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The Goal

The Goal, E.M. Goldratt and J. Cox

This book has actually been on my to read list since…. erm well the 1990′s! I finally got around to reading it after picking it up in a second hand book store (it must have been fate)!  What I want to know is why did I wait! I think partly because I don’t work in ‘heavy’ manufacturing and whilst I wanted to read it out of interest i didn’t think it would provide any valuable lessons….Well, it did and was a good read too, the story (whilst a little cheesy) helps take you through the processes and think along rather than the standard read and regurgitate kind of learning.

As I said I’m not in manufacturing, I’m in IT but there were still many relevant lessons about planning and looking at systems not just individual components of a process.  If you are in any kind of manufacturing why haven’t you read it already! don’t wait like I did, if your in production (i use this in an even broader way than manufacturing… making a website is production…) then it will still be of use to you (just see the plant as a metaphor for what ever it is you’re doing.