Getting Home

Author : Liz McCartney
Publisher : Lean Enterprise Institute
ISBN 13 : 1934109584
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Getting Home written by Liz McCartney and published by Lean Enterprise Institute. This book was released on 2019-03-22 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the flood waters of Hurricane Katrina receded around New Orleans, they revealed unimaginable destruction and a traditional disaster recovery process that was Byzantine, costly, and far too slow for the victims who just wanted to get home. Getting Home is the inspiring story of a defense lawyer and a school teacher who left their careers to rebuild homes for desperate survivors but wound up reconstructing the entire process for rebuilding after disasters. Authors Liz McCartney and Zack Rosenburg describe how SBP, the disaster relief nonprofit they founded, partnered with Toyota to apply the lean principles of the Toyota Production System to rebuild homes and lives following hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods throughout the U.S. and its territories. For lean thinkers, this story offers a fresh look at lean tools being used in non-traditional settings. With a short-term volunteer workforce, a layer of middle management that turns over every 10 months, and constantly shifting sources of income, SBP seemed like it could never escape a constant cycle of emergencies and triumphs. Using lean tools, however, Liz and Zack got their work processes under control and found the time to think deeply about the nature of disasters and rebuilding and found themselves with a clearer mission. The book also details an innovative, 9-step blueprint for how private industry, relief agencies, volunteers, and all levels of government can work together to dramatically shrink the time between when disasters hit and victims get home in a prompt, efficient, and predictable way. ___ "In these pages, you will read and be inspired by the spirit of a defense lawyer and a school teacher who left their careers to rebuild homes for the most desperate survivors of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. What Liz McCartney and Zack Rosenburg quickly discovered about this work is that the duration of time between disaster and recovery inflicts an immense toll on people. They were determined to do better and Toyota wanted to help. By sharing the Toyota Production System with SBP, we helped them reduce the home rebuilding time by about 50%." - Jim Lentz, CEO, Toyota Motor North America, Inc

Author : Aurora Levins Morales
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Getting Home Alive written by Aurora Levins Morales and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rosario Morales and Aurora Levins Morales are mother and daughter--feminists and radicals, Puerto Rican and American and Jewish--patterning their voices into a call and response across generations, geography, politics, and cultures."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Kayleen Schaefer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101986123
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Text Me when You Get Home written by Kayleen Schaefer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Text me when you get home.' After joyful nights out together, female friends say this to one another as a way of cementing their love. It's about safety but, more than that, it's about solidarity. A validation of female friendship unlike any that's ever existed before, Text Me When You Get Home is a mix of historical research, the author's own personal experience, and conversations about friendships with women across the country. Everything Schaefer uncovers reveals that these ties are making us, both as individuals and as society as a whole, stronger than ever before.

Author : YZ Chin
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1936932172
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Though I Get Home written by YZ Chin and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A welcome read in American contemporary literature. Though I Get Home is an intimate and complex look into Malaysian culture and politics, and a reminder of the importance of art in the struggle for social justice.” —Ana Castillo, author of So Far from God and prize judge In these stories, characters navigate fate via deft sleights of hand: A grandfather gambles on the monsoon rains; a consort finds herself a new assignment; a religious man struggles to keep his demons at bay. Central to the book is Isabella Sin, a small-town girl—and frustrated writer—transformed into a prisoner of conscience in Malaysia’s most notorious detention camp. Winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize, YZ Chin’s debut reexamines the relationship between the global and the intimate. Against a backdrop of globalization, individuals buck at what seems inevitable—seeking to stake out space for the inner motivations that shift, but still persist, in the face of changing and challenging circumstances. YZ Chin was born and raised in Taiping, Malaysia. She now lives in New York, working as a software engineer by day and a writer by night.

Author : David Weekley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781885539359
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Buy a Home Without Getting Hammered written by David Weekley and published by . This book was released on 2001-03-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephanie Perry Moore
Publisher : Attack on Earth
ISBN 13 : 1541525752
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Getting Home written by Stephanie Perry Moore and published by Attack on Earth. This book was released on 2018 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High school senior Bailey Clarke and her younger brother, Blake, must trust strangers to help them reach their father's home when an alien invasion causes their bus to break down.

Author : John Clellon Holmes
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504022300
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Get Home Free written by John Clellon Holmes and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chief chronicler of the Beat Generation portrays the hangover that followed the giddy early days of the movementin this poignant follow-up to Go Dan Verger and May Delano share a loft in New York City, but the passion that brought them together has turned brittle and sour, much like the boozy parties and late-night discussions that so thrilled them a few years ago. The brightest lights of their circle have moved on—visionary poet David Stofksy to a job in advertising, novelist Gene Pasternak to Mexico—and Dan and May eventually decide to do the same, abandoning each other to return to their respective hometowns. On the Connecticut seashore, Dan contemplates the trip to Europe that he has always promised himself, but finds his dissipated habits hard to break. Killing time with Old Man Molineaux, the charismatic town drunk, Dan recognizes what his life might look like in 30 years. Meanwhile, May returns to Louisiana and is surprised to discover Paul Hobbes, a New York friend, playing piano in a bar on the African American side of town. At a wild, drug-fueled party in a dilapidated antebellum mansion, May comes face-to-face with the complicated racial dynamics of the Beat movement. Artful and authentic, melancholy yet tender, Get Home Free pays tribute to a generation that, in daring to break with the patterns of the past, profoundly influenced the future of American culture.

Author : Charles.G. Fournel
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1398411663
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Quest to Get Home Bound written by Charles.G. Fournel and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the midst of the Second World War and rationing is tightening everyone’s belts. Yet down the dark alleyways of the French capital Paris, you would find a man who could get you anything on the underground market. When a captured American ranger receives news from home, he knows he must escape from the Nazi prison camp in East Germany and embark on a quest to get to a neutral land, so he may return to his wife in America. Unexpectedly the ranger finds himself becoming mixed up in the Paris black-market syndicate. Can he survive long enough to afford his escape? Can he be homebound once again?

Author : P. Boelhouwer
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1607504669
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home Ownership. Getting In, Getting From, Getting Out. written by P. Boelhouwer and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home ownership sectors in most European countries have grown in size. Whatever assets European households have acquired in recent decades, real estate appears to form a significant element in wealth portfolios. Frequently, national governments have been active in promoting the shift-in tenure balance. The general question pursued in this book is about the gains and losses accruing to individual households by virtue of their position as home owners. The focus, here, is on financial gains and losses. This book is also concerned with the losses, in the form of repayment risk, related to, difficulties that some households may experience in meeting housing loan repayment schedules. The immediate background to this volume is the Conference on Housing Growth and Regeneration. Hosted by the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, it was held under the auspices of the European Network of Housing Researchers.

Author : J. Doling
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1607501864
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home Ownership. Getting In, Getting From, Getting Out. Part II written by J. Doling and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2006-06-29 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home ownership sectors in most European countries have grown in size. Whatever assets European households have acquired in recent decades, real estate appears to form a significant element in wealth portfolios. Frequently, national governments have been active in promoting the shift in tenure balance. The general question pursued in this book is about the gains and losses accruing to individual households by virtue of their position as home owners. The focus, here, is on financial gains and losses. It also concerns the losses, in the form of repayment risk, related to difficulties that some households may experience in meeting housing loan repayment schedules. The immediate background to this volume is the Conference Housing in Europe: New Challenges and Innovations in Tomorrow's Cities, held in Reykjavik, Iceland. Hosted by the Urban Studies Institute of the University of Iceland and Centre for Housing and Property Research, Bifröst School of Business, it was held under the auspices of the European Network of Housing Researchers.