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The Goal, by Eliyahu M. Goldratt examines the life of an American plant manger in his quest to find out what exactly the goal of a plant manager is and how to go about reaching this goal. Along the way towards realizing the goal, the plant manager is forced define and understand the theory of constraints. It is important to understand the theory of constraints for the manager to be able to identify what restrictions are being opposed onto his various operations and to know how to reverse their affects. In this particular case it takes the manager having to continually deal with orders being finished late and therefore unsatisfied customers and an irate employer in order to realize that serious problems are occurring within his plant.Once the goal, which inevitably turns out to be money, is found, it is imperative to figure out how to express the goal in the form of a measurement. Three measurements are able to not only express the goal of making money, but also make it possible for......

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