《目标》(The Coal)是一本奇特但有趣的书。作者原来是物理学方面的学者,却以小说形式写了一本生产管理的书。书的内容叙述一位厂长在面对工厂和家庭的双重压力下,如何以系统思考的方式领导他的干部一步步地解开限制(打破生产的瓶颈),终于在短短不到三个月的时间将工厂从亏损转变为赚 The Coal is a curious but interesting book. The author, originally a scholar in physics, wrote a book on production management in the form of a novel. The book describes how a factory director, under the dual pressures of factory and family, can lead his cadres in a systematic way to step by step to solve the restriction (to break the bottleneck of production) under the dual pressures of factories and families and finally in less than three Months to change the factory from loss to profit