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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

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  • 1984
  • #Business
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
@EliyahuMGoldratt
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Jeff Cox
@JeffCox
(Author)
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Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal is the gripping novel which is transforming management thinking throughout the Western world. Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager... Show More

Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal is the gripping novel which is transforming management thinking throughout the Western world.

Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try and improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. So is his marriage. He has ninety days to save his plant—or it will be closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. It takes a chance meeting with a colleague from student days—Jonah—to help him break out of conventional ways of thinking to see what needs to be done.

The story of Alex's fight to save his plant is more than compulsive reading. It contains a serious message for all managers in industry and explains the ideas which underline the Theory of Constraints (TOC) developed by Eli Goldratt.

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Number of Pages: 384

ISBN: 0884271781

ISBN-13: 9780884271789

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Alex Wieckowski @AlexAndBooks_ · Sep 26, 2021
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The best book on this subject that I’ve found is a manufacturing book called “The Goal.” It has two core messages: First, you can improve a system by removing local bottlenecks. And second, optimizing individual parts of a system can make its overall performance worse.
Balaji Srinivasan @balajis · Jun 22, 2021
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Ok, here's one. For any sufficiently complex process (manufacturing, support queues, etc) you want at least one person with no assigned task, standing back and staying flexible like a free safety. Goldratt's book is excellent on this non-obvious concept:
Alex Forbes @alexforbes__ · Jul 7, 2022
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