La meta (1984)
La meta is a 1984 fiction book written by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox.
Alex Rogo has three months to save a failing manufacturing plant or watch it close. Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox tell the turnaround as a novel, following Rogo and his team as they stop trusting received wisdom about efficiency and start reasoning from cause and effect. Their breakthrough becomes the Theory of Constraints: every system is held back by a small number of bottlenecks, and improving anything else is wasted motion. The plant plot carries a genuine method, which is why business schools still assign it. Brisk and argument-driven, it teaches operations thinking without a single lecture.
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What is La meta about?
Alex Rogo has three months to save a failing manufacturing plant or watch it close. Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox tell the turnaround as a novel, following Rogo and his team as they stop trusting received wisdom about efficiency and start reasoning from cause and effect. Their breakthrough becomes the Theory of Constraints: every system is held back by a small number of bottlenecks, and improving anything else is wasted motion. The plant plot carries a genuine method, which is why business schools still assign it. Brisk and argument-driven, it teaches operations thinking without a single lecture.
When was La meta published?
La meta was published in 1984.
Who made La meta?
La meta was written by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox.
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Moneyball works as a screen companion, another story of a struggling operation rebuilt by ignoring conventional wisdom and following the numbers to the real constraint. Both find drama in the unglamorous work of measuring the right thing.