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Pocket Guide for Hospitality Managers
by Conrad Lashley Michael N. ChibiliA concise, practical guide that provides the skills and knowledge for current and future managers across the hospitality industry. The book provide a concise resource for all emerging hospitality managers, and for academics preparing students for careers within the hospitality industry.With a ‘how to do’ agenda, the authors offer a practical guide to the skills and knowledge needed by those who will be managing bars, restaurants and hotels in the fast moving hospitality retailing contexts. Written in a non-academic style, this book will be a valuable resource for students and early career managers working in the hospitality sector.
Pocket Guide to Business Finance
by Peter Morris Paul Burns****This is a pocket-sized version of the A4 pictorial guide***Whatever the shape or size of a business, they all have one thing in common - they hope to make money. A major factor in determining success is the ability of management to control its finances. Business Finance painlessly demystifies the process of accounting and the understanding of business finance. Follow the adventures of a small-time entrepreneur and his finance director as she helps him turn his business from a potential casualty of the 'Death Valley Curve' into an efficient, profit-making success story. Balance sheets, profit and loss statements, cash flow, working capital, depreciation, cash flow forecasting, budgeting, and gearing are all explained making this the book to guide readers safely through the jargon jungle of financial management.
Pocket Guide to Quality Improvement in Healthcare
by Rahul K. Shah Reneè Roberts-TurnerThis text will act as a quick quality improvement reference and resource for every role within the healthcare system including physicians, nurses, support staff, security, fellows, residents, therapists, managers, directors, chiefs, and board members. It aims to provide a broad overview of quality improvement concepts and how they can be immediately pertinent to one's role. The editors have used a tiered approach, outlining what each role needs to lead a QI project, participate as a team member, set goals and identify resources to drive improvements in care delivery. Each section of the book targets a specific group within the healthcare organization. Pocket Guide to Quality Improvement in Healthcare will guide the individual, as well as the organization to fully engage all staff in QI, creating a safety culture, and ultimately strengthening care delivery.
Pocket Guide to Selling Services and Products
by Peter Morris Malcolm McDonaldFirst published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Pocket Guide to TQM (Mini Pictorial Guides Ser.)
by Peter Morris John S OaklandAnother new book in the popular and original series of pictorial guides - John Oakland cuts through the complex concepts and confusing jargon associated with implementing Total Quality, and Peter Morris presents the information in his inimitable pictorial style. This book will show students and managers what they need to understand about TQM in the simplest, clearest and most memorable form. Professor John Oakland is undoubtedly the British guru of quality management. Following a successful industrial career in research and production management, he has developed a pragmatic approach to introducing TQM which he and his colleagues have used successfully in literally thousands of organizations. He is founder and Executive Chairman of OAKLAND Consulting Plc. and Head of the European Centre for TQM at the University of Bradford Management Centre. Also published by Butterworth-Heinemann are John Oakland's bestselling Total Quality Management (now in its second edition) and Cases in Total Quality Management. Peter Morris is the creative force behind the illustrations in all Butterworth-Heinemann's pictorial guides. Originally trained as an art teacher, he spent several years as an industrial designer in Canada before returning to England to design educational and training materials for the University of Sussex. His experience working on industrial contracts convinced him, quite rightly, that cartoons are frequently the best way to illustrate the abstractions of business life.
Pocket Marketer: Your Portable Professional Real-World Marketing Companion
by Brian Scott Sockin Janet GrottalioThis marketing sourcebook has all the basics: marketing functions and plans, key terms, tools, charts and forms for almost every business.
Pocket Pal: A Graphic Arts Production Handbook, Twentieth Edition
by Frank RomanoPocket Pal is an authoritative introduction to the graphic arts. It is useful for artists, graphic designers, publishers, advertisers, students, and buyers of printing. Covers topics on prepress graphic arts and subjects include digital printing and papers. This book is a unique and welcome gift idea for anyone interested in printing.
Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship In Twentieth-century America
by Meg Jacobs"How much does it cost?" We think of this question as one that preoccupies the nation's shoppers, not its statesmen. But, as Pocketbook Politics dramatically shows, the twentieth-century American polity in fact developed in response to that very consumer concern. In this groundbreaking study, Meg Jacobs demonstrates how pocketbook politics provided the engine for American political conflict throughout the twentieth century. From Woodrow Wilson to Franklin Roosevelt to Richard Nixon, national politics turned on public anger over the high cost of living. Beginning with the explosion of prices at the turn of the century, every strike, demonstration, and boycott was, in effect, a protest against rising prices and inadequate income. On one side, a reform coalition of ordinary Americans, mass retailers, and national politicians fought for laws and policies that promoted militant unionism, government price controls, and a Keynesian program of full employment. On the other, small businessmen fiercely resisted this low-price, high-wage agenda that threatened to bankrupt them. This book recaptures this dramatic struggle, beginning with the immigrant Jewish, Irish, and Italian women who flocked to Edward Filene's famous Boston bargain basement that opened in 1909 and ending with the Great Inflation of the 1970s. Pocketbook Politics offers a new interpretation of state power by integrating popular politics and elite policymaking. Unlike most social historians who focus exclusively on consumers at the grass-roots, Jacobs breaks new methodological ground by insisting on the centrality of national politics and the state in the nearly century-long fight to fulfill the American Dream of abundance.
Podcast Master
by Ben GreenSenior multimedia producer at the Guardian, Ben Green, tells you everything you need to know about podcasting. Ben Green has been podcasting for over a decade. He has been responsible for several top podcasts, including Football Weekly, the UK's number one sports podcast,and the Guardian Guide to Running podcast.In Podcast Master, he provides a one-stop insider’s guide to everything you need to know about hosting, editing and producing online shows. It is packed with recommendations to help you get the right software and gear, advice on sponsorship and advertising, and tips on everything from platform selection to promotional artwork design.Green’s enthusiasm for the medium’s breadth and depth is infectious. With wit and verve, he takes us through the history of podcasting, shares his recommendations for the podcasts you should be listening to, and reveals proven techniques for reaching and building your audience.Whether you're broadcasting from your bedroom, or are a brand looking to enhance your profile, this authoritative, easy to follow and cutting-edge guide will give you the tools to start a podcast from scratch – or maximise your current one.
Podcasting For Dummies
by Tee Morris Chuck TomasiStep up to the mic and unleash your inner host with Podcasting For Dummies Ever wonder what it takes to get your very own podcast up and running? How to get the gear you need, pick a great topic, secure fascinating guests, and assemble it all into a refined and irresistible product? Well wonder no more! Because Podcasting For Dummies has the essential guidance you need to get your brand-new podcast up and running. From selecting the right recording equipment to identifying an audience and pro-level production tips, you'll find all the killer info to help you get started on your next big idea. You'll also get: Software and hardware tips to create and produce a crystal-clear podcast Interview advice, whether you'll be seeing your guests in-person or over Zoom Strategies for choosing the perfect platform, finding sponsors, and advertising and marketing your new creation Pointers for setting up a streaming account and doing live podcasting like an expert With everyone from A-list brands to world-famous celebrities getting in on the podcast craze, it's time you took your turn on the mic. Grab Podcasting For Dummies today and turn up the volume on the practice that's transformed countless amateurs into household names!
Podcasting Marketing Strategy: A Complete Guide to Creating, Publishing and Monetizing a Successful Podcast
by Daniel Rowles Ciaran RogersPodcasting is a hugely persuasive yet under-utilized channel accessed by an affluent and influential demographic. In a crowded and noisy digital environment, it gives organizations, brand builders and marketers the unique opportunity to stand out and drive engagement with target audiences. It offers accurate and measurable levels of allegiance that can only be dreamed of on other digital channels. Podcasting Marketing Strategy is a complete guide to the podcast environment. It describes the importance of podcasting for businesses and explains why, uniquely, it has the highest level of consumer commitment than any other social media. Written by an award-winning author and his co-host of the global top ten iTunes podcast, The Digital Marketing Podcast, this book explains how podcasting can drive business results, advises on how to record, edit and advertise your content and provides a unique digital marketing toolkit. Supported by case studies from influential organizations around the globe, Podcasting Marketing Strategy is the definitive authority to making and publishing podcasts that deliver quantifiable results.
