Secondhand Business & Management Bargain Book Box SP4295

Secondhand Business & Management Bargain Book Box SP4295

Eighteen business books built around Eliyahu Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints: The Goal, It’s Not Luck, Critical Chain, three Dettmers, Scheinkopf, Schragenheim, Debra Smith, Deming and Goldratt, plus Senge’s Fifth Discipline, Belbin’s Management Teams, The Power of the 2x2 Matrix, Group Model Building and The Unbounded Mind. A working library for someone who runs a factory, a project or an MBA course.

1. The Nudge — Sonya Driver — The Eco Tan founder’s raw organic business manual: how a dumped single mum built a global tanning brand in eight years. Australian, hardback, with the gold award stickers.
2. Breaking the Constraints to World-Class Performance — H. William Dettmer — Goldratt’s thinking processes applied to whole organisations, by the leading TOC consultant. Hardback, ASQ Quality Press.
3. Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints: A Systems Approach to Continuous Improvement — H. William Dettmer — The standard textbook on the thinking processes: current reality trees, evaporating clouds, future reality trees, with worked examples. The book TOC practitioners learn from. Hardback.
4. The Power of the 2x2 Matrix — Alex Lowy & Phil Hood — More than fifty classic four-box models, from the BCG matrix to Covey’s urgent/important, and how to build your own. Hardback.
5. Group Model Building: Facilitating Team Learning Using System Dynamics — Jac A.M. Vennix — How to get a management team to build a system-dynamics model together and believe it. Wiley hardback; academic and practical.
6. Real Time Strategic Change — Robert W. Jacobs — How to involve an entire organisation in fast and far-reaching change: the large-group intervention method. Hardback.
7. Thinking for a Change: Putting the TOC Thinking Processes to Use — Lisa J. Scheinkopf — A step-by-step on the five thinking tools, from the St. Lucie Press APICS series. The clearest introduction to the method.
8. Management Dilemmas: The Theory of Constraints Approach to Problem Identification and Solutions — Eli Schragenheim — Case studies solved with TOC, by Goldratt’s long-time collaborator. St. Lucie Press APICS.
9. Deming and Goldratt: The Theory of Constraints and the System of Profound Knowledge — Domenico Lepore & Oded Cohen — The two great systems thinkers combined into a ten-step process, the Decalogue. For the reader who’s read both.
10. Critical Chain — Eliyahu M. Goldratt — Why projects run late and over budget, and the answer: stop padding every task and buffer the chain instead. The business novel that invented critical chain project management.
11. The Unbounded Mind: Breaking the Chains of Traditional Business Thinking — Ian I. Mitroff & Harold A. Linstone — Why the problem is never the problem you think, and how to think about it differently. Oxford.
12. It’s Not Luck — Eliyahu M. Goldratt — Alex Rogo, now running three companies, has to save all three from being sold, using the thinking processes. The sequel to The Goal, and the one that teaches the tools.
13. The Goal — Eliyahu M. Goldratt & Jeff Cox — Alex Rogo has ninety days to save his plant, and a physicist called Jonah asks him what the goal of a business actually is. The novel that invented the Theory of Constraints, taught in every operations course since 1984. Second edition, Gower.
14. The Measurement Nightmare: How the Theory of Constraints Can Resolve Conflicting Strategies, Policies, and Measures — Debra Smith — Why cost accounting fights throughput, and what to measure instead. St. Lucie Press APICS.
15. The Fifth Discipline — Peter M. Senge — Systems thinking, personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, team learning: the art and practice of the learning organisation. Revised and updated with a hundred new pages; the most influential management book of the 1990s.
16. Persuasion Engineering — Richard Bandler & John LaValle — The NLP co-founder on sales and business language and behaviour. Hardback with the gold-and-black jacket.
17. Management Teams: Why They Succeed or Fail — R. Meredith Belbin — The nine team roles, Plant to Completer-Finisher, from the Henley research. The book behind every team-role questionnaire you’ve ever filled in.