Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-439) and index

pt. I. The Dynamic Management Environment -- Ch. 1. The Modern Business Environment -- Ch. 2. Principles of Management in the Dynamic Environment -- Ch. 3. The Pareto Rule, the Focusing Table, and the Focusing Matrix -- pt. II. New Approaches in Management -- Ch. 4. Managing the System by Its Constraints -- Ch. 5. Management by Constraints in a Bottleneck Environment -- Ch. 6. Managing by Constraints When the Market Is the Constraint -- Ch. 7. Focused Current Reality Tree -- Ch. 8. Resolving Managerial Conflicts -- Ch. 9. The Efficiencies Syndrome -- Ch. 10. Evils of Long Response Times -- Ch. 11. Reducing Response Times -- Ch. 12. The Complete Kit Concept -- Ch. 13. Performance Measures and Managerial Control -- Ch. 14. The Effects of Fluctuations, Variability, and Uncertainty on the System -- Ch. 15. Evils of Traditional Cost Accounting -- Ch. 16. Marketing, Costing, and Pricing Considerations in Decision-Making Processes -- Ch. 17. Quality Management and Process Control -- pt. III. Strategy and Value Creation -- Ch. 18. Strategy, Positioning, and Focusing -- Ch. 19. Value Creation -- pt. IV. Applying the Focused Management Approach -- Ch. 20. Value-Focused Project Management -- Ch. 21. Managing Research and Development -- Ch. 22. The Focused Management Approach in Logistics -- pt. V. Perspective and Implementation -- Ch. 23. Our Managerial Credo

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