To be a successful leader, you need to get results. To get results, you need to set priorities. This book can help you do a better job of setting priorities, recognizing the personal values that motivate your decision making, the probable trade-offs and consequences of your decisions, and the importance of aligning your priorities with your organization's expectations. In this way you can successfully meet organizational objectives and consistently produce results.

This book examines methods for selecting topics and setting priorities for clinical practice guideline development and implementation. Clinical practice guidelines are "systematically defined statements to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances." In its assessment of processes for setting priorities, the committee considers the principles of consistency with the organization's mission, implementation feasibility, efficiency, utility of the results to the organization, and openness and defensibilityâ€"a principle that is especially important to public agencies. The volume also examines the implications of health care restructuring for priority setting and topic selection, including the link between national and local approaches to guidelines development.

Make time for what matters! In todays busy world, people hardly find time to do what makes life worth living. The challenge for all is learning to prioritize in the midst of competing demands on time and other resources. But the man or the woman who has learned to prioritize their life will be more productive, less stressful, can have extra time for vital things in life, such as family, friends, career, God, and ultimately make it to heaven after death. This book is about learning to set your priorities right. It covers a range of important topics. For examples, one of our duties as humans is to know the right season for everything and making that season a priority while keeping a closer eye on other activities in our lives. In this life, there are good things and there are also things that are not good. It is your responsibility, and fundamental duty, to test everything and hold on to that which is good. The world is experiencing unprecedented violence and wickedness. Therefore, there is the need for people to turn from their sins and to begin to love themselves, love other people, and ultimately love God, their creator.

Jack Welch took a company that was already flying high and rocketed it into the stratosphere. What did he use as the launching pad? The Law of Priorities, of course.

An intelligibility-based approach to teaching that presents pronunciation as critical, yet neglected, in communicative language teaching.

The provision of safe drinking water has been an important factor in the improvement of the health status of U.S. communities since the turn of the last century. Nonetheless, outbreaks of waterborne disease and incidences of chemical contamination of drinking water continue to occur. Setting Priorities for Drinking Water Contaminants recommends a new process for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to use in deciding which potential drinking water contaminants should be regulated in public water supplies to provide the greatest protection against waterborne illnesses. The book covers chemical and microbiological contaminants and includes a historical review of past approaches to setting priorities for drinking water contaminants and other environmental pollutants. It emphasizes the need for expert judgment in this process and for a conservative approach that considers public health protection as the first priority.