The Goal

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A PROCESS OF ONGOING IMPROVEMENT THIRD EDITION ELIYAHU M. GOLDRATT AND JEFF COX
Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal is the grippuig novel which is transforming management thinking throughout the Western world. The author has been described by Fortune as a 'guru to industry' and by Businessweek as a 'genius'. It is a book to recommend to your friends in industry - even to your bosses - but not to your competitors.
Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try and improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. So is his marriage. He has ninety days to save his plant - or it will be closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. It takes a chance meeting with a colleague from student days — Jonah — to help him break out of conventional ways of tliiiiking to see what needs to be done.
The story of Alex's fight to save his plant is more than compulsive reading. It contains a serious message for all managers in... Tovább

Fülszöveg

A PROCESS OF ONGOING IMPROVEMENT THIRD EDITION ELIYAHU M. GOLDRATT AND JEFF COX
Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal is the grippuig novel which is transforming management thinking throughout the Western world. The author has been described by Fortune as a 'guru to industry' and by Businessweek as a 'genius'. It is a book to recommend to your friends in industry - even to your bosses - but not to your competitors.
Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try and improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. So is his marriage. He has ninety days to save his plant - or it will be closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. It takes a chance meeting with a colleague from student days — Jonah — to help him break out of conventional ways of tliiiiking to see what needs to be done.
The story of Alex's fight to save his plant is more than compulsive reading. 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.
Eliyahu M Goldratt is an internationally recognized leader in the development of new business management concepts and systems, and acts as an educator to many of the world's corporations. The 20th anniversary edition includes a series of detailed case study interviews by David Whitford, Editor at Large, Fortune Small Business, wliich explore how organizations around the world have been transformed by Eli Goldratt's ideas.
'A survey of the reading habits of managers found that though they buy books by the likes of Tom Peters for display purposes, the one management book they have actually read from cover to cover is The Goal.'' The Economist
' . . . most extraordinary book . . . essential reading.' Accountancy Age
'Compidsive reading A novel with the pace and crispness of Raymond Chandler.' Production Engineer
''The Goal is a must read It clears away traditional clutter and points the way towards identifying goals and most importantly, achieving them. Overall, this makes compelling reading.' Financial Management Vissza