The Prime Movers: Traits of the Great Wealth Creators - Book Information and Review

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• Narayana Rao

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Author: Edwin Locke

 

Publisher: AMACOM, 2000

 

 

Table of Contents

 

 

Chapter 1: The Creation of Wealth
Reason; Rights; Technology; The Relationship between Freedom and Wealth; Economic and Political Freedom; Prime Movers; The Traits; Conclusion

Chapter 2: Independent Vision
What Is Vision? Myopic Visions; The Danger of Experts; Visions as Evolutionary; Vision Communication; Independent Visions; Visionaries and Their Companies; Conclusion

Chapter 3: An Active Mind
Thinking; Volition; Reality; Intuition; Active Minds at Work; How Do Active Minds Go “Bad”? Conclusion

Chapter 4: Competence and Confidence
Competence and Learning; Confidence; Prime Abilities; Risk; Reaching Beyond One’s Grasp; Overconfidence; Fear of Failure; Conclusion

Chapter 5: The Drive to Action
Action; Prime Movers in Action; Actions Off Course; Drive; When Is Enough, Enough? Conclusion

Chapter 6: Egoistic Passion
Counterfeit Egoism; True (Rational) Egoism; Prime Movers at Work; Egoism and “The Public Interest”; The Prime Mover’s Attitude toward Himself; Passion and Reason; Conclusion

Chapter 7: Love of Ability in Others
Business and Friendship; Prime Movers as Ability Lovers; Falls from Grace; The Role of the Individual in an Age of Groupism; Conclusion

Chapter 8: Virtue
Values; Egoism; Rationality; Independence; Productiveness; Honesty; Integrity; Justice; Virtues as Guiding Corporate Principles: BB&T; The Evil of Initiating Force; Conclusion

Chapter 9: How to Make a Billion Dollars
Other Traits; Male and Female; Strategy; Management; The Success Quartet; Business and Religion; Giving Back; Antitrust; Inequality; Greed; Hatred of the Good

 

 

 

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Review of John Allison is CEO of BB&T.

 

Dr. Locke sees a relatively small number of outstanding individuals who make a disproportionate contribution to human well-being.

My experience as a banker and CEO of a successful S&P 500 company supports this conclusion. Occasionally people get lucky, but 90 percent of the time, successful companies are created by powerful leaders.

The underlining ethics of communism is: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

 

The morality of capitalism is exactly the opposite: From each according to his ability; to each according to his productivity. The more you produce, the more you receive.

 

Capitalism is the system that allows Prime Movers to make their maximum contribution.

 

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Kagan and Segal's Psychology: An Introduction (with InfoTrac®) - Book Information and Review

9th Edition

 

Contents

 

 

1. The Science and Practice of Psychology.
2. Brain, Body, and Behavior.
3. Sensing and Perceiving.
4. Conditioning and Learning.
5. Remembering and Forgetting.
6. Language and Thought.
7. Intelligence and its Assessment.
8. Emotion and Motivation.
9. Personality and its Assessment.
10. Human Development: Conception Through Childhood.
11. Adolescence, Adulthood, and Death.
12. Stress, Coping and Well-Being.
13. Mental and Behavioral Disorders.
14. Treatment Approaches for Mental and Behavioral Disorders.
15. Social Psychology.

 

 

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Developing Your Sociological Imagination - John Witt - Book Information and Review

 

 

Published by McGraw Hill 2009

 

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Contents

 

 

 

1. The Sociological Imagination
2. Sociological Research
3. Culture
4. Socialization
5. Social Structure and Interaction
6. Deviance
7. Families
8. Education and Religion
9. Government and Economy
10. Social Class
11. Global Inequality
12. Gender and Age
13. Race and Ethnicity
14. Health, Medicine and Environment
15. Social Change

 

 

 

 

 

 

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All standard topics in basic Sociology texts covered in this book also.

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Spotlight on Modern Transformer Design - Georgilakis - Browse Book Online

 

 

Spotlight on Modern Transformer Design introduces a novel approach to transformer design using artificial intelligence (AI) techniques in combination with finite element method (FEM).

