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The Goal – Chapter 06 – Improving Metrics Create Visibility

Posted on September 8, 2018 by flybrand1976

[Click for a chapter-by-chapter summary of the whole book.] [Video summary of Chapter 6.] Chapter 6 takes us back to the plant, where our narrator meets with his controller to re-evaluate financial numbers.  Then he returns late to home where … Continue reading →

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The Goal – Chapter 05 – The Worst Corporate Meeting

Posted on September 7, 2018 by flybrand1976

“They’re out there renting warehouses to store all the crap they’re buying so cost-effectively.”  Continue reading →

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The Goal – Chapter 04 – Introducing Jonah in an Airport Flashback

Posted on September 6, 2018 by flybrand1976

(Full Chapter by Chapter Review) (Video Review of Chapter 4) With Chapter 04, the reader is 10% in to Goldratt’s classic and the pattern and story structure are getting clearer. This is a two-week flashback to an encounter with a … Continue reading →

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The Goal – Chapter 03 – Awful Corporate Meeting

Posted on September 5, 2018 by flybrand1976

[Visit the full Chapter by Chapter Summary!] In the first two chapters, Goldratt has set the stage with a troubled plant combined with the demands of family life. Chapter 3 is short. Our narrator, Rogo, faces a dreaded event – … Continue reading →

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The Goal – Chapter 02 – Defining Process

Posted on September 4, 2018 by flybrand1976

A page by page review of the highlights of Chapter 2 of Goldratt’s classic, “The Goal” which introduces the Theory of Constraints. #toc Continue reading →

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The Goal – Chapter 01 – Alex’s Production Site Fails

Posted on September 3, 2018 by flybrand1976

[This is #1 in a series covering all 40 Chapters – Visit the summary. Video summary is here, and a <60s summary of the chapter is here.] Chapter 1 of The Goal pulls the reader right in: Goldratt, the author … Continue reading →

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$TSLA’s Race Against Constraints

Posted on March 29, 2018 by flybrand1976

GP’s with a name portfolio company are coy with their humblebrag as they pitch new limited partners.  This isn’t the kid down the street who puts his Bo Jackson rookie card at the front of his card collection.  This is … Continue reading →

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New or Better?

Posted on January 16, 2018 by flybrand1976

When new technologies arise there is a real desire to create a Disruptive Product(TM), to focus on the new and to avoid simply making a better version of the current market leader. Don’t fall into that trap. It is almost … Continue reading →

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“What does it take to be (a good) CEO?” Answer: People

Posted on January 1, 2018 by flybrand1976

All of the successes were from bringing in good people, helping them frame problems and getting them the tools they needed to be successful. The failures? They were mine – mostly due to not properly resourcing a problem with the … Continue reading →

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Supporting a Technology Team

Posted on December 18, 2017 by flybrand1976

Technologies build the future. Teams deeper in a technology than ourselves are all around us – providing support at a vendor, evaluating you as a customer, reporting to you, supporting you indirectly, or in some other format. 0/ People first. … Continue reading →

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