The Goal book Summary OverviewĪlex, the manager of a UniCo plant, gets transferred back to his small hometown of Bearington with his family. Time Magazine listed the book as one of “The 25 Most Influential Business Management Books”. The Goal is used in more than 60 colleges to teach students about the importance of constraint management. Very powerful concepts were delivered in an easy to understand way that was entertaining. I really liked the boy scout hike that demonstrated the idea of a constraint with Herbie and the match game that demonstrated variability. 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.” From publisher North River Press The story of Alex’s fight to save his plant is more than compulsive reading.
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. He has ninety days to save his plant-or it will be closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try improve performance. It is a book to recommend to your friends in industry-even to your bosses-but not to your competitors. “Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal, a gripping novel, is transforming management thinking throughout the world. It’s nice to have someone understand what YOUR going through. I think if you can explain a situation as well or even better than someone involved, it draws them in. I get the same response from my 9 Challenges ebook where I apply the concepts in the The Goal to custom job shops and machine shop scheduling. Eli received many letters and emails stating something similar. So why is The Goal so popular? I think because it seems that Eli spent time in your plant documenting what was happening. You can find more information on flow and flow based scheduling <– here.
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You can find a full, how to description of Throughput Accounting <– here. Throughput Accounting – This is the Theory of Constraints approach to accounting and measures including T,I, and OE.You can find a full, how to description of drum buffer rope <– here. Drum Buffer Rope – This is the Theory of Constraints approach to operations and scheduling.
There are 3 main Theory of Constraints concepts introduced in The Goal. And if the Rich Dad Poor Dad’s Nielsen data is wrong, as I suspect, this also puts The Goal as the bestselling business book of all time per Nielsen data. If The Goal has sold over 6 million copies up to 2014 and if many copies are passed to 4 other people and there are millions of pirated copies in China and other places, that certainly puts The Goal in the running for the most read business book of all time. Please note that I’ve added the data in red. The data in this table looks suspect since Rich Dad Poor Dad has estimated sales lower than the Nielsen data and the 7 Habits has as huge estimated sales range, but as I said this data is hard to acquire. Here’s some stats compiled by on bestselling business books.
The publisher, North River Press, has indicated on the 30 th anniversary edition (2014) that over 6 million copies have been sold. There, of course, is no hard evidence of this. With The Goal, for each one purchased it was passed to 4 different people to read. Eli also explained another phenomenon that occurs – he said that most business books are purchased but only 1 in 4 are actually read. And pirated copies have been found in other languages around the world. I say probably because it’s difficult to track worldwide sales. The Goal is probably the most read business book of all time - in the world. This turned out to be a great thing for Eliyahu Goldratt and a big missed opportunity for Jeff Cox. He also explained that his co-author wanted to get paid a flat guaranteed fee for his work. In the account I heard, he said it took talking to over 30 publishers before finding one that would take the risk. Eliyahu Goldratt or Eli would tell a story about publishers passing on his book because it was a business book and a “love story”, and they did not know what shelf to put it on.
The path to publishing The Goal book was difficult.
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