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Goldratt is the real thing,
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This review is from: The Choice (Paperback)
He's the consultant's consultant, the Mycroft to our Sherlock. This book as usual is deep, profound and a game changer. The reasoning solid to the core, the precepts explained lucidly and congruently. I love what it's doing to my thinking, giving it an added dimension of insight that wasn't there before, untangling earlier confusions, and it's ability to bring together all of his previos materials on TOC, the thinking tools etc back into a coherent systemic whole.
Thank you Dr. Goldratt. As always you're beyond amazing.
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4.5 out of 5 stars (11 customer reviews) 18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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Finding the Deeper Meaning of the Theory of Constraints,
By James R. Holt "Dr Holt" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Choice (Paperback)
In The Choice, Eli Goldratt exposes the deep, underlying principles of life embodied in TOC. People are Good. People Think. Emotion is Logical. All Conflicts can be Eliminated. There are always Win-Win Solutions. Systems are Simple. Systems can be Improved Infinitely. Taken together, everyone should succeed. Then, why not? Dr. Goldratt teaches us in a very carefully written way how to find the errors we make and how to correct them. I urge you to read The Choice through quickly, and then read it again slowly, thoughtfully several times. The material talks much of distribution, but it is about living your life. To have a meaningful life is up to you; you make The Choice.
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Relevant, interesting and meaningful.,
By Andres Jaramillo - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Choice (Paperback)
By reading The Goal (Goldratt's most famous book), a number of years back, at the insistance of a very wise owl, and with reluctance, since I tend to despise typical MBA's readings, I was able to increase productivity by over 20% without investing a dime and turn one of my companies around in less than a week. So I was eager and excited to read Goldratt's The Choice. Though less earth-shattering (and less counter-intuitive) than The Goal, it is none-the-less a very interesting, meaningful and relevant book about not only how to solve business problems, but also how to think clearly and improve any area of life.
The style of the book is rather self-conscious and at times unnervingly patronizing. The main deffect of The Goal (the friction generated by the style, at the same time childish and patronizing) is exacerbated in this book, told in the voice of Goldratt's daughter. It is unnerving, because the energy spent trying to make the narrative believable, takes away from the smooth flow of the important ideas. It is also strange to have the narrator (the daughter) tell us in syrupy ways what a genius her father is, when we know the author is the father! (an excessively contrived, yet inneffective device). I also found fault with the chapter on tautologies and circular logic. Tautologies are not what Goldratt thinks they are, strictly speaking. And, hoping not to sound too petty, the use of "then" instead of "than" (more then -err, than- once) was my minor editorial pet peeve. The truly enjoyable parts of the book are "the reports" that the father sends the daughter. Even if they are just stylizations of real-life situations, they are very illustrative of what is possible with a little clear thinking. After reading the book, I am eager to generate "quantum change", and take my companies to net profits equal to my current revenues. It must be said that despite being a self proclaimed "true scientist", Goldratt's approach is "integral" (or "holistic" -at the risk of scaring you with New-Agy terminology-) in the sense that it is not a valueless, flat, reductionist approach to life, but quite the contrary, an embrace of the interrelation of Emotions, Intuition and Logic, and how it relates to "living a full life". It spouses a synergistic (again, apologies for the term) approach to conflict and contradictions and an integral notion of knowledge and knowing. 5 stars for content, 2 stars for style, equals 4 stars total (since I give more weight to the first). 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Solid and highly recommended reading,
By Midwest Book Review - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Choice (Paperback)
A man of many talents, including both science and business, Eliyahu Goldratt goes philosophical in "The Choice". Aiming to make his readers think, he questions the decisions we as people make during day to day life. Decisions are decisions even when they are not obviously so, from religious belief to deciding one knows of something when they don't have the whole story. A must for anyone who likes to think and have their minds and world views challenged, "The Choice" is solid and highly recommended reading.
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