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.
The book is centered around Alex Rogo, a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. 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.
One of Eli Goldratt's convictions was that the goal of an individual or an organization should not be defined in absolute terms. A good definition of a goal is one that sets us on a path of ongoing improvement. Pursuing such a goal necessitates more than one breakthrough. In fact it requires many. To be in a position to identify these breakthroughs, we should have a deep understanding of the underlying rules of our environment.
About the authors
Eliyahu Moshe Goldratt (March 31, 1947 – June 11, 2011) was an Israeli business management guru. He was the originator of the Optimized Production Technique
, the Theory of Constraints
(TOC), the Thinking Processes
, Drum-Buffer-Rope
, Critical Chain Project Management
(CCPM) and other TOC derived tools.
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.
The book is centered around Alex Rogo, a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. 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.
One of Eli Goldratt's convictions was that the goal of an individual or an organization should not be defined in absolute terms. A good definition of a goal is one that sets us on a path of ongoing improvement. Pursuing such a goal necessitates more than one breakthrough. In fact it requires many. To be in a position to identify these breakthroughs, we should have a deep understanding of the underlying rules of our environment.
About the authors
Eliyahu Moshe Goldratt (March 31, 1947 – June 11, 2011) was an Israeli business management guru. He was the originator of the Optimized Production Technique
, the Theory of Constraints
(TOC), the Thinking Processes
, Drum-Buffer-Rope
, Critical Chain Project Management
(CCPM) and other TOC derived tools.