Podcasts in der Unternehmenskommunikation: Wie Sie mit strategischen Audioformaten Ihre Zielgruppen erreichen (essentials)
by Stephan SchreyerDieses Buch gibt einen schnellen Überblick über das Thema Podcast. Wie muss das Thema Podcast strategisch angegangen werden, damit es nachhaltig einen Mehrwert für ein Unternehmen bietet? Sind Podcasts nur ein Hype oder können sie sinnvoller Teil des Kommunikations- und Marketingmixes eines Unternehmens sein? Podcasts sind der aktuelle Trend in der Kommunikation und im Marketing. Täglich kommen unzählige neue Formate auf den Markt. Die hohe Smartphonedichte, ein verändertes Mediennutzungsverhalten, bessere mobile Datenverfügbarkeit und große Player wie Audible und Spotify haben geholfen, das klassische „Hörspiel“ in moderner Form aus der Versenkung zu holen. Dieses essential hilft dabei, strategisch eigene Podcastmaßnahmen für das Unternehmen zu entwickeln.
Podem!: Les claus de la viabilitat econòmica de Catalunya independent
by Elisenda PaluzieÉs veritat que la independència no té sentit en un context d'economia globalitzada?Què passarà amb la Unió Europea i l'Euro si Catalunya s'independitza?Quins costos té la independència?I formar part d'Espanya, continuar com ara, en té?I quins serien els guanys de la independència?Què passarà amb les pensions?Quedarà Catalunya molt endeutada si s'independentitza?Serà Catalunya un país millor?Totes aquestes preguntes i moltes més, troben resposta a Podem! Amb un estil divulgatiu i planer, però amb el rigor que caracteritza Elisenda Paluzie, aquesta obra presenta els principals temes del debat econòmic sobre la independència de Catalunya, qüestions que susciten les opinions més contraposades i generen dubtes al ciutadà que no té gaires coneixements d'economia.
Podium Data: Harnessing the Power of Big Data Analytics
by Karim R. Lakhani Lynda M. Applegate Nicole BucalaCase
Podman for DevOps: Containerization reimagined with Podman and its companion tools
by Alessandro Arrichiello Gianni Salinetti Brent J. BaudeBuild, deploy, and manage containers with the next-generation engine and toolsKey FeaturesDiscover key differences between Docker and PodmanBuild brand new container images with Buildah, the Podman companionLearn how to manage and integrate containers securely in your existing infrastructureBook DescriptionAs containers have become the new de facto standard for packaging applications and their dependencies, understanding how to implement, build, and manage them is now an essential skill for developers, system administrators, and SRE/operations teams. Podman and its companion tools Buildah and Skopeo make a great toolset to boost the development, execution, and management of containerized applications.Starting with the basic concepts of containerization and its underlying technology, this book will help you get your first container up and running with Podman. You'll explore the complete toolkit and go over the development of new containers, their lifecycle management, troubleshooting, and security aspects. Together with Podman, the book illustrates Buildah and Skopeo to complete the tools ecosystem and cover the complete workflow for building, releasing, and managing optimized container images. Podman for DevOps provides a comprehensive view of the full-stack container technology and its relationship with the operating system foundations, along with crucial topics such as networking, monitoring, and integration with systemd, docker-compose, and Kubernetes.By the end of this DevOps book, you'll have developed the skills needed to build and package your applications inside containers as well as to deploy, manage, and integrate them with system services.What you will learnUnderstand Podman's daemonless approach as a container engineRun, manage, and secure containers with PodmanDiscover the strategies, concepts, and command-line options for using Buildah to build containers from scratchManage OCI images with SkopeoTroubleshoot runtime, build, and isolation issuesIntegrate Podman containers with existing networking and system servicesWho this book is forThe book is for cloud developers looking to learn how to build and package applications inside containers and system administrators who want to deploy, manage, and integrate them with system services and orchestration solutions. This book provides a detailed comparison between Docker and Podman to aid you in learning Podman quickly.
Poetry and the Anthropocene: Ecology, biology and technology in contemporary British and Irish poetry (Routledge Environmental Humanities)
by Sam SolnickThis book asks what it means to write poetry in and about the Anthropocene, the name given to a geological epoch where humans have a global ecological impact. Combining critical approaches such as ecocriticism and posthumanism with close reading and archival research, it argues that the Anthropocene requires poetry and the humanities to find new ways of thinking about unfamiliar spatial and temporal scales, about how we approach the metaphors and discourses of the sciences, and about the role of those processes and materials that confound humans’ attempts to control or even conceptualise them. Poetry and the Anthropocene draws on the work of a series of poets from across the political and poetic spectrum, analysing how understandings of technology shape literature about place, evolution and the tradition of writing about what still gets called Nature. The book explores how writers’ understanding of sciences such as climatology or biochemistry might shape their poetry’s form, and how literature can respond to environmental crises without descending into agitprop, self-righteousness or apocalyptic cynicism. In the face of the Anthropocene’s radical challenges to ethics, aesthetics and politics, the book shows how poetry offers significant ways of interrogating and rendering the complex relationships between organisms and their environments in a world increasingly marked by technology.
