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The Goal
- A Process of Ongoing Improvement - 30th Anniversary Edition
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Categories: Business & Careers, Management & Leadership
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Publisher's Summary
In this intriguing business novel, which illustrates state-of-the-art economic theory, Alex Rogo is a UniCo plant manager whose factory and marriage are failing. To revitalize the plant, he follows piecemeal advice from an elusive former college professor who teaches, for example, that reduction in the efficiency of some plant operations may make the entire operation more productive. Alex's attempts to find the path to profitability and to engage his employees in the struggle involve the listener; and thankfully the authors' economic models, including a game with matchsticks and bowls, are easy to understand. Although some characters are as anonymous as the goods manufactured in the factory, others ring true. In addition, the tender story of Alex and his wife's separation and reconciliation makes a touching contrast to the rest of the book. Recommended for anyone with an interest in the state of the American economy.
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- SIDS navigator
- 12-02-19
Management start with self management, discipline
Loved it, kept on expecting more advise and guidance on approach to management issues. Guide for the new age managers to focus on what's actually the goal is for a company; for the manager to actually be leader.
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- Vivek D.
- 05-12-18
Great book with awesome recording.
This book is anyway considered classic. Though this audio book has one of the best performances i have ever experienced. Unique voice for each character, background noise as per environment and background music as per situation. More or less like a movie. Loved it. Though its a shame that the artists are uncredited in the book details.
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- Chetan S K
- 18-02-21
My first and luckily the best audible book I have come across
The script is classic within few chapters of the book you become part of the story and the author the reader has successfully been able to create the plant in front of your eyes
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- Anonymous User
- 19-01-21
Must read book.
Nicely depicted and give indepth understanding. I suggest production persons should have insights of this book.
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- Sudhindra
- 05-12-20
Very Nice Book
I could be able to visualise and co relate easily.. as it was related to my field.
This book shows common sense is not common. Narration was very good. This book shows importance of low inventory,right batch size.
How the challenges from top changes the things.
Same people, same machines, Same facility. Only adding threat/ Challenge is added .
Threat worked as catalyst.
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- Parag
- 16-11-20
Excellent book
Excellent book and narration is even better to explain concepts and it's relevance in best possible way !!!
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- Pritesh Jain
- 06-10-20
Really good book and storytelling
Really enjoyed the storytelling used to explain concepts from production and operations management. Narrators are highly engaging.
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- Amazon Customer
- 26-07-20
Superb
this book clears the basics of how to identify the constraints in a production plant and improve throughput
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- Kindle Customer
- 18-07-20
Best audio book you may ever listen too
Goldratt, has lots of created a plot for us dig lots of Gold. The books narration was better than watching a movie. The background score, the character mood all was captured beautifully. The book is like a good dishes served in a good ambiance. After finishing the meal the you feel you have just started..
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- Reddy
- 26-05-20
Awesome Book on Throughput
To keep it simple I would like read or / and listen this multiple times. Fantastic book. I would say go for it. will be really helpful for mid management level to CEOs level.
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- Wooden Nichols
- 03-05-15
The Goal - still relevant today
I read this book 20 years ago, and while the story has a lot of remnants from the 1980s that don't translate well to todays modern world, the concepts demonstrated through fixing the broken factory are still true today as they were then. It should be required reading or listening to anyone who works in a leadership position in their careers regardless of the field they work.
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- California Dreaming
- 04-04-15
Great lessons packed inside of a well told story
I really enjoyed this book...and I'm not even in the manufacturing industry! I'm working on my own food business right now. I think there's a little something here for everyone who's looking to increase efficiency in a counter intuitive way.
Also, I really enjoyed the way the story was told and I appreciate all of the extra effort that went in this audio production.
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- Dan Collins
- 23-03-17
Reinventing Production for Us IT Dummies
I am an IT manager and I am getting into DevOps. This book came up more than once in my research so I gave it a try even though I am not in fabrication and production. At least, that's what I thought until I listened to this book.
