5/11/2021 0 Comments Scopul Elyahu M
This book is like a sequel to The Goal and takes the TOC concepts into other areas of the business such as Marketing and sales.Cash is needed and Alex Rogos companies are to be put on the block.If he successfully completes the turnaround of his companies they can be sold for the maximum return: if he fails they will be closed down.And as if he doesnt have enough to deal with, his two children have become teenagers.
As Alex grapples with problems at work and at home, we begin to understand the full scope of Eli Goldratts powerful techniques. Its Not Luck reveals more of the Thinking Process-techniques that consistently produce win-win solutions to seemingly impossible problems. Open to feedback, allowing his subordinates to come up with the ideas, gu more Alex Rogo (as per the book) was as close to an ideal boss one could ask for. Open to feedback, allowing his subordinates to come up with the ideas, guiding wherever he could but giving a free rein, and most importantly, looking out for the employees and being vocal against layoffs - knowing that cost cutting is not the surefire way to improve the bottomline - while coming up with the best alternative to keep the all-powerful board pleased. As a story its not as effective, there isnt the same sense of threat or excitement that I felt in the first book as Alex grappled to save the factory, and employed the same insights on batch size management and production organisation to save his marriage (view spoiler) wh. As a story its not as effective, there isnt the same sense of threat or excitement that I felt in the first book as Alex grappled to save the factory, and employed the same insights on batch size management and production organisation to save his marriage (view spoiler) which was naturally faltering as he spent all his time down the factory eating pizza (hide spoiler), however it does develop the ideas and adds some new conceptual tools. At one stage our hero is taken on a business trip by aeroplane by two venture capitalists. Hero tells them that they are boozy asset strippers you never did a days graft in their life, their response is that they through their investment policies and asset striping drive the stock market which is apparently good for everyones pension funds which apparently makes everything ok (view spoiler) possibly the feeblest literary comeback ever, but to be fair I havent been keeping a precise data set (hide spoiler). In this book, having transformed his factory into a cash cow, the hero Alex, gets promoted to run a division of three businesses, a barely profitable printing business and two others the details of which I no longer remember, and he is tasked with transforming these in to dynamic dynamos spinning out wads of money and to raise the capital to save the corporation as a whole in the process which will require the sale of at least one of the businesses - all of which clamour for further investment. The basic idea is that this ought to appear mission impossible and yet like a fiendish murder mystery be transformed into mission accomplished within a hundred pages or so thanks to the heros handy toolkit of brilliant ideas, which I dont think it is a spoiler to say he does just as one expects Miss Marple to solve the murder and not at the end of the novel simply walkout of the village wearing only a string of pearls declaring her intention to go to Harrogate. As a business book however its a light but thought-provoking read, it is mildly interesting how Alex solves the puzzle of which businesses to sell and how. Also it turns out the same fundamental toolkit allows the hero to manage his teenaged children (view spoiler) beware though: the author offers no cashback guarantee for the success of this in managing real life children of any age (hide spoiler). The book doesnt show a step by step on how a problem is solved but is a story where a manager solves problems one by one using the Theory of Constraints Thinking Processes. It took me a while to construct a system on how these processes could be applied. There wasnt a complete set of example which uses all the tools for 1 specific problem so I created it. Ive done.
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