Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Thinkers1947 to 2011Management theorist

Works

  • The Goal (with Jeff Cox), 1984
  • It's Not Luck, 1994
  • Critical Chain, 1997

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An Israeli physicist turned management thinker who created the theory of constraints, which holds that a system's output is limited by its constraint and that improvement means finding, exploiting, and elevating it. He taught it through business novels, adding the thinking processes in It's Not Luck and applying it to project scheduling in Critical Chain.

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