Poetry and the Global Climate Crisis: Creative Educational Approaches to Complex Challenges (Research and Teaching in Environmental Studies)
by Angela Sorby Amatoritsero Ede Sandra Lee KleppeThis book demonstrates how humans can become sensitized to, and intervene in, environmental degradation by writing, reading, analyzing, and teaching poetry. It offers both theoretical and practice-based essays, providing a diversity of approaches and voices that will be useful in the classroom and beyond. The chapters in this edited collection explore how poetry can make readers climate-ready and climate-responsive through creativity, empathy, and empowerment. The book encompasses work from or about Oceania, Africa, Europe, North America, Asia, and Antarctica, integrating poetry into discussions of specific local and global issues, including the value of Indigenous responses to climate change; the dynamics of climate migration; the shifting boundaries between the human and more-than-human world; the ecopoetics of the prison-industrial complex; and the ongoing environmental effects of colonialism, racism, and sexism. With numerous examples of how poetry reading, teaching, and learning can enhance or modify mindsets, the book focuses on offering creative, practical approaches and tools that educators can implement into their teaching and equipping them with the theoretical knowledge to support these. This volume will appeal to educational professionals engaged in teaching environmental, sustainability, and development topics, particularly from a humanities-led perspective.
Pogue's Basics: Essential Tips and Shortcuts (That No One Bothers to Tell You) About Beating the System
by David PogueWant to know where you can buy $100 iTunes gift cards for $85? Did you know you can pay your taxes by using a cash-back credit card?Why are you still paying $235 a year to rent your cable box?You're leaving money on the table every day, with every transaction you make: changing your oil, withdrawing ATM cash, booking flights, buying insurance, shopping for clothes, squirting toothpaste. But in Pogue's Basics: Money, the third book of this New York Times bestselling series, David Pogue proves that information is money. Each of his 150 simple tips and tricks includes a ballpark estimate of the money you could make or save. Okay, you won't use every tip in the book--but if you did, you'd come ahead by $61,195 a year.
Point and Figure Charting
by Thomas J. DorseyAn up-to-date look at point and figure charting from one of the foremost authorities in the fieldIf you're looking for an investment approach that has stood the test of time--during both bull and bear markets--and is easy enough to learn, whether you're an expert or aspiring investor, then Point and Figure Charting, Fourth Edition is the book for you. Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, this practical guide will help you grow your assets in any market.In this reliable resource, the world's top point and figure charting expert, Tom Dorsey returns to explain how traders and investors alike can use this classic technique--borne out of the irrefutable laws of supply and demand--to identify and capitalize on market trends.Describes, step-by-step, how to create, maintain, and interpret your own point and figure charts with regard to markets, sectors, and individual securitiesExplains how to use other indicators, including moving averages, advance-decline lines, and relative strength to augment point and figure analysisReveals how to use this approach to track and forecast market prices and develop an overall investment strategySkillfully explains how to use point and figure analysis to evaluate the strength of international markets and rotate exposure from country to countryToday's investment arena is filled with a variety of strategies that never seem to deliver on what they promise. But there is one approach to investment analysis that has proven itself in all types of markets, and it's found right here in Point and Figure Charting, Fourth Edition.
Point of Sale: Analyzing Media Retail
by Daniel Herbert Derek Johnson Avi Santo Benjamin Woo Emily West Marc Steinberg Lynn Comella Courtney Brannon Donoghue Ethan Tussey Tim J. Anderson Evan Elkins Erin Hanna Greg Steirer Heikki Tyni Olli Sotamaa Elizabeth Affuso Meredith A. Bak Nasreen RajaniPoint of Sale offers the first significant attempt to center media retail as a vital component in the study of popular culture. It brings together fifteen essays by top media scholars with their fingers on the pulse of both the changes that foreground retail in a digital age and the history that has made retail a fundamental part of the culture industries. The book reveals why retail matters as a site of transactional significance to industries as well as a crucial locus of meaning and interactional participation for consumers. In addition to examining how industries connect books, DVDs, video games, lifestyle products, toys, and more to consumers, it also interrogates the changes in media circulation driven by the collision of digital platforms with existing retail institutions. By grappling with the contexts in which we buy media, Point of Sale uncovers the underlying tensions that define the contemporary culture industries.
