Building the Value Machine: Transforming Your Business through Collaborative Customer Partnerships
This book responds directly to some of the most significant issues in today’s business environment: How can we identify the right key accounts, and how can we work more closely with them? How can we become a key supplier, chosen to collaborate on the customer’s future plans? How can we align our internal functions to the demands of those customers? How do we do this profitably?
Proverbs supposedly contain the wisdom of the common folk - eternal truths to be passed down through the ages. Like many other traditions and cultural practices, proverbs often promote misleading stereotypes of women. This reference book collects more than 800 American proverbs about women and analyzes their significance. The proverbs were gathered through an extensive review of journal articles, proverb dictionaries, and other literature. In addition to true proverbs, the volume includes some phrases, sayings, and proverbial comparisons.
Becoming a Teacher through Action Research: Process, Context, and Self-Study, 2nd Edition
Becoming a Teacher through Action Research, Second Edition skillfully interweaves the stories of pre-service teaching with the process of action research. This engaging text focuses specifically on the needs of pre-service teachers by providing assistance for all stages of the research experience, including guidance on how to select an area of focus, design a culturally-proficient study, collect and interpret data, and communicate findings.
Prepare to experience a brand new thought process on the drawing of life and the expression of energy. This important concept is also the least talked about subject in figure drawing classes today. Artist Michael Mattesi is your guide on an exciting and provocative journey through multiple methods of thinking using easy to understand critiques of dynamic drawings. Learn to approach drawing through Michael's groundbreaking theory about force and its relationship to: Rhythm, Form,Shape,Clothing, Reportage, Animals
American Spa is dedicated to helping spa professionals better their businesses. We provide spa owners and managers with inside information and trends on everything from the bottom line to wellness. Through the use of evocative photographs and an elegant design, we build a community by taking our readers deep inside the spa world.
