![]() ![]() That's why I tried to deliver the message contained in the book in the Socratic way. Presenting us with final conclusions is not a way that we learn. I sincerely believe that the only way we can learn is through our deductive process. I have also attempted to show in the book the meaning of education. This was not done just to make the book more popular, but to highlight the fact that we tend to disqualify many phenomena of nature as irrelevent as far as science is concerned. I dared to interweave into the book a family life struggle, which I assume is quite familiar to any manager who is to some extent obsessed with his work. What is needed is just the courage to face inconsistencies and to avoid running away from them just because "that's the way it was always done". What I have attempted to show with this book is that no exceptional brain power is needed to construct a new science or to expand on an existing one. If you do, you basically have taken science from the ivory tower of academia and put it where it belongs, within the reach of every one of us and made it applicable to what we see around us. Incidentally, common sense is not so common and is the highest praise we give to a chain of logical conclusions. You the reader can judge whether or not the logic of the book's derivation from its assumptions to the phenomena we see daily in our plants is so flawless that you call it common sense. 2 This book is an attempt to show that we can postulate a very small number of assumptions and utilize them to explain a very large spectrum of industrial phenomena. Goldratt The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement Captured by Plamen T. If these phenomena are not phenomena of nature, what are they?ĭo we want to place what we see in organizations to the arena of fiction rather than into reality? E. We should also realize that there are many more phenomena of nature that do not fall into these categories, for instance those phenomena we see in organizations, particularly those in industrial organizations. We refer to science when we deal with physics, chemistry or biology. Somehow we have restricted the connotation of science to a very selective, limited assemblage of natural phenomena. This is the case with the assumption of the conservation of energy which was replaced by Einstein's more global-more valid -postulation of the conservation of energy and mass.Įinstein's assumption is not true to the same extent that the previous one was not "true". It just highlights the need or even the existence of another assumption that is more valid. This disproving does not detract from the validity of the assumption. On the other hand, it can be disproved by just a single phenomenon that cannot be explained by the assumption. Such an assumption can never be proven since even an infinite number of phenomena that can be explained by it does not prove its universal application. It is just an assumption that is valid in explaining a tremendous amount of natural phenomena. The Law of Conservation of Energy of physics is not truth. Science is simply the method we use to try and postulate a minimum set of assumptions that can explain, through a straightforward logical derivation, the existence of many phenomena of nature. Science for me, and for the vast majority of respectable scientists, is not about the secrets of nature or even about truths. I believe that these two words have been abused to the extent that their original meanings have been lost in a fog of too much respect and mystery. 1 INTRODUCTION The Goal is about science and education. , 1948The goal: a process of ongoing improvement I. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Goldratt, Eliyahu M. ![]() Goldratt Third Revised Edition © 2004 Eliyahu M. Goldratt Second revised Edition © 1992 Eliyahu M. ![]() Goldratt Revised Edition Copyright © 1986 Eliyahu M. Additional copies can be obtained from your local bookstore or the publisher: The North River Press Publishing Corporation P. Goldratt and Jeff Cox With interviews by David Whitford, Editor at Large, Fortune Small Business North River Press Captured by Plamen T. THE GOAL A Process of Ongoing Improvement THIRD REVISED EDITION By Eliyahu M. ![]()
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