What I love about this book is that the fictional narrative allows the protagonist to "blow-up" his manufacturing plant's way of doing business. Of course, he isn't trying to blow it up, he is just trying to make it perform. But Goldratt teaches us that some things, some processes we entered the profession with, some metrics that have served us well for years - need to be blown-up and more importantly, replaced with something useful. Listen to this book and find out not necessarily what the new metrics should be - but how to discover them for yourself.
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- Gabe Graumann
- 08-01-19
Decent concepts, but unnecessarily dramatized
Purchased following all of the positive reviews and the whole "30th anniversary" marketing. Ultimately it has a handful of good thoughts on systems and processes, and viewing things from a new perspective, especially related to American manufacturing concepts, but the dramatization of the narrative got old quickly and stretched what should otherwise have been a book of less than 5 chapters. Plenty of other resources out there will accomplish the same thing unless you really like cheesy business drama in the line of afternoon soap operas.
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- Stuart
- 06-01-19
Unlistenable
Returning this immediately, multiple voice actors rarely work, and the combination of multiple voices and background music is cacophonous.
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- E.
- 24-07-17
Outstanding! One of the best I've ever listened to.
It was like watching a screenplay with different characters and plot lines, and the lessons are crystal clear. Recommended to anyone interested in understanding the science of Process in any business.
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- Amanda
- 18-07-17
This book changed the way I think
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What a book. The idea of textbook flipped on its head and turned into a narrative. The ideas for the manufacturing plant I think are transferable to many other endeavors. When you ask the question - what is my goal here, and then go through the thought process outlined, amazing things happen. A great author, thinker and contributor to many businesses bottom line.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-03-17
Great education on metrics to make decisions
This is a great book on how to look at things from a different direction and pay attention to value drivers you may not be watching. I wished I read it twenty years ago.
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- Juan
- 17-07-17
A business classic
A Must book for executives and business people who want to improve their business acumen.
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- sanjay bhatt
- 07-05-16
the best book for an engineering company
make your company profitable and also enjoy your Family Life after reading this book. enjoy
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- Anonymous User
- 20-09-20
Poor reading by main character
The main character was reading like he was chasing a train. Very monotonous voice as well. Really let the story down
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- The laughing fox
- 13-10-18
Exhilarating and insightful - an inspiration
This book is a masterpiece. A work of art. If you have a business with any kind of assembly line it’s a must read. If not it’s a beautifully written story with tension and pace and excitement that will teach you things you didn’t know.
Such as how Toyota overtook theUS car industry in the 80s and how those ideas originated with Henry Ford, whose insights had been forgotten by several generations of managers and accountants who didn’t understand the goal.
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- LC
- 30-05-19
How to increase your production throughput by optimising flow
Nice story introducing various concepts around bottlenecks and flow that can be used to increase throughput by multiples. Thought provoking and interesting, but maybe needs some in depth thinking in order to put it to use in a different environment.
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- Mr. Brian Jenkinson
- 01-08-18
Manfacturing in all sectors
It doesn't matter your sector, the goal is all about improvement. This book brings to life a manufacturing plant and the analysis and changes to make that can be applied to any business. Want to make your business or the business you work for more successful, then understand your goal.
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- TAMBE
- 24-11-15
Gripping fantastic book masterfully narrated.
Great novel from am outstanding mentor. I didn't even realise I was giving it a third listening to.
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- Mr A.
- 18-02-21
Very Enlightening!
This book has highlighted so many things to me. Having worked in financial services for 19 years without this knowledge, it has dawned on me that I could have really benefitted from hearing/reading this book 10 years ago when I first wanted to get into management. I'm not much of a reader, so the audiobook, with all it's character voices, sound effects etc was incredibly easy for me to consume. 17 hours in three days! The storyline was very relatable for me as someone who has grown up in a family that is always looking to move forward and improve. Also as part of a mixed class family with expectation to be married, have a family, work hard and move up the ladder. The only let down in the story for me and what I didn't like, was Alex Rogo's perspective of his wife's behaviour in the early stages of the book. It's painful to listen to how he treats her, how he talks to her, but I guess that it might have been more normal behaviour for men back in the 80s. Maybe that is more of a moral issue than a downside to the book. I hope it highlights to many people out there, that our relationships need work, and our families and partners need our time, just as much as our businesses do. There are clear lessons to be learnt throughout this book and they can be applied to any business we might work for or own. You have to take a step or two outside your normal zone to really assess what is going on, but I believe that most people can learn a huge amount from this book and the way it has been structured with the story. I'll probably be recommending this book to everyone I ever speak to.
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- Karl
- 09-01-21
Outstanding performance and production
The lessons of the book could have been written on 2 sides of A4, but that would have conferred 1% of the impact and retention that this narrative confers. It is much better to understand a few solid points extremely well and memorably, rather than a list of hundreds which you don't truly understand. The author highlights this inductive approach to learning in the introduction. It's effective and enjoyable. The performance is outstanding. Multiple voice actors and background sound effects. Very well done indeed. I will remember every single salient point made in this book due to the narrative.
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- Tommy
- 05-08-20
Couldn't stop listening!
Really got a kick out of listening to this fascinating and, probably for a lot of people relevant audiobook. I loved the life-balance aspect to the story, often this area is being completely overlooked, but is oh so important!
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- Nicky Douglas Connolly
- 02-05-20
Helpful story of lean
Easy listening to the story of lean management and how to implement the main concepts
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-02-20
Great listen
The recording of this audiobook is nothing less than amazing. It was a massive pleasure to listen to it and im not sure how im gonna go back to normal audiobook recordings from this :)
The book itself is obviously also worth the listen. I came here after listening to the devops project but i would say that i actually enjoyed this one more.
Would recommend to everyone
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- Jeremy
- 07-10-16
Great story and useful information
I really enjoyed this book, story was great, it has sound of machinery when walking through a factory, birds chirping when hiking a trail, to rock music while driving home after a promotion. It has different voices of all the character's too, by far the best audio experience compared to other audio story books.
You get to see how a manufacting plant is run from the managers perspective, seeing the effects of new improvements. As a small business owner myself i have noticed areas that can be improved, based from the methods taught in this book.
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- Rod
- 06-05-14
Must read for anyone in business
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Anyone in business. I read it 30 years ago, and I have listened to it twice just now and it is still as relevant to anyone in business today. While it is set around a manufacturing plant, don't be fooled into thinking that it is just about manufacturing -- it is really about thinking, and how to think through improvements in any environment.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Jonah
Which scene did you most enjoy?
The scout troup hike, which explained the "drum, rope, buffer" concept without actually saying "drum, rope, buffer".
Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Sometimes. The parallel story of Alex's family life was a nice emotional touch the first time reading, but it detracts on the next few readings, if you are like me and want to go back over the concepts and study the book in more detail.
Any additional comments?
A must read for business people.
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- Michael
- 17-09-19
A great read
The delivery of this book was the best of any audiobook I've read. They use different voices and background noises to bring you into the story.
The plot becomes a bit thin when the author tries to apply the underlying process of ongoing improvement to the main character's marital problems. I can see where the author was trying to show that these techniques could be used in all aspects of life, but in this example I think that offloading his parenting duties to his mother and winning an epic promotion at work probably had a lot more influence in saving his marriage than directly applying his mentor's techniques of process improvement.
I'm very glad to have read this book, it helped me understand the process of identifying what the goal is in any situation.
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- Daeta
- 04-09-19
Wonderful, love learning through story
Was a little slow to start with, then once i started to understand where it was going, the story took off.
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- rez
- 04-09-19
Fantastic!
This book might be old, but is still very relevant. The story-line is smooth and interesting to an extent you WILL forget you are listening to a business book.
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- Jan Shellew
- 13-07-19
Very distracting background
The story and message is fantastic, the characters amazing but the background music and sounds were terrible. Very distracting and took away from the actors performances.
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- Dan
- 25-05-19
Unique, entertaining and educational
Not your typical business book. The Goals turns a potentially very dry subject into a fun and insightful listen. The production style is very nostalgic as well!
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- Aneil Achari
- 03-02-19
awesome listening
this book was very easy listening and enticing, the use of different voices for the characters is appreciated and the content is amazingly relevant.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-03-18
Excellent business book
A must read for any production managers or people in manufacturing businesses. Will at least double your profit.