Free Press: 1051 books
The Value Profit Chain
Treat Employees Like Customers and Customers Like
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
James Heskett, Earl Sasser, and Leonard Schlesinger reveal powerful new evidence that paying close attention to the employee-customer relationship will enable any organization to be a low-cost provider and achieve superior results -- proving that you can have it all, a goal thought inadvisable just...
Diversity: Leaders Not Labels
A New Plan for a the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
Stedman Graham, bestselling author of You Can Make It Happen, teaches that in the 21st century your talent and skills above all else will define your value. In Diversity: Leaders Not Labels, Graham shows you how to break out of the box that keeps you from growing to your full potential, and reveals...
Results from the Heart
How to Instill Commitment from Your Employees By Helping Them to Fully Develop Their Talents
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Results from the Heart introduces a new and helpful approach to improving job performance, improving job satisfaction, and helping organizations better respond to the rapid changes that are an inherent part of today's business environment. Mr. Suzaki recognizes that a motivated and engaged workforce...
The Machine That Changed the World
The Story of Lean Production-- Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2007
The classic, nationally bestselling book that first articulated the principles of lean production, with a new foreword and afterword by the authors.
When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors. Twenty years later Toyota passed...
Shoptimism
Why the American Consumer Will Keep on Buying No Matter What
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
In this smart, engaging book, Lee Eisenberg, best-selling author of The Number: A Completely Different Way to Think about the Rest of Your Life, leads us on a provocative and entertaining tour of America's love/hate affair with shopping, a pursuit that, even in hard times, remains a true national...
by Richard J. Schonberger
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
In his best-selling book Japanese Manufacturing Techniques, Richard J. Schonberger revolutionized American manufacturing theory and, more important, practice. In that breakthrough book, he revealed that Japanese manufacturing excellence was not culturally bound. Offering the first demystified explanation...
Do It Smart
Seven Rules for Superior Information Technology Performance
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1999
A decade ago, manufacturing companies had visions of paperless offices, automated plants, and virtual enterprises. But the euphoria quickly evaporated when these visions failed to materialize. Now, from in-depth interviews in a worldwide survey of seventy manufacturing firms, a research team from...
New Shop Floor Management
Empowering People for Continuous Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 1993
In this first comprehensive departure from the time-and-motion dictums of Frederick Taylor's Shop Management that have influenced management practices for most of this century, Kiyoshi Suzaki offers a framework for successfully conducting business at its most crucial point-the shop floor. Drawing...
Competing Against Time
How Time-Based Competition is Reshaping Global Mar
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1990
Today, time is the cutting edge. In fact, as a strategic weapon, contend George Stalk, Jr., and Thomas M. Hout, time is the equivalent of money, productivity, quality, even innovation. In this path-breaking book based upon ten years of research, the authors argue that the ways leading companies manage...
Fast Cycle Time
How to Align Purpose, Strategy, and Structure for
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Today, tens of thousands of companies are struggling to become "time-based" competitors, inspired by such corporations as Motorola, General Electric, Citicorp, and a myriad of others who have cut production time in half-or more. But until now, the literature has focused on the theory and...
by James F. Robeson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1994
The Logistics Handbook encompasses all of the latest advances in warehousing and distribution. It provides invaluable "how to" problem-solving tools and techniques for all the ever-increasing logistical problems managers face -- making it the most complete and authoritative handbook to date.
Special...
Let's Fix It!
Overcoming the Crisis in Manufacturing
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2001
No company is built to last, argues world-renowned manufacturing guru Richard J. Schonberger. In this devastating indictment of current manufacturing practices, Schonberger submits a four-part revolutionary plan to solve the manufacturing crisis for good.
From his statistically reliable database...
The 4 Disciplines of Execution
Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
An insightful new book from the multimillion-copy bestselling author Sean Covey and the FranklinCovey organization based on their work with hundreds of thousands of employees and large companies to unveil the essential disciplines proven to help businesses and individuals realize their most important...
Lean Thinking
Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Expanded, updated, and more relevant than ever, this bestselling business classic by two internationally renowned management analysts describes a business system for the twenty-first century that supersedes the mass production system of Ford, the financial control system of Sloan, and the strategic...