Student Bloopers. All teachers get them in class. All teachers laugh at them and share them with friends. Every teacher swears that they will save them and some day write a book. That is exactly what Jim Womack has done. Each year he collected the best wisdom and wit from his students' writings and compiled them into a highly readable and hilarious look at what happens to History when students get hold of it. Prepare yourself for an amusement park ride through the hallowed themes of History.

When Misquotes Bit You: History Comes Unraveled

Humor & Entertainment

Womack, Jim

Humor

AuthorHouse

"Pain and Suffering are inevitable, but misery is optional."  I once saw this motivational statement on a running shirt.  I liked it and subscribed to it during my time as an ultra marathoner.  When I reunited with my sweetheart from 1967 and married her in 2005, I began to understand that phrase in a new and challenging way. Harriette Burnette and I met and enjoyed a love affair in the summer of 1967.  We lost touch and lived separate lives for thirty-eight years.  During that time we lived very different and challenging lives.  She suffered through a series of painful family and personal losses while raising two children on her own.  I fought battles with depression, alcoholism, and professional dissatisfaction.  Ultimately, after thirty-two years, my marriage ended in a divorce as well. During our separate, but incredibly similar experiences in life, we each held the belief that life still had something special in store for us.  In 2005, through a series of unusual events, I made contact with Harriette after a thirty-eight year hiatus.  Our subsequent reunion, courtship, and marriage made us believe that a power greater than ourselves worked in our lives to fill our needs and work miracles for us.   Little did we know that, when we said, "I do" on that cold day in 2005, we were about to hop on one of life's most frantic, harrowing, and unimaginable rides.  We both discovered the true meaning of pain as well as suffering and learned how our reactions to life's challenges can forever change lives.  We took the pain and suffering, but we decided that misery just could not be an option.  Jim Womack is a native of Botetourt County, Virginia and a graduate of Virginia Tech, where he studied Civil War History under the noted historian Dr. James I Robertson.  Jim taught history at James River High School in Botetourt County for twenty-eight years before retiring in 2003.   From 2000 until 2005, he trained for and ran many ultra marathons in central Virginia and elsewhere as well as traveled and backpacked around the western United States. In 2005, he reunited with his sweetheart from 1967 and entered a new and wonderful life with his new bride, Harriette.  Shortly afterward, he learned that he had cancer and that his life would drastically change.  Together, Jim and Harriette enjoy the providential love which they have found and continue to work together to build a special home for themselves and their families.   As more and more people heard their remarkable story of love lost and love regained, Jim decided to write down their story and share their marvelous journey as a tribute to their individual and collective triumphs over disease and disappointment. In addition to From One Man's Heart, Jim also published a collection of student bloopers entitled When Misquotes Bit You.  He is in the process of writing short stories about his youth in Botetourt County, his outdoor experiences, and his new life in Northern Virginia with Harriette.  He plans to release one new volume each year.

From One Man's Heart

Self-Help

Motivational

Dog Ear Pub Llc

Womack on Lean Management

Lean Enterprises Inst Inc

<p>When the first edition of Seeing the Whole was published in 2003, the world was in a mad rush to outsource and offshore in pursuit of drastically lower piece prices. Today the situation is very different; currencies have shifted, labor costs in many low-wage countries have risen, and the potential for squeezing further price reductions from suppliers is largely exhausted. What's more, high product quality and rapid response to changing demands have proved elusive along unwieldy, opaque supply chains. Seeing the Whole Value Stream provides managers with a proven method for understanding and improving the value-creating process. By identifying all the steps and time required to move a typical product from raw materials to finished goods, the authors show that nearly 90 percent of the actions and 99.9 percent of the time required for the value stream's current state create no value. Applying the method to a realistic example, the authors show how firms sharing a value stream can create a win-win future in which everyone, including the end consumer, can be better off. The workbook goes step-by-step through an improvement process that converts the traditional value stream of isolated, compartmentalized operations into an ideal future-state value stream in which value flows from raw materials to customer in just 6 percent of the time previously needed. The dramatically improved value stream also eliminates unnecessary transport links, inventories, and handoffs, the key drivers of hidden connectivity costs. The information in the 108-page book is supported by multiple diagrams, charts, and maps. In response to feedback asking for examples in other sectors and questions about how to understand costs more accurately, five essays have been added to the book for this new edition. These essays demonstrate how real companies have taken on the challenge of improving their extended value streams working in collaboration with their suppliers and customers.</p>

Seeing the Whole Value Stream

Business & Money

Jones, Dan

Industries

<p>In 12 new essays, ranging from the provocative to the practical and written specially for the second edition of Gemba Walks author and management expert Jim Womack reflects on the past 30 years of lean, and assesses the current state of lean today.He also shares thoughts on how lean thinking and practice can continue to make the world a better place by gaining traction in areas such as government and healthcare, provides practical guidance for how leaders everywhere can realize the full benefits of a lean management system, and shares hope for continued improvement on the path to better work and more value.Over the past 30 years, Womack has developed a method of going to visit the gemba at countless companies and keenly observing how people work together to create value. He has shared his thoughts and discoveries from these visits with the lean community through a monthly letter. With Gemba Walks second edition, Womack has selected and re-organized his key letters, as well as written 12 new essays.Gemba Walks shares his insights on topics ranging from the application of specific tools, to the role of management in sustaining lean, as well as the long-term prospects for this fundamental new way of creating value. Reading this book will reveal to readers a range of lean principles, as well as the basis for the critical lean practice of: go see, ask why, and show respect.Womack explains:• whatever happened to Toyota and what happens next to lean?• how lean got its name 25 years ago; a special essay co-authored by Jim and John Krafcik, president and CEO, Hyundai Motors America• work, management, and leadership -- what is the real work of the lean leader?• don’t offshore or reshore –leanshore• why companies need fewer heroes and more farmers (who work daily to improve the processes and systems needed for perfect work and who take the time and effort to produce long-term improvement)• how “good” people who work in “bad” processes become as “bad” as the process itself• how the real practice of showing respect comes down to helping workers frame and solve their own problems• how the short-term gains from lean tools can be translated to enduring change from lean management.• how the lean manager has a “restless desire to continually rethink the organization’s problems, probe their root causes, and lead experiments to test the best currently known countermeasures”By sharing his personal path of discovery, Womack sheds new light on the continued adoption and development of the most important new business system of the past fifty years. His journey will provide courage and inspiration for every lean practitioner today.</p>

Gemba Walks Expanded 2nd Edition

Economics

Lean Enterprise Institute, Incorporated

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