Book Report: The Goal This paper is a book report on the novel entitled The Goal written by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox. The 40-chapter book is actually a business book written in the form of a novel that makes it interesting to read unlike other business textbook. As a novel‚ the book is entertaining but at the same time‚ very informative for management or accounting students as well as for the real-life company managers and CEOs who wanted to apply different managerial practices
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Angelina Tambunan ACCT 508 Book Report ‘The Goal’ I. Summary The story takes place at a fictitious town called Bearington where the Uniware manufacturing plant of the UniCo Company is situated. Whatever products the plant manufactures was not mentioned in the novel. The plant is headed by the plant manager Alex Rogo who is also the lead character of the novel. The problems begin when one upset customer approaches Alex’s boss‚ Bill Peach about a very late order. Actually Alex’s plant has
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Capturing the Wisdom of Four Generations • How it is important that organizations‚ especially managers recognize the difference and the real meaning behind each different generation. • Understand each of the four generations and their perception of workstyle and how they perceive the world • Each of the generations has its own ways of learning‚ communicating‚ working style‚ and collaborating • Out of every generation leaders should generate something positive • Technology has had a big impact
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questions from your detailed observation of Jonah 4:1-11 and interpret the passage by answering that question using evidential premises and inferences: Jonah 4:6 “Then the LORD God provided a leafy plant and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head to ease his discomfort‚ and Jonah was very happy about the plant.” (NIV) Observation: This plant is Lord appointed. God made a provision for this plant to protect Jonah. Question: What was Jonah supposed to understand from the episode with
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Jakeshia Moore Mktg 372 Alidee Nov 28‚ 11 The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement The Goal by Eliyahu Goldatt is a novel‚ regarding the management and accounting processes at a manufacturing plant. The book focuses around a perhaps older 30- early 40s something industrial engineer‚ Alex Rogo. With the description Goldatt gives of Rogo‚ he personifies the profile of a large number of people involved in business administration (Lui 1997). Alex is married‚ with two children and
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productivity of the whole company. He said‚ “The future of our business depends upon our ability to increase productivity.” 3. (Chapter 4) What do you think the goal is? What might be wrong with the other measurements Alex uses? Why does Jonah not answer Alex at the end of the chapter? The goal is to be profitable. In another word‚ the goal of a manufacturing organization and all organizations in general is to make money. Alex uses productivity as a measurement. In deed‚ the robots increased the
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but still he ended up using practical wisdom. No matter the area of life there is always an opportunity to do the right thing‚ in the right way‚ that is moral wisdom. The universe has demonstrated through the first created human beings Adam and Eve‚ that moral wisdom is one of the first key virtues in the very beginning. It was shown through them consequences of not using practical wisdom for right reason and in the right way. Through their lack of wisdom and not being virtuous‚ the whole human
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replaced by permanent ones usually during the beginning of teenage years (“Tooth Anatomy”). A special kind of teeth‚ the wisdom teeth or the third molar appears on later ages. This will be the main topic of this mini-paper. We are going to look at the anthropological context and meaning of it. We are going to focus on the archaeological‚ cultural‚ and biological aspects of the wisdom teeth. We will also look at the cultural symbolisms and evolutionary aspects and explain them through anthropological
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The Goal The Goal‚ by Eliyahu Goldratt is a novel focused on the challenges and improvement of operational efficiency. The book is about Alex Rogo‚ a thirty something year old‚ probably has an undergraduate degree in engineering and an MBA. He is married with 2 children‚ working as an executive for UniCo for the past 15 years. He began his career as project engineer‚ now works as a plant manager of manufacturing factory in Bearington‚ his home town. His boss is Bill Peach‚ division manager at the
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Book Review of "Goal" 1. What is the problem? Alex Rogo was a plant manager at the Barrington Plant of Uniware‚ a division of UniCo. One day Bill Peach‚ division vice president visited his plant and found that there were lots of problems with schedule arrangement‚ quality‚ cost & inventory control in his plant. These problems had already made the organization lose money. At last Bill gave Alex three months to improve‚ otherwise‚ the plant would be closed. Three months?! That was all Alex Rogo was
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