Top Posts & Pages
- Goldratt's The Goal: Chapter by Chapter Review
- Seven Red Lines (aka "The Expert"): The Transcript
- How to Win Friends and Influence People: Chapter by Chapter Review of Dale Carnegie's Best Book
- How to Win Friends and Influence People: Part 1, Ch 1 - PRINCIPLE 1 - "Don’t criticize, condemn or complain."
- Carnegie 12.3.03: PRINCIPLE 3 If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.- “If You’re Wrong, Admit It”
-
Recent Posts
- COVID-19: Website Communication from Pennsylvania, Michigan, Florida, Texas, and Georgia – Could the Florida Message be So good it saved lives?
- COVID-19: Understanding Mortality Rates from California and the California Coronavirus COVID-19 Statewide Update
- COVID-19 Kills Senior Citizens: Mortality Reporting from New York, New Jersey, Illinois and Massachusetts
Categories
Archives
Meta
-
Tag Archives: Theory of Constraints
The Goal Best Summary
Alex fixes his troubled plant with the help of his mentor, Jonah, who uses the Socratic method to explain a problem solving system. The method they use is the Theory of Constraints that was created by the author – Eliyahu … Continue reading
Posted in Goldratt's The Goal, Theory
Tagged Best, Book Review, Constraints, Goldratt, The Goal, Theory of Constraints, ToC
The Most Popular Guides to Goldratt’s The Goal
“Whenever people are not doing the obvious – it is my job to find the missing piece of the puzzle. Something is missing. What is it?” Continue reading
Posted in Books, Business, Goldratt's The Goal
Tagged Constraints, Goldratt, The Goal, Theory of Constraints, ToC
Goldratt’s The Goal: Chapter by Chapter Review
[Other Options – Major Concepts in The Goal, or The Most Popular Guides to The Goal] Written in 1984, The Goal lays out Eliyahu Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints (“ToC”) in the format of a novel. ToC was first used into improve production … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Goldratt's The Goal, Uncategorized
Tagged Constraint, Goldratt, The Goal, Theory of Constraints
The Goal: Based on Teamwork & Data
Goldratt takes several approaches to showing how Constraints impact a plant and even personal lives. Several approaches are used to educate the reader; Jonah serves as a mentor to Alex Rogo, educating him on what is going on. Rogo adopts … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Uncategorized
Tagged Data, Goldratt, Teamwork, The Goal, Theory of Constraints, ToC
1 Comment
The Goal – Chapter 40 – Culture and Constraints
Dig deeper with the full Chapter-by-Chapter Review of The Goal. Like Chapter 39, I find this final chapter unsatisfying. It must have been hard for Goldratt to bring the book to a close. The character and plot arcs through the … Continue reading
The Goal – Chapter 39 – Planning
The plant is having hiccups. Rogo is no longer the plant manager and has to help at a higher level. This chapter lacks the ‘aha’ moments that have driven the cadence of the book until now. It seems our author, … Continue reading
The Goal – Chapter 37 – Constraint Rules
We pick up the team where we closed out Chapter 36. A set of Steps has been laid out on how to handle new situations. Highlights 1. IDENTIFY the system’s constraint( s). 2. Decide how to EXPLOIT the system’s constraint( … Continue reading
