The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt is about a man named Alex Rogo and the problems he encounters as a company he works for – UniCo – faces financial problems. The novel starts off describing Alex going to work. He arrives at his job, only to notice that someone took his parking spot. The man who did this is Bill Peach, the division’s vice president and Alex’ boss. Bill says he came to see the progress of order #41427, which is seven weeks late. Later, however, it seems that there is a bigger reason Bill came to see
