COMPANIES TODAY ARE UNDER MORE PRESSURE THAN EVER to increase
productivity. In this BusinessWeek bestseller, Jason Jennings
identifies the world''s most productive companies and reveals their
secrets--none of which, remarkably, include layoffs. The companies
he features are surprise standouts in their industries,from
Ryanair, Which generates three times more profit per employee than
the legendary Southwest Airlines, to Nucor, a steel firm with an
annual growth of seventeen percent for the past thirty-one years
and the highest paid workers in the business. Drawing on these and
other amazing companies, Jennings presents his readers with solid
advice on how to streamline businesses, eliminate waste, and
inspire greatness within a workforce. Full of unexpected results
and irrev-erent observation, Less Is More offers the key to ramping
up the "productivity meter" in any industry.
目錄:
Foreword
Introduction
FOCUS
1 A Simple BIG Objective
2 The Hard Work Begins
STREAMLINE
3 The First Tactic: The Truth
4 Destroy the Bureaucracy and Make It Simple
5 Get Rid of the Wrong Executives and Managers... Fas
6 No Layoffs
7 WTGBRFDT?
8 The Real Financial Drivers
9 Systematize Everything
10 Continuous hnprovement
11 Compensation
DIGITIZE
12 The Plug-in Myth
MOTIVATE
13 Keeping Everyone on the Same Productivity Page
EMBODY
14 A Lean Spirit
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Index