The Goal

Name: The Goal
Author: Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox

A struggling factory and a disastrous hike make bottlenecks, flow, and the theory of constraints hard to forget.

Book note Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox 1984 Systems Thinking Business Building

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