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 August 3 First Friday Book Synopsis, Karl Krayer will present his synopsis of the book Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World  by Michael Hyatt.  (Thomas Nelson.  2012).  This book is designed to help you develop specific steps to clarify your message, refine your message, and get your message heard.

I am going to present the business classic The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox.  (North River Pr. — 3rd Revised edition:  July 2004).  We normally only present “new” books at the First Friday Book Synopsis, but we have occasionally presented books that fit in the category of “business book classics.”  A few years ago, I presented my synopsis of Servant Leadership by Robert Greenleaf.  Greenleaf coined the phrase “servant leadership,” a concept that has stood the test of time.   I believe his work should be discovered and rediscovered by every generation of business leadership.

The Goal is apparently that kind of book.

I was prompted to make this selection by an article in Slate.com by Seth Stevenson.  His article started with this:

When I began to gather information for this Slate series on operations management, I asked a few business-school professors to recommend books I might read on the topic. I expected I’d be pointed toward textbooks and manuals—perhaps written by the professors themselves, or by celebrity CEOs. Instead, I was urged to read a novel by a dead Israeli physicist.

And I blogged about the book in this post:  “The Fat Kid Is The Bottleneck!” – (Eli Goldratt’s The Goal, And A Thought About Expertise).

This will be a valuable session as you try to find out just what it is that is slowing you down now, and then how to develop the kind of powers of observation to always be on the lookout for what will slow you down once this current “bottleneck” is unclogged.

If you are in the DFW area, please join us for the August 3 First Friday Book Synopsis.  (You will be able to register soon from our home page).  Great networking; a terrific, full-service omelet bar/full buffet breakfast; and good challenging content.  It is a great way to spend an early Friday morning. (By the way, we have presented two books a month, every month, since April, 1998 — over 14 years!).

Come join us.