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The Goal
Business
A novelised crash course in the Theory of Constraints: a plant manager learns to find the single bottleneck in any system and subordinate everything else to it. Adopted as the operating bible of Jeff Wilke and the team that rebuilt Amazon's fulfillment network into a throughput-maximizing machine.
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Jeff Bezos
Farnam Street, summarizing Brad Stone, reports that The Goal was the working bible of Jeff Wilke and the operations team that rebuilt Amazon's fulfillment network around bottleneck throughput.
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Kevin Systrom
“It is a book about basically manufacturing and supply chain management. It sounds really boring, but I promise you it's really good.”
Bookmarked.club cites the Tim Ferriss Show transcript where Systrom discusses the book.
- Patrick Collison