Profit Beyond Measure
Subtitle: Extraordinary Results through Attention to Work and People
Contributors: Peter M. Senge (Foreword)
Publisher: Free Press
Published: November 6, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780684836676
Subjects: Industrial management; Managerial accounting; Development - Business Development; Systems And Analysis In Management; Profit; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Management Science; Business/Economics; Management - General; Entrepreneurship; Business & Economics / General; Production management; Cost control
First sentence: Managers of business organizations will find as a result reading this book that they can no longer accept without question the conventional wisdom that says an organization will reach its bottom-line goals best if it drives its employees and suppliers to achieve financial targets in their work.
Description: "Profit Beyond Measure details how two extremely profitable manufacturers, Toyota and the Swedish truck maker Scania, have rejected the traditional mechanistic mindset of managing by results that generates waste. Johnson and Broms explain how Toyota and Scania achieve their legendary cost advantage through a revolutionary concept they call managing by means (MBM).

Instead of being driven to meet preconceived accounting targets, the production systems of Toyota and Scania are governed by the three precepts guide all living systems: self-organization, interdependence, and diversity."--BOOK JACKET.