Its 2 months i bought this book THE GOAL. A book bought when one of my close friend recommended reading it. Since then i have been a fan of Eliyahu M Goldratt. Being a mech engg manufacturing plants have always fascinated me and I could follow the story very easily.
A truly inspiring book for young engineers and managers to be!!
The main character is Alex Rogo, who manages a manufacturing plant where everything is always behind schedule. A second story line, which only occasionally intersects with the main topic of the book, describes Alex's marital life.
Alex Rogo plant manager working desperately trying to improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster, so is his marriage. He has ninety days to save his plant-or it will be closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. It takes a chance meeting with a physics professor from student days-Jonah (Goldratt himself)-to help him break out of conventional ways of thinking to see what needs to be done.
Though a fat book, the narration and the suspense keeps the reader wondering "What will happen next??" and this happens on and on even with the secondary story too! (This was what kept me reading it without stops sometimes till 2 am!!)
Though a fiction I've learnt a lot about Approach to a problem,Problem solving, Thinking Processes and paths, work-life balance etc.
Even though you may feel its for mechanical&production engineers when you go through the preface of the book, I feel it gives all people a serious message about the thinking process usually adopted and gives an idea on 'how out of the box' thinking can help solving problems easily. Also after reading the book the reader,( be it a CEO, a Manager, a student or even an ordinary human) gets a fair idea of "what a GOAL is ?"
I've recommended this book to all my friends and continue to do so even now.
Now i've bought a book "It's not luck" authored by Goldratt expect a post on it in the coming days!!!!
