The Goal, By Dr. Eliyahu M. A Brief

Throughout history, every country had a body of government. Some strived and some opposed, in which only the people that were under their rule would be effected. The way I see it, Freedom to do what you want and living under the government’s care is hard to keep in balance. My question is would having absolute freedom be appropriate for people, is having the right to freely to pursue life’s goal without government interference important? Or would having your government guarantee that nobody is in need preferable? For example health care or unemployment or even education. This is all opinion based and there are many pros and cons to these situations but personally, I’d rather have the government having my back. Aiding me with education, helping me look for a job when I lost one and paying for my medical expensive definitely helps the individual.

In his essay “The Achievement of Desire,” Richard Rodriguez has certain ways of speaking and caring. In particular, he focuses on his education and his family. These two will eventually clash and interfere with each other. Rodriguez contrasts school, family, teachers and most importantly himself. He also tells us how left his childhood and family for education, but when he wanted to return he couldn’t fully do so. He learned he couldn't fully return due to his conforming to education that leads him to observe and analyze everything.

1. Do you feel that the Bearington plant has the right equipment and technology to do the job? Why?

The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt is an entertaining and thought provoking business book. The story is about Unico manufacturing plant and its manager – Alex Rogo whose job and marriage is hanging in the air. Bill Peach, who is the factory executive comes into the plant and notices that production has gone down since Alex has been appointed manager. There is six months of production backlog and late shipment of order to customers. Unico is neither productive nor profitable. As a result Alex finds himself in an uncomfortable position of having three months to turn things around or the plant goes downhill.

The one and only goal for any company should be to make money. Under the theory of constraints, everything that goes towards achieving that particular goal is productive and everything that doesn’t is unproductive. The first bit of advice Jonah gives to Alex involves the big picture view of what is wrong with the plant. Jonah mentions high inventories and failure to achieve shipping dates as most likely the main problems being faced, and asks Alex multiple questions, without giving answers. This back and forth between Alex and Jonah can be described as the socratic method. This method allows a series of questions to be asked but left up to interpretation, so there is no answer given, but critical thinking is required to find a solution. After this method works to perfection and Alex figures out the answer to these questions, he immediately sets up a meeting with an accountant and they outline what is needed such as increasing net profit, return on investment and cash flow.

Reading The Goal will certainly impact my perspective as a supervisor or manager in my future career. Although I am unsure as to the type of company I will eventually work for, I will be able to implement several of the concepts I learned in the book. First of all, I will know how to go about eliminating or reducing bottlenecks. Secondly, I will focus on the performance measurements that matter most when working toward the goal of making money. Lastly, I will work toward building a strong team to work with in finding solutions to system or production issues.

The goal of a manufacturing organization is to make money. Jonah poses this as a question: "What is the goal?" and Rogo actually struggles with it for a day or two, but any manager or executive that can't answer that question without hesitation should be fired without hesitation.

I chose to read the book, “The Goal” by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. The book is about a plant manager, Alex Rogo, who is trying to save his plant from getting shut down by using the help of physicist, Jonah, and the Theory of Constraints. I can see the benefits of this book in different areas, not only in the ability to increase productivity in any company, but also using the ideas in all other areas of your life. I personally had a difficult time understanding this book. It took me reading it, then going back and re-reading part of it, to really understand how to apply the concepts. However, I do finally get it. The two key things that I enjoyed about the book are "dependent events" in relation to "statistical fluctuations and bottlenecks vs non-bottlenecks.

The Goal a Process of Ongoing Improvements was Dr.Eliyahu M Goldratt first book. It is a fiction business management novel that primarily focuses on the theory of constraints. The author Goldratt is a critical acclaimed Israeli business manager, physicist professor, and author. He is thought of as the guru of business operation. Goldratt is the creator of optimized production technique and the theory of constraints. He also is the author of the following books: Production the TOC way, IT’S Not LUCK, Critical Chain, Necessary but not sufficient, ISNT It Obvious, The Choice, The Race, What is This Thing Called: theory of constraints, and The Haystack Syndrome.

‘The Goal’ written by Eliyahu M. Goldratt is a compelling management novel, which emphasizes on using logical reasoning rather than following conventional ways of doing business. This novel used manufacturing plant as a metaphor to uncover the fundamental concepts of ‘Theory of Constraints’. The story revolves around saving the plant by working through the constraints to reach the overall goal of the organization with new measurements and new assumptions, which can be applicable for every industry and business as well as personal life.

Book Review of "Goal" 1. What is the problem? Alex Rogo was a plant manager at the Barrington Plant of Uniware, a division of UniCo. One day Bill Peach, division vice president visited his plant and found that there were lots of problems with schedule arrangement, quality, cost & inventory control in his plant. These problems had already made the organization lose money. At last Bill gave Alex three months to improve, otherwise, the plant would be closed. Three months?! That was all Alex Rogo was able to think about. Alex had to start to consider what was the goal of the manufacturing organization. What on earth was the GOAL of the manufacturing organization? Was it better customer service? Larger market share? Lower cost? High quality?

I read the fictional book called, The goal: A process of ongoing improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff cox. Goldratt has an extensive history of writing novels about business problems and their solutions. His list of work includes; The race, The haystack syndrome, What is This Thing Called Theory of Constraints and How Should it be Implemented?, It’s not luck, critical chain, and necessary but not sufficient. With his most recent work being in 2009 called Isn’t it obvious focusing on retail. The authors purpose for writing this book would be to educate and show examples on how to think outside the box or solve solutions, possibly even save companies. In his own words, “This book is an attempt to show that we can postulate a very small number of assumptions and utilize them to explain a very large spectrum of industrial phenomena” (Goldratt, Intro to revised edition page 2). He states he wants to show that these methods aren’t fantasy and have been/are working in pants around the world, and says that, “Finally, and most importantly, I wanted to show that we can all be outstanding scientists. The secret of being a good scientist, I believe, lies not in our brain power. We have enough. We simply need to look at reality and think logically and precisely about what we see” (Goldratt, Introduction page 2). This story is about a failing or close to failing manufacturing plant in a place called Bearington. The novel begins with the main character Alex Rogo, a

When reading the book The Goal written by Eliyahu Goldratt, there were many lessons that I learned in order to have a clear and concise understanding of a positive level of productivity in a company. To have a positive level of productivity there are may components that are taken into consideration. Understanding what it actually means to be productive and how to increase the level of productivity by knowing the actual goal of the company that is trying to be reached and the components that go into the process of being productive. There are many factors that contribute to the level of productivity and being able to identify these factors is the key ingredient to having a successful level of productivity.

Alex meets Jonah, his favorite professor in school, surprisingly at an airport, during his rather traumatic phase of professional and family life. Jonah opens his eyes to a new world of constraints and variability. He tells Alex that he is actually heading a plant not with inefficient people but with an inefficient system. Jonah gets to know all this by just asking a few simple questions about Alex’s professional life

Eliyahu Goldratt wrote many other books, such as It’s Not Luck, Critical Chain, Necessary but Not Sufficient and Isn’t It Obvious?. Goldratt was the founder of Theory of Constraint for education. This theory becomes a tool for teachers to use in operation management. The Goal genre is a fiction. The purpose of this book is to understand the theory of Constraints and resolve the bottlenecks. The Goal book is intended to any Operation manager who wants to success in the real business.