"The Goal" and the Theory of Constraints

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This paper reviews the book "The Goal" by Israeli-born physicist and business manager Eliyahu Goldratt. The paper describes Goldratt's attempts to provide an interesting read as well as offer information that is basic to today's management system. The author praises Goldratt's book , as it uses simple-to-understand examples to explain his theory of business constraint, and shows the value of thinking by using the Socratic method to answer questions and encourage people to think out of the box and share best practices.

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"Beyond the role of this book in an historical sense, is the fundamentals that it stresses. By using a simple-to-understand example of boyscouts, it demonstrates the means for speeding up a process--in this case, hiking. It looks at production as an overall system of integrated parts, or the whole company working together to bring results. There are different organizational units working together and becoming greater than the whole, rather than each standing separately and doing its own thing. In addition, it shows the value of thinking by using the Socratic method to answer questions and encourage people to think out of the box and share best practices."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Goldrutt, Eliyahu. The Goal. Great Barrington, MA: North River Press, 1984.

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