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How Managers Improve a Services Business Using Goldratt's Theory of Constraints

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The Wartime Story of Dr Jim Rickett

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Jim Rickett kept a diary of his work as a family doctor during the blitz of 1940/41. His work as a surgeon at the local hospital in Emsworth was acceptable and routine at the time, but is now unthinkable by modern standards. His practice was near Portsmouth which was targeted in regular bombing raids. He tells a compelling story as the bombing intensified in 1941 putting the local area under ... Read more

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