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Management

The One Minute Manager
Ken Blanchard

The first of four books that are the core to our team management. This one sets up the concepts of goal setting, praising and reprimanding.

Putting the One Minute Manager to Work
Ken Blanchard

Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager
Ken Blanchard

This book deals with the critical concept of flexing leadership style as a person moves through the different skill and motivational levels related to a task. The concept is critical when implementing change and developing new skills.

The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams
Ken Blanchard

This book takes the concepts for Leadership and the One Minute Manger and extends them to teams. We see the four phases of team development in all successful change projects.

Who Moved My Cheese
Ken Blanchard

A simple story that clearly highlights the need for change. A classic.

The Conative Connection:
Acting on Instinct
Kathy Kolbe

Pure Instinct:
Business' Untapped Resource
Kathy Kolbe

Manufacturing

Crack the WIP
Best Practices for Work Cell Reconciliation
Louise Beauchamp

Because work in process (WIP) is usually a very small part of the total inventory, it tends to be paid the least attention. More attention should be paid to WIP inventory because of the many variables introduced by the production processes.

This book is intended to shed light on that black hole we call WIP from an inventory accuracy standpoint. In order to demystify this black hole, it is important that we isolate it and its propensity to wreak havoc with overall inventory accuracy.

Inventory accuracy affects everyone. Today's economy forces us all to look at working more efficiently with fewer resources. Inaccurate inventory will steal valuable time from many people and will slow everything down. In today's world, can you afford anything less than a best practice?

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The Goal
Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Critical Chain
Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Material Requirements Planning: The New Way of Life in Production and Inventory Management
Joseph Orlicky

The book that started it all. Joe Orliky’s book does a great job of defining the logic and mechanics of MRP.

Orlicky's Material Requirements Planning
George W. Plossl

The Black Swan:
The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Taleb

A Revolution in Manufacturing: The SMED System
Andrew P. Dillon

Kaizen: The Key To Japan's Competitive Success
Masaaki Imai

Kanban Just-In-Time at Toyota: Management Begins at the Workplace
By Productivity Press

Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production
Taiichi Ohno

ERP: Making it Happen: The Implementors' Guide to Success with Enterprise Resource Planning
Thomas F. Wallace & Michael H. Kremzar

This book is not primarily about computers and software. Rather, its focus is on people-and how to provide them with superior decision-making processes for customer order fulfillment, supply chain management, financial planning, e-commerce, asset management, and more. This comprehensive guide can be used as a selective reference for those, like top management, who need only specific pieces of information, or as a virtual checklist for those who can use detailed guidance every step of the way.

A Study of the Toyota Production System: From an Industrial Engineering Viewpoint
Shigeo Shingo & Andrew P. Dillon

Here is Dr. Shingo's classic industrial engineering rationale for the priority of process based over operation improvements for manufacturing. He explains the basic mechanisms of the Toyota production system in a practical and simple way so that you can apply them in your own plant.

Marketing & Sales

The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
Clayton M. Christensen

The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do
Clotaire Rapaille

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
W. Chan Kim

The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
Chris Anderson

Sales & Operations Planning

Orchestrating Success:
Improve Control of the Business with Sales & Operations Planning
Richard C. Ling

The foundation text for S&OP. We have been using this one for years.

World Class Sales & Operations Planning: A Guide to Successful Implementation And Robust Execution
Donald H. Shelton