TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Preface   The Fastest in the West -- and the Greenest

Introduction   Lean and Clean Management

CHAPTER 1
The American origins of Lean And Clean

CHAPTER 2
systems: The Cycles of Life

CHAPTER 3
Labor and Lean And Clean

CHAPTER 4
A Focus on Prevention: The Case of Compaq Computer

CHAPTER 5
Energy Efficiency

CHAPTER 6
Lean And Clean Design for Office Productivity

CHAPTER 7
Becoming Lean And Clean: A Systems Approach

CHAPTER 8
Lean And Clean Design for Factory Productivity

CHAPTER 9
The Future Is Lean And Clean

Conclusion   Management, the Environment and Jobs

Appendix   You Just Don't Understand: U.S. Misperceptions of Japanese Success

Notes

Bibliography

Index

LEAN and CLEAN MANAGEMENT:

How To Boost Profits and Productivity by Reducing Pollution

Lean and Clean Management ISBN 1-56836-037-1

Joseph J. Romm, Kodansha 1994, $27.00, plus shipping & handling

The old notion that what is good for the environment is bad for business is rapidly being replaced by a new awareness that only companies that work with, not against, the environment can thrive. In this visionary book, energy expert Joseph J. Romm gives us an inside look at companies that have improved performance and quality while reducing their impact on the environment to show how fiscal and environmental responsibility go hand in hand-and how this lean and clean thinking not only saves money and jobs, but dramatically boosts profits. Lean and clean management is the next step for any business pursuing total quality, and this book goes beyond the catchphrases to deliver real results.

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Before his current appointment as Special Assistant for Policy and Planning to the Deputy secretary of Energy, Joseph J. Romm was a research scholar at Rock mountain Institute and taught at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT, and is author of The Once and Future Superpower: How to Restore America's Economic, Energy, and Environmental Security.

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