Bücher von Mark Stallard

Essential tools and insights from the world of implementation consulting Implementation consulting is the spear at the sharp end of the management consulting industry. It is where procrastination and report-writing go to die. It is where the sheer doing of change predominates. There are fact-based tools and approaches employed by implementation consultants which are now well known to clients across the world who have been engaged in implementation projects. Those fact-based tools and many key insights are in this book. FIRST FACTS Fact-based decision-making allows effective managers and leaders to emerge at all levels. Facts can be both easy and hard to come by, yet there is a key set of facts (information) that every business needs. We show you what those facts are, how to get them and what to use them for, so that as far as possible your decisions are grounded in reality. THEN DOING First facts, then decisions, then doing. Doing is the only part that ultimately matters. Otherwise, don't bother. Here we show you the tools that get things done. Mark Stallard is an implemention consultant who has been in this role for over thirty years on two continents and ten countries. He splits his time between West Wales and Asia. This is his first book.

Beginning with the first official football game played by K-State in 1896, the purple-clad gridders always struggled to find respectability. By the end of the 1980s, the team was mired in a 30-game winless streak and considered the worst college football team in America.Then the turn around.Bill Snyder took over the head coaching duties at K-State in 1989, and within five seasons did something many thought impossible, if not miraculous: he turned Kansas State into not only a winning program, but a dominant contender in the world of college football.From Wildcats to Powercats.Test your trivia knowledge with questions about players, coaches and big games, from George Maddox and Pappy Waldorf to Michael Bishop and Bill Snyder. From Independence Bowl to the Fiesta Bowl. Complete with hundreds of questions, facts and photos.