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The Goal Goldratt

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What this book knows

A factory in crisis teaches that finding and exploiting the one true constraint is the only path to throughput and survival.

Sex: Absent
Work: Primary
Learning: Primary
Religion: Absent

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Your plant is the anchor pulling us in. I feel exhausted already — the weight of the entire operation pressing down on one man.
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Quality alone cannot be the goal. Rolls Royce nearly went bankrupt. Quality and efficiency together still don't answer the question.
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mind-and-cognition

Whoever is moving the slowest governs throughput. Herbie has the least capacity; his rate ultimately determines the troop's rate.
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Make sure the bottleneck works only on good parts. Time lost at a bottleneck after a defect cannot be recovered.
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I don't have time to solve your problems for you — but that wouldn't be the best thing for you anyway. You must learn to ask the right questions.
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ambition-and-status

I came in feeling we'd really turned the plant around. I expected more than a pat on the head — just 'good job, Al.'
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