Tompkins, Peter

Tompkins, Peter Secrets of the Great Pyramid With an Appendix by Livio Catullo Stecchini Allen Lane, 1973, USA Turner, Sharon The History of the Anglo-Saxons ... 

Tompkins, Peter. Secrets of the Great Pyramid. New York Galahad Books, 1997. This lavishly illustrated book is a detailed treatment of the building of the Pyramid of Cheops, with numerous diagrams indicating how the monument was surveyed. 

Peter Buckley is the quintessential example of Tompkins s hiring philosophy in action the placing of an essentially unqualified but ingenious person in a position of great responsibility—running several of Esprit s international operations, with great success. 

Often performance measurement is something new to the maintenance operation, but it is highly recommend that a performance-measurement system be put in place. Justification for investments in maintenance best practices must be validated. One approach used by Tompkins Associates has been to help clients create a maintenance excellence index (MEl) that includes 10-15 key performance indicators. These metrics, with agreed-upon weighted values, are developed into a composite total performance value (Peters 1998). The metrics that are selected should cover areas such as ... 

Peters, R. W. (1994a), Achieving Real Maintenance Return on Investment, Tompkins Associates, Raleigh, NC. 

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