The Rambler Jeffery And Nash Truck Story From Kenosha To The World 1904 1955

Auto historians and readers interested in business history will enjoy Storied Independent Automakers.

In this eagerly awaited follow-up to PM 101, Francis M. Webster Jr., a.k.a. the Olde Curmudgeon, offers a fascinating and very readable guide to getting your project right the first time. Among other issues, he discusses four aspects of quality in projects, the intricacies of risk management, and 16 ways to reduce project duration. PM 102 is sprinkled with real-life examples and keen observations born of the author's 40-plus years in the project management field. Four subjects make this book unique. The discussion of the full range of resources available to you includes materials management and the effective use of executives and staffs of your organization. The clear distinction between the project and the product of the project provide a sharper focus on managing aspects of each. The discussion of quality provides a practical framework for minimizing scope creep. The pragmatic discussion of reporting and control presents tested ways of ensuring that you know what is happening on your project, maintaining urgency throughout the project, and completing the project for a satisfied client. Webster's most intriguing advice relates to the messy and unpredictable human side of project management. For instance: Talk to the project team members about their hopes and ambitions. Then, provide opportunities that will advance their objectives. This simple act unleashes a surprising degree of energy and interest in work. You will enjoy the exploits of Sam (Samuel or Samantha) in gaining an understanding of Modern Project Management. He has served the Project Management Institute (PMI(R)) in a variety of ways, including serving as editor-in-chief from 1985 until 1994. He is a PMI Fellow and isrevered as a true PMI Historian. Longtime members of the Institute know he was also the persona behind PM Network's Olde Curmudgeon.

In World War I the American motor vehicle industry was tested by the sudden appearance of vast transport challenges. The nation's immense manufacturing capabilities and abundant natural resources combined with increased standardization and mass production to enable the industry to meet the military's needs. Motor vehicles and aircraft were quickly cemented as the most influential military tools of the early twentieth century. This book both describes the development and use of a wide range of specialized motor vehicles during World War I and analyzes how their advent indelibly altered modern warfare and transportation.

More than 250,000 students take the GMAT every year. This title includes six full-length practice tests in the book and six more on the CD-ROM. It contains a special section on choosing the right MBA program, getting admitted to the top business schools, and surviving in school.

The Turnaround Experience is a study of 16 attempted business turnarounds, each studied for twenty years. Nine were successful and seven unsuccessful, the differences owing to the strategies employed, the managerial skills, and character traits on the part of the people involved.The proposition advanced here is that the successful turnarounds focuses involved conscientious, carefully orchestrated efforts aimed at improving the firm's effectiveness as an efficient low-cost producer of increasingly differentiated quality products simultaneously. This study also revealed that successful turnarounds involve leaders who focus on operations, possess strong ethical values, have good personal reputations, and follow the principles of fair play in dealing with employees, creditors, suppliers, and customers.The 16 cases were drawn from actual documented histories occurrences spanning more than 80 years from 1902 to 1988 in the automobile and agricultural equipment industries where much material is available on the events and the characteristics of the people involved.

The 4th volume of this comprehensive work features hundreds of serial killers from Sacramento to Soviet Russia—plus numerous unsolved cases. The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is the most complete reference guide on the subject, featuring more than 1,600 entries about the lives and crimes of serial killers from around the world. Defined by the FBI as a person who murders three or more people with a hiatus of weeks or months between murders, the serial killer has presented unique and terrifying challenges to have walked among us since the dawn of time—a fact this extensive record makes chillingly clear. The series concludes with Volume Four, T-Z. Entries include the Terminator Anatoly Yuriyovych Onoprienko; Trailside Killer David Joseph Carpenter; Vampire of Sacramento Richard Trenton Chase; and the Voroshilovgrad Maniac Zaven Almazyan; plus the unsolved cases of the Adelaide Child Murders; the Axeman of New Orleans; the Chillicothe Killer; the Dead Women of Juarez; the Korea Frog Boy Murders; and the Volga Maniac.

Covers Compact cars manufactured by Hudson, Kaiser, Nash, Studebaker, Willys: models such as Jet, Henry J, Rambler, Lark and Aero. Over 150 large B&W photos, details, basic specs, historic text. Excellent primer, and quick reference guide.

Now revised and updated, this book tells the story of how the automobile transformed American life and how automotive design and technology have changed over time. It details cars' inception as a mechanical curiosity and later a plaything for the wealthy; racing and the promotion of the industry; Henry Ford and the advent of mass production; market competition during the 1920s; the development of roads and accompanying highway culture; the effects of the Great Depression and World War II; the automotive Golden Age of the 1950s; oil crises and the turbulent 1970s; the decline and then resurgence of the Big Three; and how American car culture has been represented in film, music and literature. Updated notes and a select bibliography serve as valuable resources to those interested in automotive history.