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, [.].
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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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? Solve these 2 issues, and your path to business success becomes a little clearer. and #2 — how do I find, and get rid of, whatever is slowing us down in our company? At the [.].
First Friday Book Synopsis
JULY 15, 2011
Surviving the Serengeti: 7 Skills To Master Business and Life Stefan Swanepoel John Wiley & Sons (2011) A parable for success that sometimes requires a perilous journey of self-discovery Fables may well be among the earliest forms of storytelling and remain popular among several business thinkers, notably Stephen Denning and Patrick Lencione.
Deming Institute
APRIL 3, 2020
In it he writes that, “…our prosocial disposition and our noblest altruistic tendencies have deep roots in the physics of self-organization and are probably responsible for our species’ unparalleled success…” (p. Goldratt describes a constraint as “the limiting factor that prevents a system from moving closer to achieving its goal.”
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