It's Not Luck by Eliyahu Goldratt
Book Review - 3 Stars
I first read "It's Not Luck" when it was first published in 1994, I read it again a few years later and I have just finished reading it again and it remains an extremely disappointing book.
I loved "The Goal" by Eli Goldratt. It was an insightful business book which revealed simple and powerful ideas through a fast paced and engaging story. It brought the Theory of Constraints to the world and challenged some of the new ideas coming out to right the ills of 1980s/1990s accounting.
"It's Not Luck" is a pale shadow of it's famous predecessor.
And here's why.
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The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox
Book Review Rating - 5 Stars
"The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement" is an absolute classic book for anyone who is concerned with improving the performance of a manufacturing business or with process improvement in general.
First published in 1984 this book introduced the world to the Theory of Constraints and how much of the focus on improvement is misguided at best and wrong at worst.
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Reaching The Goal by John Arthur Ricketts
Book Impression
The full title of this book is "Reaching The Goal: How Managers Improve A Services Business Using Goldratt's Theory Of Constraints".
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Breaking The Bottleneck! 10 Profitable Ways To Make The "Theory Of Constraints" Work in Services by Neil R Jamieson MA MBA
Book Impressions
I am working on something in particular so I have ordered a big group of business books including Breaking The Bottleneck by Neil Jamieson and I thought I would start splitting my review into two elements:
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