The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Bill Peach’s crimson Mercedes is sitting in Alex Rogo’s parking space at 7:30 in the morning, and by the time Alex gets to the door the division vice-president has chased down one late order, threatened to fire a master machinist, triggered a walkout, and stopped the plant. Then he gives Alex a number: three months to turn the Bearington plant around, or it closes. The Goal is a novel, written that way on purpose: Goldratt wanted the reasoning to arrive as a plot, not a list, so his teacher is a physicist named Jonah who answers almost nothing directly.

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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement