Category: Excerpts
Excerpt from The Goal: A Business Graphic Novel
What follows is an excerpt from The Goal: A Business Graphic Novel, based on The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox, and adapted by Dwight Jon Zimmerman and Dean…
Fortune Small Business Interviews
Fortune Small Business: Interviews with Eli Goldratt and others In 2004, David Whitford, editor at large for Fortune Small Business, conducted a series of interviews with Eli Goldratt and others about the implementation of the Theory…
Excerpt from TOC Thinking
Value “Value is created by removing a significant limitation for the customer, in a way that was not possible before, and to the extent that no significant competitor can deliver.” The common definition of value…
EXCERPT from Critical Chain
Chapter 11 Rick is among the last to enter. To his surprise, the small auditorium is almost full. Probably the word went around that this colloquium was going to be different. Much different. Jim is…
EXCERPT from We All Fall Down
Chapter 1 Three little words! Just three words were capable of igniting the wrath of Fran the Fearsome. It was strange, I didn’t regret saying them. I don’t even remember allowing my mouth to let…
EXCERPT from The Choice
Foreword from The Choice… Eli Goldratt is probably best known by his millions of readers as a business guru. Those who know him a little better may think of him as a scientist and an…
EXCERPT from Late Night Discussions
How to block your own distribution channels—a discussion on the automotive industry.… “Proximity is not just a matter of geography,” I mutter as if to myself, but this time I succeed in triggering a reaction….