 

AI is computationally efficient in solving hard optimization problems. On the other hand, FEM is particularly capable of dealing with complex geometries, and also yields stable and accurate solutions.

 

Many numerical examples throughout the book illustrate the application of the techniques discussed to a variety of real-life transformer design problems, including:

• problems relating to the prediction of no-load losses;

• winding material selection;

• transformer design optimisation;

• and transformer selection.

 

Spotlight on Modern Transformer Design is a valuable learning tool for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as researchers and power engineering professionals working in electric utilities and industries, public authorities, and design offices.

 

 

Pavlos S. Georgilakis is currently Assistant Professor at the Production Engineering and Management Department of the Technical University of Crete (TUC), Greece. He has worked in the transformer industry for ten years before joining the TUC. He is the author of two books, more than 50 journal papers and 70 conference papers.

 

 

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Handbook of Maintenance Management - Joel Levitt - Book Information and Review

2009, Industrial Press


Contents

How to Use this Book   
1    Where We Are Today    1
2    Patterns in Maintenance    10
3    Strategic Assessment of Maintenance Options    20
4    Selling Maintenance Improvements to the Whole Organization    27
5    How Assets Deteriorate    37
6    Estimating Maintenance Budget for Buildings and Equipment    42
7    Evaluating Maintenance - Two Questionnaires    48
8    Benchmarking Maintenance    66
9    How to Evaluate Worker Productivity    77
10    Maintenance Budgeting    87
11    Life Cycle Costing    96
12    The Science of Customer Service    106
13    Reengineering Maintenance    112
14    Contracting, Outsourcing    121
15    In-Sourcing    129
16    Guaranteed Maintainability    136
17    Maintenance Quality Improvement    139
18    ISO 9000 and Its Relation to Maintenance    146
19    Techniques for Continuous Improvement in Maintenance    153
20    Improving Maintenance Reliability - RCM    160
21    Accounting Issues of Maintenance    164
22    Maintenance Information Flow    175
23    Capturing Maintenance Information    186
24    What is PM?    209
25    How to Install and Run a PM System    215
26    PM Task List Development    231
27    Predictive Maintenance    247
28    Projects that Put You in the Driver's Seat    261
29    Use of Statistics in Maintenance    273
30    Planning    278
31    Project Management    282
32    Estimating Job Duration    287
33    Maintenance Scheduling    292
34    CMMS - Computerized Maintenance Management Systems    298
35    Maintenance Parts and Part Vendors    325
36    Maintenance Stockroom and Inventory Control    336
37    The Internet and Maintenance    346
38    How Maintenance Interfaces to Other Departments    354
39    Elements of Maintenance Leadership    363
40    Craft Training of Maintenance Workers    375
41    Special Issues of Factory Maintenance    394
42    Special Issues of Fleet Maintenance    401
43    Special Issues of Building Maintenance    413
44    Special Issues of Field Service    437
    Resources    449
    Glossary

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Managing Factory Maintenance - Joel Levitt - Book Information and Review

2004, Industrial Press

Contents


1    What do bosses really want from the maintenance activity?    1
2    How to improve maintenance    4
3    World class maintenance management    17
4    Evaluate your maintenance department    33
5    Maintenance quality improvement    41
6    Maintenance information flow    52
7    Managing maintenance through planning and scheduling    59
8    Maintenance work order    76
9    Computerization of maintenance CMMS    109
10    Maintenance technical library    126
11    RCM and PMO    133
12    PM (preventive maintenance)    139
13    Understanding PM    152
14    TPM (total productive maintenance)    178
15    Introducing and managing predictive maintenance, technology    188
16    Understanding the interfaces with other departments    201
17    Zero based maintenance budgeting    229
18    Shutdowns, outages, and project management    236
19    Craft training    241
20    Supervisor evaluation clinic    254
21    Delegation and communication    269
22    Time management in the maintenance pressure cooker    277


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