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The Goal by Eli Goldratt

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market today in various shapes, sizes and flavors, including production management books that promise to revolutionize a firm in just seven "easy" steps -- or nine -- ten, but  the trend does seem to keep the process down to a moderately low number. The following discussion will examine a rather remarkable "how-to" business management book with the intent of  showing how it can be applied by the student researching this topic to his or her own workplace. To the plethora of business books that have inundated the market  over the last several decades, Eli Goldratt brought a unique perspective in his 1984 text The Goal, a book that has not only stood the test of time but  virtually initiated the "theory of constraints" school of production management (Elton, 1998). Goldratts book is unique because it recognizes the complexity of actually putting the advice of business management book  into practice. This author recognizes the complexity of this process in a rather unique manner -- by putting his text into the form of a novel. However, this  turns out to be the ideal way to express what Goldratt wants to tell his readers. By using this form, the reader can travel with plant manager Alex Rogo through  the process of trying to increase productivity at his factory in order to safe his own job and the jobs of his co-workers. In a highly readable and comprehensible manner,  Goldratt "shows" the reader, rather than merely preaching to the reader, how his ideas can make a difference. While Goldratt is specific in showing how his theory of constraints  fits Rogos manufacturing plant, this system is applicable to many situations. In fact, put simply, the theory of constraints explains how to boost the performance of any process, manufacturing or