First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 6, 2012

Last Friday, I presented my synopsis of the business book classic, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt & Jeff Cox. It is a genuine multi-year best seller, and now I know why. It is an incredibly useful, helpful, practical book. Written in fable form, it is set in a factory, but, [.].

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Goldratt Goal Succession Process 158

LDRLB

JULY 16, 2012

One exception to this is Eliyah Goldratt’s The Goal and after an initial reading of Grivas and Puccio’s The Innovative Team: Unleashing Creative Potential for Breakthrough Results , I may have another exception. I’m not the biggest fan of business fables.

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Innovation Goldratt Team Brainstorming 118

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 19, 2012

The book The Goal is a “business classic” we somehow have missed at the First Friday Book Synopsis. (Hint: read all the way to the end to get the point of this blog post – about expertise and experience). I am rectifying this, and will present this book at the August First Friday Book Synopsis. [.].

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Goal Blog Books Goldratt 160

Mike Cardus

MAY 17, 2013

When working one on one coaching a manager through successes, challenges and workable goals , how would I illustrate humbleness while being arrogant to have the conviction to develop the needed knowledge? Eli Goldratt ‘The Choice’. How might I work with a team and people to be ‘humbly arrogant’? Image Credit – Image Credit.

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Engineering Goldratt Gilbert Team Building 133

LDRLB

JUNE 23, 2010

Goldratt that is geared towarding help organizations continually achieve their goals. The theory contends that any manageable system is limited in achieving more of its goal by a very small number of constraints and that there is always at least one constraint. Leadership evidence-based management goldratt'

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Constraint Goldratt Restructuring System 74

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 8, 2012

Here are two important business success issues: #1 — how do I successfully get people to listen to my message? and #2 — how do I find, and get rid of, whatever is slowing us down in our company? Solve these 2 issues, and your path to business success becomes a little clearer. At the [.].

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Goal Books Succession Company 131

Deming Institute

APRIL 3, 2020

Goldratt describes a constraint as “the limiting factor that prevents a system from moving closer to achieving its goal.” Dr. Goldratt offers five focusing steps to mitigate constraints and facilitate ongoing improvement in organizations.

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System Deming Constraint Goldratt 72