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This paper summarizes and critically reviews the book. It explains how "The Goal" is written as a novel about a fictitious manufacturing plant and a fictitious manager named Alex Rogo, who has three months to turn his struggling, money-losing plant around or face plant closure. It explains that the book is a business-orientated guide book on a very wide range of business topics.

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"The book is well written and very easy to read, even though it covers some quite complicated and complex principles. By using examples from the plant and from Alex's personal life, the authors make their points effectively, by showing how Alex implements them and makes them work. The book has a happy ending, but Alex has to work for it, and as the reader follows him through the process, it makes it more real, and helps the reader understand it more fully. This is an interesting approach to a business text, but it works. Most business and inspirational books are rather dry reading, but following Alex through his fictional adventures is more appealing and more realistic. More business books should follow this example, and create fictional worlds for the reader that they can then apply to their own particular circumstances. If there was anything to criticize about this book, it is the personal details of some of the employees. A manager should know these things, but they sometimes bog the book down."

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