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Alex Rogo has had a great year: he was
promoted to executive vice-president of UniCo with the responsibility
for three recently acquired companies. His team of former
and new associates is in place and the future looks secure
and exciting. But then there is a shift of policy at the
board level. Cash is needed and Alex's companies are to
be put on the block. Alex faces a cruel dilemma. If he successfully
completes the turnaround of his companies, they can be sold
for the maximum return, but if he fails, the companies will
be closed down. Either way, Alex and his team will be out
of a job. It looks like a lose-lose situation. And as if
he doesn't have enough to deal with, his two children have
become teenagers!
As Alex grapples with problems at work and
at home, we begin to understand the full scope of Eli Goldratt's
powerful techniques, first presented in The Goal,
the million copy best seller that has already transformed
management thinking throughout the Western world. It's
Not Luck reveals more of the Thinking Processes, and
moves beyond The Goal by showing how to apply them
on a comprehensive scale.
This book will challenge you to change the
way you think and prove to you that it's not luck
that makes startling improvements achievable in your life.
Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt is an internationally
recognized leader in the development of new business management
concepts and systems, and acts as an educator to many of
the world's corporations. He has been described by Fortune
as "a guru to industry" and by Business Week
as a "genius." He is the originator of the Theory
of Constraints (TOC) and his ideas have revolutionized the
way an increasing number of companies work.
In addition to his pioneering work in
manufacturing management, he holds patents in other areas,
ranging from medical devices to temperature sensors.
Dr. Goldratt is a frequent contributor
to industrial and scientific journals and has lectured extensively
to companies and at universities in Britain, continental
Europe and the USA.
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