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Re:The chip shortage keeps getting worse – why can't we just... by jiveturkey on Monday September 06, 2021 @02:23AM (#28430994)
> one of the books that popularized Lean manufacturing, Eli Goldblatt's "The Goal",

Turns out it's Goldratt. Very difficult to read as it is in the form of a melodrama. I suppose the point was to make it light reading, but to me it's a difficult slog through the protagonist's personal life to get to the data I want.

Re:The chip shortage keeps getting worse – why can't we just... by mpyne on Monday September 06, 2021 @09:43AM (#28433545)
Thanks for the correction. You're right, the point is to make it easier to approach for business minded readers (his son even recently got someone to turn it into a graphic novel). Same tradition later picked up by Unicorn Project and Phoenix Project by Gene Kim.