Coping Styles makes concepts from organizational psychology relevant to peoples’ daily lives. This book describes nine ways we cope with life’s difficulties and the nine ways we learn to help one another.
Themes: Centering, coping, detach, disciple, empower, family and relationships, helping others, intervene, learning, liberate, psychology, recovery, repent, spiritual, team formation.
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This ebook is the project write-up for a demonstration of the Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) method. The ebook includes the project charter, project schedule and project plan. The project charter is based on project management concepts. The project plan is based on the DFSS methodology of Define, Measure, Analyze, Design and Verify (DMADV).
Themes: Best practices, critical to quality, customer satisfaction, design for six sigma, DFSS, DMADV, information technology, project charter, project management, project plan, project schedule, six sigma, verification survey.
The sample application is available for download as a zip file.
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Growth Rings makes concepts from developmental psychology relevant to peoples’ daily lives. This book describes the eight stages of development and shows how those stages influenced key historical figures. It then links developmental psychology with current legal topics.
Themes: Developmental psychology, disciple, drug policy, family and relationships, helping others, history, learning, psychology, recovery, social evolution, spiritual, team formation, US Presidents.
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This ebook contains an ITIL case study and ten questions about the integration of the ITIL disciplines. These are the types of questions you see when responding to a Request for Proposal or when working as an ITIL consultant. Following each question there is a brief synopsis of how the author would respond to the question.
Themes: Best practice, business alignment, information technology, ITIL, organizational management, project management.
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This booklet provides a concise summary of the key aspects of ITIL version 2.
This Bible study examines the message in the Book of Job using a mathematical approach. The goals are to describe a repeatable process for examining written text; and to learn from the Book of Job. The conclusions are confirmation that the process works and a better understanding of the theology in the Book of Job.
Themes: Bible, coping, God, Job, redeemer, roles, theology.
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This Bible study uses linear trend analysis to search for patterns in the way themes, roles, developmental stages, actions and dualism are used in the words spoken by Jesus in the four gospels. The linear trends are consistent except when examining the use of developmental stages. The analysis of developmental stages implies there is a normal distribution of the data with two subsets offset slightly. It appears that greater social maturity is conveyed in actions that unify than is used in actions that divide.
Themes: Bible, developmental psychology, dualism, disciple, God, helping others, Jesus, judgment, linear trend, normal distribution, redeemer, roles, theology.
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This ebook contains a series of presentations regarding Version 2 of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) standard. It includes quizzes on ITIL, a synopsis of each topic and graphical images useful as memory aides.
Themes: Best practice, business alignment, information technology, ITIL, organizational management, project management.
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This book contains a series of presentations on the Critical Path Method. It includes a bonus presentation on Earned Value. These lessons are for people learning more about the mathematical aspects of project management.
Themes: Critical path, critical path method, earned value, project management.
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The purpose for this ebook is to examine project scheduling alternatives and describe a tool that is useful when managing a project in a chaotic environment. Alternatives include the classic waterfall method, fast-tracking and cumulative flow diagrams. Arguments are then presented to explain why cumulative flow diagrams are an excellent choice for project management in a chaotic environment.
Themes: Cumulative flow diagrams, Fast track, Information technology, Little’s Law, Project management, Project schedule, Team formation, Theory of constraints, Throughput accounting, Waterfall method
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The theme in this book is the need to align all the efforts in an Information Technology shop. The chapters describe the need for vision, best practices for projects, operations, governance and how to measure the results. The book is filled with short stories about how things really work today and how they will be better tomorrow.
Themes: Best practice, governance, information technology, metrics, project management, six sigma, team formation, vision.
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The theme in this book is the human relationship aspects of project management. The chapters survey the best known models of organizational psychology, leadership and organizational management. The concluding chapter describes an integrated model of organizational psychology and explains how this is relevant to project management and team formation.
Themes: Best practice, human relations, management style, organizational management, organizational psychology, project management, psychology, team formation.
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This link displays a brief summary of the evolution of the conceptual model I use as the foundation for my books. This model began with the integration of several theories from organizational management.