UPSIZING - The Road to Zero Emissions
de Gunter PAULI - Editions Quintessence
THE GOAL
A Process of ongoing improvement by Eliyahu M. GOLDRATT
and Jeff COX
Written in a fast-paced thriller style,
The Goal is
the gripping novel which is transforming management thinking throughout
the Western world. The author
has been described by
Fortune as "a guru to
industry" and by
Businessweek
as a "genius". It is a book to recommend to your friends in
industry - even to your bosses - but not to your competitors.
Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to
try to improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for
disaster. So is his marriage. He has ninety days to save his plant - or
it will be closed by corporated HQ, with hundreds of job losses. It
takes a chance meeting with a colleague from student days - Jonah - to
help him break out of conventional ways of thinking to see what needs
to be done.
The story of Alex's fight to save his plant is more than compulsive
reading. It contains serious message for all managers in industry and
explains the ideas which underlie the Theory of Constraints (TOC)
developed by Eli Goldratt .
IT'S NOT LUCK by Eliyahu M. GOLDRATT
In this sequel to
The Goal, Alex
Rogo faces his most impossible challenge yet. His companies are to be
put on the line. If he succeeds in turning them round they'll be sold :
if he doesn't, they'll be closed down. Either way he and his team are
out of work. And just to add to his problems, his children have become
teenagers. As he grapples to find solutions in business and private
life, the power of Goldratt's influential Thinking Process technique is
revealed.
CITY OF INTELLIGENCES by Sylvie
GENDREAU
Recognized for her leadership in communications and creativity, Sylvie
Gendreau has initiated revolutionary projects based on vanguard ideas
in the organization of work and the use of information technologies. In
this book, she proposes an original process based on her years of
experience in Canada and the United States, as well as her personal
reflections.
In
City of Intelligences, she tells the story of a
company in which women and men joined their imaginations and
intelligence to bring a shared dream into the real world. she presents
a concrete application of her method and shows us it's possible to
reinvent communcations networks, thanks to a humanist culture and the
use of multimedia. Because Sylvie Gendreau believes in the urgency of
creating democratic leadership, her examples inspire us to act.
