A fully dramatized version of the practical guide to business in fictional form offers an ensemble cast, accompanied by sound effects and music, that reveals how businesses can enhance productivity and provide personal fulfillment. Book available.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Could have been a 5 page article:
The main point of the book has some good lessons mostly revolving around process effeciency. However, the lessons could be written down in detail in a 5 page article. Instead, he has to include a whole fictional story around these lessons. While he may have good business ideas, M. Goldratt is not a good fictional author. You have to painstakingly get through pages and pages regarding the main characters love life failures in order to get to the meat of the book.
Food for thought:
Dr Eli forces us to examine our long held beliefs,assumptions and behavioural patterns. I think most people would readily identify with Alex Rogo's character and his challenges at the workplace and at home.
Definitely an all-time business classic !
A must for aspiring managers in almost any field:
The author captivates the reader by creating situational drama that anyone working in manufacturing can relate with. The lessons he wants to convey are brilliantly laid out so that the reader is not spoon-fed the answers, yet the answers are clear and validated using logic which is very skillfully developed by the author. Unlike many books I've read on methodologies in manufacturing, the philosophy and methods described in this book are as relevant and timeless as the Socratic method itself, and in fact... more info
The application of reason to systems:
Eli Goldratt's Theory of Constraints is simply stated the application of reason to a controlled system. This is probably the most interesting and helpful book that I read during my time at University. If the big 3 did not have an unchangable establisment perhaps their brighter managers would have read this book and applied TOC. Then we would not be having to bail them out. I recommend this book to all managers, small business owners or anyone else who has to deal with systems that produce products or... more info
