Book · 2016 · Fiction, romance, contemporary
The Goal
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We read the goal and have read the goal right and so it turns out there's never one constraint there's always just the latest constraint.
The best things said about it
Well I had read this book called the goal and this was towards the end of Instagram by the way we'd figured this out many years into instrum.
Kevin Systrom The Jordan Harbinger Show · Jul 2020 And uh and Elon and I had shared this this favorite book, The Goal, which is all about manufacturing process.
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Why people recommend it
The Goal by Elle Kennedy is a popular business and manufacturing management novel structured around the Theory of Constraints. Matt Garman brought up the book on the a16z Podcast to illustrate complex engineering and cloud infrastructure principles, noting that in operational systems there is never just one single bottleneck, but rather a continuous succession of the latest constraints. Similarly, an episode of My First Million featured a discussion in which the host noted that he and Elon Musk shared the book as a mutual favorite, praising its insights into manufacturing processes and production pipelines at Tesla. Kevin Systrom also mentioned the book on The Jordan Harbinger Show, explaining that he had read it toward the end of his tenure at Instagram, utilizing its core concepts regarding bottlenecks and manufacturing efficiency to solve operational challenges in building a billion-dollar technology business. Across these technology and business podcasts, leaders and founders frequently cited the narrative as an essential guiding framework for identifying operational roadblocks, scaling production, and refining organizational decision-making processes.
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Kevin Systrom well I had read this book called the goal and this was towards the end of Instagram by the way we'd figured… 1
“well I had read this book called the goal and this was towards the end of Instagram by the way we'd figured this out many years into instrum”
Matt Garman we read the goal and have read the goal right and so it turns out there's never one constraint there's alwa… 1
“we read the goal and have read the goal right and so it turns out there's never one constraint there's always just the latest constraint”
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“And uh and Elon and I had shared this this favorite book, The Goal, which is all about manufacturing process.”
