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Gino Wickman • Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business
The Goal, which laid out his “Theory of Constraints.” Goldratt’s theory explains that any system with a goal has one limit, and worrying about anything other than that limit is a waste of resources. If an assembly has three sections, and two of those sections can produce one hundred units per hour while the third can only produce fifty units per ho
... See moreTaylor Pearson • The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5
The key to both Bruce’s and Cindy’s efforts is that their planning produced tasks that had to be performed now in order to affect future events.
Andrew S. Grove • High Output Management
The “x” factor: identify the chokepoint in your business model and industry and then gain control of that chokepoint.
Verne Harnish • Mastering the Rockefeller Habits
Doing: Performing a task, with as much of an experimental frame of mind as possible.
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
“Is what I’m doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?”That
Robert C. Townsend • Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits (J-B Warren Bennis Series)
It's not like investing in a new company or like investing in a building or a machine. You put out so much money and what do you have in your hands? Nothing you can resell, nothing you can offer as collateral.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt • Necessary but Not Sufficient: A Theory of Constraints Business Novel
Then the game changes. The constraints become more complex.