Kevin Thompson

Solutions for Agile Governance in the Enterprise (SAGE) is the essential guide to understanding, implementing, and perfecting Agile product development throughout your organization, from one of the leading experts in software and hardware project management and planning.

Agile Project, Program, and Portfolio Management for Development of Hardware and Software Products

Solutions for Agile Governance in the Enterprise (Sage)

We’ve all heard the advice “Pace yourself. Save energy and finish strong.” It sounds simple enough, so why is it so hard? Why do even supremely conditioned elite athletes mismanage their energy supplies and fail to finish strong? Pacing: Individual Strategies for Optimal Performance examines the latest science, research, and application in search of answers. This guide explores the role of pacing in sports, the most common strategies used, the factors that influence effectiveness, and key considerations for today’s athletes and coaches. You’ll also discover these aspects: • How environmental variables, such as temperature and terrain, can affect performance • How to choose the best pacing strategy for any event • How to use pacing to defeat an opponent • The role the brain plays in pacing strategies Part I explains the biological and psychological underpinnings of pacing science, including the six commonly used pacing strategies that are discussed in detail throughout the book: all-out, positive, even, negative, parabolic, and variable. Part II shows how to apply the science, offering pacing recommendations and considerations for time-dependent sports such as running, triathlon, and swimming and exploring the role of pacing in racket sports and several team sports. Combining scientific research and real-world profiles of elite athletes and coaches, Pacing: Individual Strategies for Optimal Performance shows coaches and athletes how to develop the ideal pacing plan for every competition.

Individual Strategies for Optimal Performance

Pacing

Hegel’s Elements of the Philosophy of Right offers an innovative and important account of normativity, yet the theory set forth there rests on philosophical foundations that have remained largely obscure. In Hegel’s Theory of Normativity, Kevin Thompson proposes an interpretation of the foundations that underlie Hegel’s theory: its method of justification, its concept of freedom, and its account of right. Thompson shows how the systematic character of Hegel’s project together with the metaphysical commitments that follow from its method are essential to secure this theory against the challenges of skepticism and to understand its distinctive contribution to questions regarding normative justification, practical agency, social ontology, and the nature of critique.

The Systematic Foundations of the Philosophical Science of Right

Hegel’s Theory of Normativity

Deanna Dicken

With this book as your guide, you can progress from basic database design to the more advanced techniques of database communication in just one weekend. On Friday evening, start with the basics of SQL as you set up a sample database. On Saturday, practice database communications as you cover queries, the SELECT command, and relational database creation. Pull it all together on Sunday with optimization techniques and security triggers. End the weekend with a practical look at how programmers use SQL to make their jobs easier and how popular programming languages can access your database.

Learn SQL in a Weekend

A finalist in the National Indie Excellence 2008 book awards, this book was written for anyone who suffers from sexual dysfunction, depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia (or cares for someone who does). Medicines for Mental Health is the first book to provide detailed and readable information about all psychiatric medications, and other medical treatments, for these mental illnesses. Medicines cuts through jargon, demystifies mental illness, and explains how treatments work. It goes beyond current fads to cover important medications you need to know about, including many that will be new to your doctor.

The Ultimate Guide to Psychiatric Medication

Medicines for Mental Health

Kevin J Thompson Mpa

Does your organization deliver good customer service? Most organizations believe they do but in reality their customer service is transactional at best. The desire for your organization to stand out from the crowd, be recognized as a market leader and beat the competition can be achieved through transformational service culture change. "Everyone Is A CEO" combines the concepts of organizational leadership and service culture change in a framework where everyone develops unforgettable experiences for your customers. The combination of these concepts is revealed in the book's title where CEO stands for Customer Experience Originator. Are you interested in leveraging the uniqueness of your organization adopting the Customer Experience Originator strategies to create exceptional customer experiences?Kevin Thompson has more than 25 years experience in leadership and helping organizations transform their service cultures into unforgettable experiences for their customers. With a background in healthcare management and financial services, Kevin is uniquely positioned as a thought leader. He is inspiring and challenges organizational leadership and staff to alter their mindset and embrace a new paradigm. Kevin holds a Six Sigma Black Belt in Process Improvement, a Masters in Public Administration, and is a Distinguished Toastmaster, as well as Past Chapter President and member of the National Speakers Association Chapter Leadership Committee.Open the book and let Kevin take you through the steps of creating exceptional customer experiences.

Customer Experience Originator

Everyone Is a CEO

Since birth, Kevin had always been told that he was a girl but after fourteen years of confusion, depression, and hopelessness Kevin figured out that he was transgender. Self-Made Man is an autobiography detailing life events of a black man who transitioned from female over the course of twenty years. In Book 1, you will see small signs from Kevin's childhood that foreshadow his new statuses in gender and sexuality. Watch Kevin's life unfold in the series, Self-Made Man, as he begins to figure out who he really is.

Autobiography of a Black Transgender Man

Self-Made Man

Lester Embree

Lester E. Embree

This volume is a collection of phenomenological investigations of the political domain. The essays analyze basic concepts such as action, community, and the relation of the political to the ethical, investigate fundamental issues such as the nation-state, leadership, sovereignty, and responsibility, and they examine the convergence of these matters as exemplified in racial discrimination. The volume also includes discussions of the often-neglected work of such important contributors to this field as Alfred Schutz and Paul Ricoeur.

Phenomenology of the Political

This volume is a collection of phenomenological investigations of the political domain. Its aim is to present recent examinations of political matters and to foster a renewal of this sort of inquiry in phenomenology generally. Although it has often gone unrecognized, investigations of this sort have been a part of the phenomenological project since its inception. Two phases can be identified: the first governed primarily by the methods of realistic and constitutive phenomenology, and the second under the guidance of existential and hermeneutical approaches. Standard accounts of the history of phenomenology begin, of course, with the publication of Husserl's Logische Untersuchungen (1900-1901) in which for the first time he publicly developed and applied his distinctively descriptive approach-the so-called method of eidetic analysis with its unique emphasis on the concept of evidence understood as intention fulfillment-to the fields of logical and mathematical systems. But those around him in Gottingen quickly saw the innovative character of this method and began employing it in a wide variety of other areas of research: literature, sociology, ethics, action theory, and even theology, for example.

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