The Goal
Posted on Friday, February 26th, 2010 at 2:10 am
Product Description
A fully dramatized version of the practical guide to business in fictional form offers an ensemble cast, accompanied by sound effects and music, that reveals how businesses can enhance productivity and provide personal fulfillment. Book available.
The book sounds very interesting. I want to read it but I have heard that it’s around 370 pages. I don’t have alot of time nowadays and I would apprecite it if someone…anyone could send me a summary of the book (preferrably 2 pages or so). I need this summary for school. I need two people’s summary of the book that have read it and then when I read it..I give my summary and then compare and contrast the 3 different summaries. So if anyone out there could please send me a 2-3 page summary of this book to my e-mail address…so I can complete my paper for school…I would appreciate it so much. Thank you very much.
Rating: 1 / 5
I’m with the last reviewer – how about Cliff Notes on this one
Rating: 1 / 5
The concept is good. But the marriage details that surround it were TOO MUCH. The points could have been given in overview format and much more concisely stated.
I got tired of this fast, because I don’t have time to read it all. I read about 2 books a weeks, but not when I have to sit through a bunch of boring details.
Intead, I like the setup of “Mastering the Rockefeller Habits.” The first chapter was designed for executives who won’t spend the time reading the whole thing, but instead want an overview to quickly grasp the point of the book. These busy readers are then instructed to find the chapters that they are interested in and read up as needed. I recommend reading the whole book, “Mastering the Rockefeller Habits” but I like the option to read or just review!
Unfortunately, I didn’t have this option with “The Goal.”
Rating: 2 / 5
My accounting professor assigned this book, saying it is required reading for Harvard MBA school along with many other schools and new hires in business. However, the further I progressed in the book the more and more I wondered how that is possible. The writing style is for children. Eliyahu Goldratt is very juvenile in the way he handles descriptions, sentence structure, internal monologue, etc. The plot is very cliche and predictable. The main character, who is supposedly highly educated and is a factory manager, thinks and acts as if he never attended a day of class. His wife, the leading woman in the story, is the weakest female character I have ever seen in a book or movie.
In my class, many people postulated that this book was not meant to be a novel, as much as an example for the importance of the theory of constraints. But even if that is true, the probability that the initial circumstances in the book would coexist is of such low possibility, that I would safely say it is outside the relevant range. Therefore, trying to read this book to gain knowledge or insight into optimization or manufacturing is very hampered and wasted time. If you want to learn something about theory of constraints, I recommend reading a math optimization textbook instead.
Rating: 1 / 5
Unfortunately I never received this product as requested on 07/28 by paying extra $17 for urgent delivery. So contacted UPS to resend back to Origin Destination. I got frustated for two days sitting at home to receive this product and the end result is it is not in my hand.
Rating: 1 / 5