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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement Paperback – June 1, 2014

by Eliyahu M. Goldratt (Author), Jeff Cox (Author)

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Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal, a gripping novel, is transforming management thinking throughout the world. It is a book to recommend to your friends in industry - even to your bosses - but not to your competitors. Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try 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 professor 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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"A survey of the reading habits of managers found that though they buy books by the likes of Tom Peters for display purposes, the one management book they have actually read from cover to cover is The Goal." -- The Economist<br \><br \>"Anybody who considers himself a manager should rush out, buy and devour this book immediately. If you are the only one in your place to have read it, your progress along the path to the top may suddenly accelerate...one of the most outstanding business books I have ever encountered." --Punch Magazine

"Like Mrs. Fields and her cookies, The Goal was too tasty to remain obscure. Companies began buying big batches and management schools included it in their curriculums." --Fortune Magazine

"This theory provided a persuasive solution for factories struggling with production delays and low revenues." --Harvard Business Review

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Eliyahu M. Goldratt is an internationally recognized leader in the development of new business management concepts and systems, and acts as an educator to many of the world's corporations.

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Paperback: 362 pages
Publisher: North River Press; 30th Anniversary Edition edition (June 1, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0884271951
ISBN-13: 978-0884271956
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.1 x 8.9 inches
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but I had to be out a week for a business trip and read 15 chapters easily on a flight

Bycrystalpumpkinpupon April 7, 2017

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I bought this for a class I'm taking. I have considerable lean experience, but had never read this particular book. It's a very fast read. We were only allowed to read 5 chapters at a time for class, but I had to be out a week for a business trip and read 15 chapters easily on a flight. I could have finished the entire book if I was allowed to. Quick read and great insight into lean/theory of constraints, especially for a newbie.
I plan keep it at work and suggest it for co-workers.
My husband also is a machine operator and where he works they have all read this and do many things referenced in the book. He is planning to read it.
I now know why a previous boss would say "Let's find our Herbie". 17+ years in the industry and I had no clue until I read this.

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don't buy the kindle version

ByDavid Y.on September 11, 2015

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Good read. Not just a business book, but about problem solving in general. Other reviews will tell you more. Kindle version is terrible. Many missing words. Can figure most of it out from context, but it disturbs the flow, and, well, you just shouldn't have to. 4 starts for the book, 2 for the kindle screw up.

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Goldratt is a business novel and is a great book to read to prepare for industry people

ByAmazon Customeron May 18, 2017

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The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt is a business novel and is a great book to read to prepare for industry people. As an industrial engineering major student, I really enjoyed when I was reading. This book tells a story, which is really easy to understand. The main character for this book is Alex Rogo, who is the plant manager for UniCo Manufacturing. He was told that he only has three months to run this plant to a good state by Bill Peach, a company executive. Alex Rogo met his college physicist professor, Jonah, in the airport. Jonah is an expert on manufacturing management. He tried to help Alex Rogo to solve plant problems with a lot phone call meetings. As a reader and an engineering student, I understand Alex Rogo really wants to keep this company for sake of many employers and his family. Because he knew that his wife just new to this town, he doesn’t want to her to move again, and plus he grew up in this old town, Bearington.
Because Alex Rogo has spent a lot of time to solve plant problems, he was too busy to spend time with his family. Therefore, his marriage got trouble as well. His wife, Julie, feels lonely and boring living in this old town, and she left her family.
I think The Goal is a great book that can be used in management colleges to teach students about the importance of strategic capacity planning and constraint management.
The book involves some aspects in a manufacturing process. In the book The Goal, Jonah teaches Alex Rogo by using the Socratic method. All the time, when Alex asks for help from Jonah, Jonah would never give him answer directly; instead, Jonah poses a question to him, which makes him to think and solve problems. Eventually, Alex finds out the Socratic method to solve his marital problem and proposes a solution to solve his plant problem

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Funny, real

ByChickenson September 1, 2014

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Funny, real, relevant, and useful for middle and upper management. If you want to present this to your team though, make sure you aren't actually representing the villain in this book and try to present it to your team as if you are the hero. That is what our boss did, and it was hilarious. All of the things that this corporation was doing wrong, and all of the negative ways the big fig heads were treating their staff was exactly what was going on in our team, and the book was being presented to us as if the company was not parallel with those themes. Clearly our boss was disconnected with the reality of the working situation. Good book to read. I would add this to the set of books I have my new managers read to optimize success. I'll give you a hint; it includes "the one minute manager" and "start" by John Acuff.

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ByGiovanni G.on May 18, 2017

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I guess I’ll start by saying that I actually really enjoyed this book. I was forced to read it out of my own free will but I’m glad that I was because there are some good lessons to learn from The Goal. Originally, I thought that the Theory of Constraints would be presented in a boring, technical way but it’s actually told in the form of a story. The story is basically about a plant manager, named Alex Rogo, whose plant is struggling to survive. Upper management gives Rogo three months to turn things around and he does by getting advice from his old college professor who happens to be studying about the science of organizations. Ultimately, Rogo learns that the goal of any company is to make money (which I guessed by the way) and he simplifies that goal by defining three parameters (throughput, inventory, and operating expenses), which he uses to make decision about the plant’s operations.

The novel is easy to read and the examples that are given make the technical aspects of the book understandable, especially the part where Rogo realizes how bottlenecks work when he takes his son on the boy scout trip.

Something else I should mention is that throughout the novel, you get some insight into Rogo’s personal life and the problems he’s having at home with his wife because of how busy he is at work. At first I thought that whole thing would detract from the book but by the end you come to realize that our work lives and our personal life are closely intertwined and one will always affect the other so it’s important to try to find that balance between your personal life and your life at work.

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