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Business Success is no Accident: Here are the 5 Steps – My Takeaways from The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

First Friday Book Synopsis

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, [.].

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EBM: Constraints

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Goldratt that is geared towarding help organizations continually achieve their goals. The theory contends that any manageable system is limited in achieving more of its goal by a very small number of constraints and that there is always at least one constraint. Subordinate all other processes to above decision.

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Coming for the August 3 First Friday Book Synopsis – Platform, & Goldratt’s The Goal

First Friday Book Synopsis

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 [.].

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Systemically Non-Systemic: COVID-19 through the Deming Lens

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She goes on to write, “In quantum physics, a homologous process is described as relational holism, where whole systems are created by the relationships among subatomic particles” (p. Goldratt describes a constraint as “the limiting factor that prevents a system from moving closer to achieving its goal.”

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ROAR! : A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Get Heard in the Sales and Marketing Jungle Kevin Daum with Daniel A. Turner John Wiley & Sons (2010) How to “break through all that noise and visual stimulation to get to the core of the customer” What we have here is another business fable, a very popular sub-genre for business book authors [.].

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