| Title | The Goal |
| Author | Eliyahu M. Goldratt |
| Type | Novel, Fiction |
| Year of Publication | 1984 |
| Language | English |
| File Format | |
| Number of Pages | 384 |
| Rating | Click to rate this post! [Total: 1 Average: 5] |
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement is a management-oriented novel by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, a business consultant known for his theory of limitations, and Jeff Cox, the best-selling author, and co-author of multiple management-oriented novels. The Goal was originally published in 1984 and has since been revised and republished. This book can be used for case studies in operations management, with a focus on the theory of constraints, bottlenecks, how to alleviate them, and the applications of these concepts in real life. It is used in management universities to teach students about the importance of strategic capacity planning and constraint management. Time magazine listed the book as one of “The 25 Most Influential Business Management Books.
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The Goal Summary
Written in a fast-paced suspense style, The Goal is a gripping novel that is transforming management thinking across the Western world.
Alex Rogo is a harassed plant manager who works increasingly desperately to try to improve performance. His factory is fast heading for disaster. So is their marriage. You have 90 days to save your plant, or it will be closed by corporate headquarters, with hundreds of job losses. A casual meeting with a student days colleague, Jonah, is needed to help him break with 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 the industry and explains the ideas underlining the Theory of Constraints (TOC) developed by Eli Goldratt.
The Goal Review
Anyone who considers themselves a manager should immediately run out, buy, and devour this book. If you are the only one in your place who has read it, your progress on the road to the top may suddenly accelerate … one of the most outstanding business books I have come across.
About The Book Author Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Eliyahu M. Goldratt was an educator, author, physicist, philosopher, and business leader, but first and foremost, he was a thinker who provoked others to think. Often characterized as unconventional, stimulating, and “a slayer of sacred cows,” he urged his audience to examine and reassess their business practices with a fresh, new vision.
Dr. Goldratt is best known as the father of the Theory of Constraints (TOC), a process of ongoing improvement that identifies and leverages a system’s constraints in order to achieve the system’s goals. He introduced TOC’s underlying concepts in his business novel, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, which has been recognized as one of the best-selling business books of all time. First published in 1984, The Goal has been updated three times and sold more than 7 million copies worldwide. It has been translated into 35 languages.
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