Bøker av Alan Robinson

Alan Robinson is a living, breathing, running miracle. In fact some might say he shouldn't even be alive today, let alone running marathons. He admits that for a good portion of his life he drank too much, hung out with the wrong crowd and used drugs. He was a former gang banger and ex-con with no real future ahead of him and he was going nowhere fast. That all changed in 1990 when an accident left him paralyzed from the neck down. Despite the negative prognosis, he underwent aggressive rehabilitation and kept a positive outlook. Not only did he learn to walk again but now Alan Robinson is running marathons! He credits his miraculous recovery to the fantastic team of doctors and therapist who worked diligently with him. But far more that that he sees his recovery as a gift from God. Herein is his story of recovery, redemption and life that we can all learn from. God is good all the time and Alan Robinson is one of the best ever examples of that.

Community care has recently undergone a fundamental revision. Local authorities have new duties, and people in need of care and their carers have new rights. In addition, England and Wales have gone their separate ways in setting up community care systems for the two countries. This book brings together the law in both England and in Wales, and highlights the differences between them. As well as setting out the law on assessment and the provision of services, it also outlines the options available for paying for care. The book also considers some of the wider issues which tend to affect community care, such as mental capacity, access to a person in need, and the interface between health and social care.ABOUT THE AUTHORAlan Robinson qualified as a solicitor in 1972 and has spent the whole of his working life involved with two areas of law - welfare law and work with charities and voluntary organisations. He retired from legal practice in 2010, having been running his own firm for a number of years, and now works part-time as a consultant and trainer. Alan has worked in and taught community care law from its inception in 1993.

Most companies, if they solicit employee ideas at all, essentially just set up a suggestion box, which employees know from experience is where ideas go to die. So nothing happens. But innovation is not an option - it's the key to survival. And innovation needs new ideas. So where are those ideas going to come from? Using numerous examples, Robinson and Schroeder argue that the employees who interact directly with your customers, make your products, and provide your services are in the best position to see where problems exist and what improvements and new offerings would have the most impact. Robinson and Schroeder explain how leaders can build the kind of idea-driven company capable of implementing fifty to a hundred or more ideas per employee per year. Drawing on their work with companies worldwide, they show what's needed to put together a management team open to grassroots innovation and describe the strategies, policies, and practices that encourage - and those that discourage - employee ideas. They detail exactly how high-performing idea processes work and how to design one customized for your organization - including advice for teaching people how to come up with new ideas. The best ideas may come from the bottom, but they have to be systematically solicited from the top.

Reveals how the army, the government and the churches responded to the challenges of war, leading to innovation that was unknown in peace time such as the appointing women as Chaplains' Assistants. This book is intended for those who are interested in British military history, church history and religious studies.

Offers a way to learn about the work of Shigeo Shingo, co-creator (with Taiichi Ohno) of just-in-time.

The fact is, because they're the ones doing the day-to-day work, front-line employees see a great many problems and opportunities that their managers don't. But most organisations do very poorly at tapping into this extraordinary potential source of revenue-enhancing and savings-generating ideas.Drawing on extensive research and experience in more than 300 organisations around the world, Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder show precisely how to take advantage of the virtually free, perpetually renewable resource of employee ideas.True excellence and sustainable competitive advantage-in every area, from productivity, to responsiveness, keeping costs low, quality and service delivery-is only possible with the attention to detail that comes from getting and implementing large numbers of ideas from employees.

The author explores the impact on poetic practice in the 1970s and 1980s of recent theoretical developments, offering a criticism of the work of Seamus Heaney and of poets including Michael Hofmann, reassessing life on Mars and providing retrospective surveys of Fleur Adcock and others.