Points of Difference: Transforming Hormel
by Richard L. Knowlton Ron BeymaPOINTS OF DIFFERENCE describes how to transform a business in a dying industry into a leadership position in contemporary competitive niches. Hormel Foods did it by totally revamping its approach to management, marketing and technology. The success of this transition is validated by the company's outstanding performance during the past 25 years, and the book's messages are compelling to managers in all industries as American business seeks to redefine itself in the midst of economic crisis.
Poised for Excellence
by Karima Mariama-ArthurThis book is an exceptional resource for leaders at every level across industries. An insightful guidebook comprised of 40 illuminating principles showcasing the fundamental competencies that impact performance in the boardroom and beyond, each chapter includes the following core components: 1) a robust, but succinct discussion introducing each princip≤ 2) key strategies providing straightforward guidance on how to master each princip≤ 3) a selection of thoughtful journal questions that allow for meaningful introspection, and finally, 4) a leadership challenge--a stretch goal--that brings each principle into immediate, scalable focus. Whether a seasoned or emerging leader, each reader will discover useful perspectives contained within each chapter designed to firmly orient their thinking and behavior towards leadership excellence. An enduring resource for circumstances in which every leader will inevitably find him or herself confronting, it will also serve as the "go to" professional development resource for elevating leadership brands and facilitating the necessary trench work required to develop competent and confident leaders regardless of industry or expertise. Different from traditional books that provide a one-dimensional view of what leadership is and do little more than categorize existing traits, Poised for Excellence breaks the mold. It creates the context for understanding leadership development as a holistic process: By focusing on the mastery of fundamental principles structured to develop the whole person through service to self and others, it ignites an evolutionary process that cultivates 360 degrees of effective leadership. It directs readers to stake a bold claim to their success and transform the way they show up in the boardroom and beyond. Poised for Excellence was written to nurture the leadership potential in business leaders who desire to operate in excellence and believe that learning and practice are non-negotiable aspects of leadership success.
Poised for Peak Performance in Healthcare: A Practical Approach to Execute Expense Reduction and Revenue Enhancement Initiatives
by Ali BirjandiThe current healthcare system is under attack by market, government, and consumer forces. To stay solvent, organizations must be performing at the top of their game. This book provides detailed instructions to bring organizations to the next level of performance by teaching all the secrets straight from the healthcare consultant’s playbook in less than 100 days. This book defines the coming challenges in the healthcare environment and provides a 10-step solution to develop the infrastructure for peak performance. These solutions include detailed implementation plans, software, reports, metrics, and the top projects that yield the highest financial rewards. This is the first book of its kind to not just discuss the top strategies, but also provide step-by-step instructions to achieve results. The book defines the strategy, the tactics, the infrastructure, the targets, the solutions, the barriers, and the leadership required to achieve a high performing organization. With these simple instructions, any organization with the will to achieve a brighter future can be poised for success in the next decade in less than 100 days.
Poised for Success: Mastering the Four Qualities That Distinguish Outstanding Professionals
by Jacqueline WhitmoreSecrets to mastering the details that will get you ahead at work, from international etiquette expert and author of BUSINESS CLASS, Jacqueline Whitmore.In the past, the business world favored the aggressive "Type A" personality. But in these unsettled times, being courteous and thoughtful has proven to be a more effective way to win clients and customers and influence others. The competitive advantage depends on your ability to use your emotional intelligence and social graces to take your career to the next level.In POISED FOR SUCCESS, Jacqueline Whitmore states that good business etiquette is important, but she also knows that there is more to becoming invaluable at work than simply mastering good behavior. In order to be poised for success, you must cultivate what Jacqueline calls the four "P" qualities: Presence, Polish, Professionalism, and Passion. These include how to:-Package yourself for success by refining your personal brand-Nurture professional relationships with flair-Master the five ways to make yourself more memorable-Learn the seven unwritten rules of workplace etiquetteWhitmore, using her 15 years of experience as a protocol and etiquette expert, will arm you with the skills to become more self-aware, more confident and comfortable in your own skin, and better able to communicate with others in a credible, authentic manner.