The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal is a gripping novel that is transforming management thinking throughout the Western world.

Alex Rogo is a married plant manager working ever more desperately to try and 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 colleague from his student days—Jonah—to help him break out of conventional ways of thinking to see what needs to be done.

The story of Alex's fight to save his plant is more than compulsive reading. It contains a serious message for all managers in the industry and explains the ideas that underline the Theory of Constraints (TOC) developed by Eli Goldratt.