave France, before the Catholics burn them at the stake. The Spanish Inquisition imprisons him; where he swears an oath to avenge all those deaths before escaping to become the Secretary of the Commander-in-chief of the Spanish Armada; helps Sir Francis Drake capture the Treasure Ship at the sack of Cadiz; assist in the execution of Mary Queen of Scots; is responsible for the defeat of the Armada.