While there are many books specific to change management or continuous improvement, there are few, if any, books that address the intersections between change management and continuous improvement. After 30+ years as a change agent implementing lean and process improvement, the author’s hypothesis on why continuous improvement efforts “stick” sometimes and other times not is that many leaders of these efforts fail to understand the importance of change management and the critical intersect...

Do you feel a disconnection from the traditional values that once defined the American spirit?You're not alone. Kyle A. Stone brings you a deep dive into the virtues, values and traditions that have molded generations.What You'll Discover:The bedrock principles that have shaped the American journey.How destructive ideas are celebrated at the cost of age-old virtues.Strategies to equip your...

The Anthropocene and the Undead describes how our experience of an increasingly erratic environment and the idea of the undead are more closely linked than the obvious zombie horde signaling the end of the world. In fact, as described here, much of how we understand the anthropocene both conceptually and in practice involves undead entities from the past that will not die, undead traumas that rise up and consume the world, and undead temporalities that can never end. Fifteen origi...

The Divines have shown Their Will.AND IT'S ABSOLUTE.The Order of the Orphys Knights is failing. And this failure bears a cost.After losing its influence and the power and might of its Ancient beasts, what was once an esteemed order of knights became but a tarnished and mocked symbol throughout the continent. Yet neither the Order nor the people seem to notice the shifts brought by the winds.The dreadful promises they bri...