Includes bibliographical references (page 194) and index.

Ken Iverson led Nucor Corporation from near oblivion to its current place as America's third-largest steel company. In the process, he showed a once-faltering U.S. steel industry the road back to global competitiveness. Plain Talk unveils the rationale that makes Nucor production employees the best paid workers in the steel business, while giving Nucor the industry's lowest labor costs; lets Nucor operate a $3.8 billion corporation with a headquarters staff of just twenty-two people (including clerical help) and just four layers of management, from the CEO to the front-line worker; makes Nucor a runaway leader in innovation with no R & D department and no corporate engineering group.--Derived from book jacket.

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