The Missing Link to Toyota-Style Success—LEAN LEADERSHIP Winner of the 2012 Shingo Research and Professional Publications Award “This great book reveals the secret ingredient to lean success: lean leadership. Not only is it a pleasure to read, but it is also deep and enlightening. This book is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in lean: it’s both an eye opener and a game changer.” —Michael Ballé, Ph.D., coauthor of The Gold Mine and The Lean Manager “This will immediately be recognized as the most important book ever published to understand and guide ‘True North Lean’ and the goal of perpetual business excellence.” —Ross E. Robson, President and CEO, DnR Lean, LLC, and the original Director of The Shingo Prize “An excellent book that will shape leadership development for decades to come.” —Karen Martin, Principal, Karen Martin & Associates, and author of The Kaizen Event Planner About the Book: TOYOTA. The name signifies greatness—world-class cars and game-changing business thinking. One key to the Toyota Motor Company’s unprecedented success is its famous production system and its lesser-known product development program. These strategies consider the end user at every turn and have become the model for the global lean business movement. All too often, organizations adopting lean miss the most critical ingredient—lean leadership. Toyota makes enormous investments in carefully selecting and intensively developing leaders who fit its unique philosophy and culture. Thanks to the company’s lean leadership approach, explains Toyota Way author Jeffrey Liker and former Toyota executive Gary Convis, the celebrated carmaker has set into motion a drive for continuous improvement at all levels of its business. This has allowed for: Constant growth: Toyota increased profitability for 58 consecutive years—slowing down only in the face of 2008’s worldwide financial difficulties, the recall crisis, and the worst Japanese earthquake of the century. Unstoppable inventiveness: Toyota’s approach to innovative thinking and problem solving has resulted in top industry ratings and incredible customer satisfaction, while allowing the company to weather these three crises in rapid succession and to come out stronger. Strong branding and respect: Toyota’s reputation was instrumental in the company’s ability to withstand the recalls-driven media storm of 2010. But what looked to some to be a sinking ship is once again running under a full head of steam. Perhaps the Toyota culture had weakened, but lean leadership was the beacon that showed the way back. In fact, writes Liker, the company is “as good and perhaps a better model for lean leadership than it ever has been.” of innovation and growth. Yet, Industry Week reports that just 2 percent of companies using lean processes can likewise claim to have had long-term success. What the other 98 percent lack is unified leadership with a common method and philosophy. If you want to get lean, you have to take it to the leadership level. The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership shows you how.

Personal Excellence is a unique book that teaches individuals how to best utilize their values and beliefs in order to achieve personal success. Designed to act as a complete personal success manual, the text includes information on effective listening and communication skills, stress management, time management, and the creation and acquisition of personal goals. Each chapter of the text provides motivational and easy-to-relate to examples of how the skills explained have led to the success of others. Personal Excellence also stresses the important tenets of critical thinking and problem solving as well as how creative thinking impacts personal success. Designed to act as a complete personal success manual, the book includes information on effective listening and communication skills, stress management, time management, and the development of effective, measurable goals.

Achieving Excellence: Educating The Gifted and Talented, provides foundational information relating to the field of gifted education (i.e. history, laws, etc.), details characteristics of gifted students from various populations, describes how such students are identifiedand assessed, and presents up-to-date, research-based pedagogy relating to curriculum design and instruction. It draws upon experts in the field to present content in a practical way so that it is applicable to pre-service and classroom teachers. Chapter summaries and questions for thought and reflection are included at the end of each chapter to help guide classroom discussion. In addition, each chapter provides a listing of useful resources that enables the reader to extend their learning on a particular topic or issue.

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of the classic book in the field provides a conceptual foundation for the fund raising profession. Hank Rosso's Achieving Excellence in Fund Raising examines the profession.s principles, strategies, and methods and is filled with practical examples. Guided by the enduring philosophy of fund raising master Henry A. Rosso, contributors explain the reasoning behind the planning and selection of strategies for all fund raising activities, including building your case for support, approaching donors, managing campaigns, and demonstrating stewardship. "The greatest compliment a master teacher can be paid is to have his students carry on in grand fashion his work. His students learned well and many have achieved excellence. Hank's work lives on in their words." — Kent E. Dove, senior adviser, Indiana University Foundation "There are few true classics in the literature upon which any field of practice is based. Achieving Excellence in Fund Raising serves the nonprofit sector with a distinctive blend of quality leadership and sound guidance. Fund development success is built on the strategic integration of the contents of this important publication." — Robert F. Long, vice president for programs, W.K. Kellogg Foundation "Excellence in Fund Raising includes the different cultures of giving with the latest in diversity fund raising . . . a must for any nonprofit leader." — Rebecca Adamson, founder and president, First Nations Development Institute "As the medical profession has its Gray's Anatomy, the fund raising profession now has an equivalent text. I have practiced this profession for forty-two years and I am confident that there is nowhere else one could or need go beyond Achieving Excellence in Fund Raising, second edition, to gain an understanding of the comprehensive anatomy of fund raising. This book should be must reading for all who currently practice as a reminder of all the great and lasting principles that define this calling and for all who aspire to enter this noble and fulfilling profession." — Charles R. Stephens, managing partner, Skystone Ryan, Inc.