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When most people experience God, it's through the love of family and friends, and even the kindness of strangers. For Natalie Thomas, MBA, God’s presence was much more tangible. In this deeply personal memoir, Thomas details her life story and firsthand encounters with supernatural forces. Be prepared to open your eyes to how demons tried to deceive her family and angels offered blessed guidance.

This book details a path to launching a successful nonprofit organization. Many tips are included such as how to choose a structure, incorporated or unincorporated, whether to seek 501(c)(3) status or not and why, how to secure a documentary or reality television show, grant opportunities and grant-writing tips, and how to get media exposure as well as fundraising tips.

Your Child Can't Weight is a book that introduces a new approach to help parents and loved ones of children who are overweight. The authors share their personal experiences regarding childhood obesity and how to successfully address this very timely issue in our country.

Award-winning father and son authors Prince and Wesley Dykes are back! Introducing for the first time ever, a fictional children's book offering a kid-friendly peek into the world of credit....

Is the burden of debt keeping you awake at night? Are you looking for debt relief, wondering if you need to get a second job just to tread water? Are you seeking the shortest path to financial freedom? Well, you're in luck. You're about to unlock the secrets to getting out of debt fast - and forever! The truth is that creditors don't want you to pay down your debt. They want to keep your debt principal high so they can collect the most amount of interest possible.

For the first time ever a fiction book offers a kid friendly introduction to the stock market and investing. Young Wesley is about to turn 11 years old, and he really wants a new Gs4 gaming system. But money doesn't grow on trees, so Wesley will have to work hard and save his money to be able to make that purchase. Wesley's dad helps him out by teaching him the importance of investing and how stocks work.

Rashad's Quick Course on Taxes has answers to 55 common questions asked by personal taxpayers, business owners, investors, and nonprofit organizations. Rashad's Quick Course on Taxes provides clear and concise answers to your tax questions written in language that the average person can understand. When you have a question about personal taxes, business taxes, investments, education, or nonprofit organization, listen to Rashad's Quick Course on Taxes.

This book is for the woman who truly wants to be a badass. In this controversial, subversive guide, the author discards traditional advice for women on career, relationships, money, and family and instead dispenses her own personal brand of advice that examines taboo topics such as sleeping your way to the top, gold digging, and becoming a mom when you are young.

In Strong Thanks: Courage of the Wholehearted, Dennis Allen brings us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries of courageous empowerment. Allen shares riveting narratives and excellent strategies to allow us to transcend perceived limitations, move mountains, and be our best. Strong Thanks: Courage of the Wholehearted challenges the status quo and helps us maximize joyful, peaceful, and abundant living in every possible way.

Board position opportunities are out there, and you will find out in this audiobook why you should consider searching. The biggest takeaway about looking for a board position: be realistic and be true to yourself and the organization. If you take your service seriously and act in the best interests of the corporation, you will be a successful board member, and you will play an important part in improving the overall level of corporate governance that exists in your city or country's corporate community and beyond.

Stress can either help or hurt your performance. It can bring out the best in you or make you ill. This program will show you what stress is and how to make it a strength rather than a weakness. Stress Survival will also show you how to recognize the symptoms of stress in yourself as well as in others. Stress Survival will teach you 10 survival techniques designed to control stress problems.

Lean is designed to reduce the seven "deadly forms of waste": defects, overproduction, over processing, wasted motion, inventory (work in process), transport/handling, and waiting. Addressing any, or all, of these can help operations run more efficiently and therefore be more competitive. But, in my experience as a former union member, internal change agent, and currently as an organizational change consultant, Lean implementation in union environments can be tricky.

Some people transition seamlessly into a happy retirement and get right to the business of enjoying their new lives. But other people have a tougher time entering their retirement years. With all the talk and concern about dwindling retirement funds and our shaky economy, many retirees and soon-to-be retirees are concerned about the financial aspects of retirement planning. But what about retirement living? What would you like to do with the rest of your life?

Bridges to Health and Healthcare: New Solutions for Improving Access and Services provides a fresh opportunity to improve health outcomes. Healthcare providers will learn to:

• Engage and better serve individuals across the economic spectrum
• Reduce costs while achieving more successful patient outcomes
• Communicate complex medical information more clearly

If time is money, then being lean is both. Thanks to mega retailers worldwide, lean principles have rapidly spread to a variety of different manufacturers, such as consumer foods, apparel and food/beverage. Over the past few years, these retailers have dramatically changed how they do business in order to stay competitive in the marketplace.

Lean core idea is to maximize customer value while minimizing waste. Simply, lean means creating more value for customers with fewer resources. "More for less" Lean has a very extensive collection of tools and concepts. In this book we discussed the importance of these tools and our understanding of what they are and how they can help. This is an excellent way to get you started on your Lean Journey.

Lean business principles lead to processes that minimize waste in delivering products or services to end users. A popular misconception is that lean is suited only for manufacturing. Not true. Lean applies in every business and every process. It is not a tactic or a cost reduction program, but a way of thinking and acting for an entire organization. Businesses in all industries and services; including healthcare and governments are using lean principles as the way they think and do.

Reshoring is essentially the opposite of offshoring, it is a term used to describe the act of bringing back offshored manufacturing to a country. In the beginning of 2011, for the most part, most people thought that this was just impossible, that there would be no reshoring to the U.S. or UK, that everything was going to China, manufacturing was leaving both countries and it will never come back and I think the striking thing is how much that’s changed in the last three years.

In response to the recent economy’s woes, banks have placed a growing premium on reducing costs and improving operational efficiencies and many banks have turned to lean programs as a useful tool. Most of these banks will find themselves disappointed, however, because few lean initiatives, in our experience, deliver the expected results. The near and longer-term impact on costs proves to be far less than expected, and any gains in efficiency prove to be either temporary or too limited in scope...

Let me suggest a concept called: 5S. 5S is an organizational tool born out of the Toyota production system called Lean. The basic idea behind 5S office management is that a messy office is full of waste. Not only the waste you can see, i.e. the mess; but the time wasted in looking for the right file, your phone, eye glasses. You get the idea.