Right First Time: Using Quality Control for Profit

Business & Money

Price, Frank

Management & Leadership

Gower Pub.Co.

An easy-to-read, informative, often hilarious but ultimately educational look at the working life that explores aspects such as bullying, fear, harrassment, and "life after managerial death." Price, an independent consultant, looks at options open to those with drive to "enrich their lives by enlarging their experience." Interesting reading for anyone who's ever had to work for a living. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Loving Work

<p>Since the publication of Frank Price's book Right First Time the business landscape of the Western World has undergone an upheaval - a quality revolution. This explosion of interest in the management of quality has not just affected the manufacturing sector but has influenced all areas of industry, and with diverse effects. In his new book, the author not only examines the content of quality thinking, the statistical tools and their application to business processes, he also explores the context and the cultural climate in which these tools are put to work, and the environment in which they either succeed or fail. The core of the book consists of a critique of Deming's points - which the author refers to as the new religion of quality - and an examination of the pitfalls which act as constraints on quality achievement.</p>

Right Every Time: Using the Deming Approach

Gower Publishing Ltd

<p>This remarkable book combines simplicity of treatment with depth of coverage and is written in a refreshingly original style. Dispelling the mystique which so often surrounds the subject, and without indulging in complex mathematics, the author explains how to achieve low scrap rates, zero customer rejections and the many other benefits of systematic quality control.</p>

Right First Time (Using Quality Control for Profit)

Routledge

The radical changes in society over the past eighty years have seen many unusual men take the tide and sail to success. Sir Frank Price is one of them, and by hard graft, good luck, and a certain amount of 'irritable councillor syndrome' he has earned success and approbation in many areas of our national life. From the slums of Hockley in 1920s Birmingham to lunch at Buckingham Palace and familiar terms with Royalty - 'Here comes trouble' is how Prince Philip described him - is not every socialist's lot. But Frank shows he's a fighter. As Mayor, as businessman and as public servant, Frank touched gloves with many of the Ministerial demons of the day - notably Dick Grossman, Labour's intellectual bully boy. Denis Howell, a former friend, lets Frank down and is unforgiven; yet when Harold Wilson gives him a chance to give Denis the drop, and maybe pick up a good job and a peerage by the way, Frank refuses. It's not in the nature of the man to let go of a good thing, or hang on pointlessly to a bad. Without education, a commanding presence, a moneyed family or a union apparatus, Frank Price made it to the top in his own city, was knighted at forty-three, and met many key players on the world's stage. He also stuck it out as Chairman of the British Waterways Board in order to 'put something back'. Here is a record of a great life. It's nuts and bolts, but it's the broad picture too. It'll amuse, it'll provoke and annoy - but it'll certainly give plenty back.

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Right First Time: Using Quality Control for Profit

Loving Work

Right Every Time: Using the Deming Approach

Right First Time (Using Quality Control for Profit)

Right First Time: Using Quality Control for Profit

Being There