books by John Shook

books by John Shook

books:

John Shook

Managing to Learn: Using the A3 Management Process to Solve Problems, Gain Agreement, Mentor, and Lead

John Shook

Lean Enterprise Institute, 2008

Excellent Introduction to the Use of the A3 plan for problem solving
In a readable and accessible style, John Shook provides an excellent introduction to the "A3" plan for problem solving. It is the most accessible and understandable beginners level book I have seen on the subject. Pascal Dennis' "Getting the Right Things Done" also ...

The Cambridge School of Pragmatism (History of American Thought)

Thoemmes Press, 2006

Cambridge pragmatism was recognizably different from the instumentalism of Dewey's Chicago school. Until James's death in 1910, commentators on pragmatism typically either wrote about James's pragmatism or Dewey's instrumentalism, but not both. Only until the 1910s did many philosophers begin to treat pragmatism as a fairly unified set of ...

Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Add Value and Eliminate MUDA

Mike Rother, John Shook

Lean Enterprise Institute, 1999

The Best Value Stream Instruction Book ever written...
This is THE VSM book for people wanting to learn Value-stream mapping. Although it is a bit expensive, it is well worth it. I recommend this book to every Business Process Improvement class I teach and have never received anything but positive feedback from the people ...

Training to See: A Value Stream Mapping Workshop: A Value Stream Mapping Workshop (Lean Enterprise Institute)
Mike Rother, John Shook

Lean Enterprise Institute, 2000

When Mike Rother and John Shook first realized the power of value stream mapping in the mid-1990s they began to offer workshops on this invaluable technique.

Making Materials Flow: A Lean Material-Handling Guide for Operations, Production-Control, and Engineering ...

Rick Harris, Chris Harris, ...

Lean Enterprise Institute, 2003

Short on info for plants that also fabricate components
While this book does a good job of defining how to improve efficiency and delivery performance through improvements in material transfer in an assembly area, it completely ignores plants that must juggle fabrication along with assembly....which is a substantial number ...

Making Housing Happen: Faith-based Affordable Housing Models

Chalice Press, 2006

Safe and Sanitary Housing
Wayne Lusvardi rating seems to be based on his disagreement with Jill's philosophy, and is not a review of the book itself. He is more concerned about the loss of his property values than with the squalor that the poor and lower middle class experience. He blames ...

Transformers and Philosophy (Popular Culture and Philosophy)

Open Court, 2009

Transformers began with toys and a cartoon series in 1984 and has since grown to include comic books, movies, and video games ? its science fiction story has reached an audience with a wide range second only to that of Star Wars. Here, in Transformers and Philosophy, a dream team of philosophers pursues the fascinating questions posed by ...

Lean Lexicon

Compiled by the Lean Enterprise Institute, Chet Marchwinski, ...

Lean Enterprises Inst Inc, 2003

Lean REFERENCE book
If you are involved in training an organization in lean principles and want to provide an unbiased, well defined glossary on lean concepts and terms commonly used--this is an excellent book. First and foremost, it is a REFERENCE BOOK--it sits on your desk or in your ...

Television Field Production and Reporting (5th Edition)

Fred Shook, John Larson, ...

Allyn & Bacon, 2008

Required reading for my new staff at our new in-house studio
This book focuses on the most important part of making television and video - the story. It's an incredible how-to book with solid techniques and tricks-of-the-trade that are described by working professionals. As the senior producer of the second studio I've built ...

Pragmatic Naturalism & Realism

Prometheus Books, 2003

Pragmatism, the philosophy native to America, has once again grown to prominence in philosophical debate around the world. Today, the type of pragmatism that is proving to be of greatest value for fostering discussions with other worldviews is pragmatic naturalism. The fourteen provocative essays in this original collection are all by philosophers ...

F.C.S. Schiller on Pragmatism and Humanism: Selected Writings, 1891-1939 (Contemporary Studies in Philosophy ...

Humanity Books, 2008

Schiller (1864-1937) was the primary representative of the pragmatist movement in Europe for three decades. He was also a major figure in the personal idealism movement, and a proponent of incorporating evolution into philosophical thinking.

Managing to Learn: Using the A3 Management Process to Solve Problems, Gain Agreement, Mentor, and Lead
John Shook, 2008

A Companion To Pragmatism (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)
John R. Shook, Joseph Margolis

Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

"A Companion to Pragmatism", comprised of 38 newly commissioned essays, provides comprehensive coverage of one of the most vibrant and exciting fields of philosophy today. It is unique in depth and coverage of classical figures and their philosophies as well as pragmatism as a living force in philosophy. It contains chapters that include ...

Contemporary Pragmatism Volume 5, Number 1. June 2008

Rodopi, 2008

Dewey's Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality (The Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy)

John R. Shook

Vanderbilt University Press, 2000

A Work of Surpassing Importance
The current renaissance of American pragmatism, and John Dewey's philosophy in particular, began two decades ago with Richard Rorty's refashioning of Dewey as a postmodernist who renounces the "professional philosophy" of metaphysics and epistemology for the fluidity ...