The, The Goal, By Eliyahu M. Goldratt And Jeff Cox

Australia is filled with many different aspects in which makes it the country it is today. I believe it is important to study texts that explore aspects of Australia by studying texts such as ‘The Club’, by David Williamson, a play written in 1977 about an Australian football club and movies such as “The Castle”, directed by Rob Stitch in 1997, about the daily life of an Australian family when their happiness is threatened when developers attempt to buy their house to expand the neighboring airport. Both these texts show us what Australian life was like in the past. By us looking at themes such as language, tradition and the mateship shown we are able to explore different aspects of Australia that make it what it is today.

Critical Chain by Eliyahu Goldratt was very similar to his previous novel entitled The Goal in the point that it elaborated on many concepts that were used to create improvements in the business world. Some of these concepts included a detailed explanation of the theory of constraints, bottlenecks and project time management.

After our class viewing of the Age of Champions as well as reading the numerous articles including one by Rowe & Kahn, it is clear that there is a variety of ways people can view the term “aging successfully.” A variety of gerontologists have similarities and differences in their definition of the term, and this paper will compare some of the athletes from the film these definitions.

The universe doesn’t owe you, me, or anyone a thing, except for death. Though as kids most of us were led to believe that with enough effort and hard work were going to become whatever we wanted to be, we were going to have whatever our little hearts desired, and we were going to do whatever we wanted to do. However, as we grew up we realized that this is not the case. There are millions of people who did not become professional athletes, models, or billionaires, people who never got to have the mansions, cars, and fame that they always longed for, people who never got to travel the world, cure cancer, or fly into space. These are all mostly childlike dreams, which were probably imposed unto us by either our parents or society. There’s nothing wrong with children having these sort of improbable dreams, however, there comes a time where we can no longer be children. In the story Tandolfo the Great, written by Richard Bausch, we are introduced to Rodney Wilbury aka Tandolfo the Great, who is a suitable example to demonstrate what life can be like for those who are unable to grow out of their childlike mind sets. In this analysis I will be inspecting how Tandolfo the Great’s childish mind set, from his strong sense of entitlement to his inability to let go of the past events, has almost destroyed his life and how it can destroy anyone else’s.

Alex comes up with the consensus that the “Goal” of his business and many others is to increase net profit while simultaneously increasing return on investment and their cash flow at the plant. This basically means to make money. These three measurements can be achieved by looking closer into his second set of measurements. Alex specifically must find a way to increase throughput while at the same time decreasing it inventory and operational expenses. All three of these measurements must be cautiously monitored since they all rely on each other to be obtained in balance. Factors that cause throughput, inventory, and operational expenses to become unbalanced are excess manpower and balance capacity of the demand of resources in the market.

The Promise by Chaim Potok   1.In 10-12 sentences, write a brief outline of the plot of the novel. Be sure to make clear the major conflict of the story.   1.In the beginning of the novel, the main character, Reuben, is spending some time with his father at their cottage. His friend, Rachel is also vacationing nearby. Reuben finds out that Rachel's 14 year old cousin, Michael, is mentally ill, and Reuben seems to be the only person Michael will talk to.

In More Than A Champion by Jan Philipp Reemtsma , Muhammad Ali is one of the greatest boxers to ever step foot in the ring. His success in the ring has left a great legacy for other boxers to follow. Ali’s style of boxing was well known by his fans and people all over the world.

Just as Steinbeck diverges from the usual interpretation of Charles and Caleb as Cain, he does too in the cases of Adam and Aron as the biblical Abel. Abel is originally described as the good one, the innocent and more likeable, after all it was his gift that God preferred over Cain’s. This is also the case of Adam’s son Aron, that Aron is the preferred son over Caleb.

If you moved to a new country with a different language and no friends; what would you do? In the story “Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan a young girl moves to America with her mother struggles to survive in America. The young girl is name Waverly and she is a intelligent girl but she does know everything about life. The mother is a controlling mother and boss around Waverly. In the story Waverly mother finds out how to be a true family in america, and Waverly learned the way of invisible strength.

The first major event is when Jonah and Alex met up in the airport and came to the realization of what Alex is doing is not the way he should go about running his business operations. Alex’s goal was all about making money. It was not about productivity. When Alex was explaining what his goals were, his answers were all related to the numbers. Increasing net profit, having a high return on his investments and getting positive cash flows to help sustain the plant. Although those are imperative to have and learn from a financial perspective, Alex did not understand that and from his position, an operations management perspective, it should be about productivity. From those statistics, in production means, they will improve in the plant through increasing the throughput, and decreasing the inventory and operational expenses. Jonah states, “There are three of them. Their names are throughput, inventory and operational expense.(Goldratt, pg.60)”. Jonah defines throughput as the rate at which the system generates money through sales”. Then he

When reading “The Goal” by Eliyahu Goldratt, the first thing that came to mind was the exposure of many issues that are currently happening in companies, especially in the manufacturing industry. For the last ten years that I have worked in the manufacturing world, I have been exposed to a range of positions (from manufacturing clerk to production control planner, and most recently customer service representative) which allowed me to witness a great deal of these types of conflicts happening in real life. In many occasions, I was directly involved, due to the nature of my job position in finding solutions and handling emergencies that would help my company meet product deadlines, as many of us said, making the impossible, possible.

When I initially received my copy of The Goal: A process of ongoing improvement by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox, I assumed it would be your standard business book with dry statistics and nothing that would actually constitute as a story. I was pleasantly surprised that it was actually a well-developed story that kept me entertained and coincided with many point that were just being taught in our Supply Chain Management class (as I had finished the book relatively soon). The Goal covered both business stand points as well as work-life balance or in this case, the initial lack thereof. I felt that The Goal brought up productivity, efficiency, overproduction, as well as excess material issues. This book is a good example of some of the seven deadly wastes mentioned in earlier SCM classes, as well as how it affected their business and how it is possible to counteract each one.

Argyres, N. & McGahan, M. A., 2002. An interview with Michael Porter. The Academy of Management executive , 16(2), pp. 43-52.

John Edlund, Brad Sagarin, and Brian Johnson are three researchers at Northern Illinois University whom were interested in studying reciprocity. Reciprocity is an important social norm in relationships and exists in some form in every society. The article begins with some examples of reciprocity all over world, such in the 1960s and 70s with the Hare Krishnas. The members of the temple gave small gifts to travelers such as a flower, in order to receive a donation. Or another study in 1971 that was conducted in a laboratory and performed by a researcher named Reagan. This study discovered that reciprocity does not need to be returned in the same manner that it was given. Even with all these examples of situation constraints, the researchers found no reports on the individual differences in reciprocity. Therefore, they decided to investigate one potential moderator in a reciprocity relationship which was a belief in a just world.

Jonah explains to him that the first thing he has to do is to identify dependent events (“events in which the output of one event influences the input to another event”) and statistical fluctuations (“common cause variations in output quantity or quality”). Alex doesn’t understand what Jonah is talking about and how these two terms can be the problem if his plant, especially taking into consideration that the calculated efficiency of his plant is high. He doesn’t believe that these are the reason for late orders.