Daniel Maxted
“The Goal Paper”
Dr. Gerber
Nov. 27 2017
The Goals We Set
In The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt a story of an underperforming plant is unrolled while the main character, Alex Rogo, does everything he can to keep the company above water. Alex is a “38-year-old crummy plant manager” who has a fire ignite in him when he hears that his plant has 3 months left before the company is sold. While in his goal setting meeting with his boss, Mr. Peach, he remembers running into his old physics professor, Jonah, and the predictions he had about his company. Alex leaves the meeting to find out the goal that everyone else was overlooking. Making money. Alex goes to find Jonah and is told about the 3 things he can classify his problems into: throughput, …show more content…
I am able to use that theory in my everyday life very often to solve many problems and is a great tool for critical thinking and problem solving. I am able to use that thinking while fixing problems within my fraternity and once I go on co-op I feel it will be very useful. Industrial engineering is all about reducing wastes and part of that, to me, is doing something right the first time. Without finding the root cause of the problem it will never be solves. It is much like cutting grass and weeds. If you cut them they will be gone for a while but the rain will keep watering it and the sun will keep shining and the weeds will come back. If you don’t pull it from the root it will always come back because of the factors that are inevitable, unless the root cause is removed. In addition to this, I think a highly overlooked lesson in the book was the use of the Socratic Method. My father has told me forever that people won’t listen to you unless they think it’s their idea. My father was a recruiter in the Air National Guard for 15 years and was a great supervisor, and part of that was his way of motivating others to come up with their own ideas to keep the passion within his workers. Socratic method is a very useful tool to remember as a manager but also as an entry level worker. A lot of times the bosses won’t listen to their underlings ideas, so much so that Toyota has dedicated it as one of the seven mudas, but with Socratic method the underling can place their idea into their bosses mind and have them accept it without rejection because of
“The Goal Paper”
Dr. Gerber
Nov. 27 2017
The Goals We Set
In The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt a story of an underperforming plant is unrolled while the main character, Alex Rogo, does everything he can to keep the company above water. Alex is a “38-year-old crummy plant manager” who has a fire ignite in him when he hears that his plant has 3 months left before the company is sold. While in his goal setting meeting with his boss, Mr. Peach, he remembers running into his old physics professor, Jonah, and the predictions he had about his company. Alex leaves the meeting to find out the goal that everyone else was overlooking. Making money. Alex goes to find Jonah and is told about the 3 things he can classify his problems into: throughput, …show more content…
I am able to use that theory in my everyday life very often to solve many problems and is a great tool for critical thinking and problem solving. I am able to use that thinking while fixing problems within my fraternity and once I go on co-op I feel it will be very useful. Industrial engineering is all about reducing wastes and part of that, to me, is doing something right the first time. Without finding the root cause of the problem it will never be solves. It is much like cutting grass and weeds. If you cut them they will be gone for a while but the rain will keep watering it and the sun will keep shining and the weeds will come back. If you don’t pull it from the root it will always come back because of the factors that are inevitable, unless the root cause is removed. In addition to this, I think a highly overlooked lesson in the book was the use of the Socratic Method. My father has told me forever that people won’t listen to you unless they think it’s their idea. My father was a recruiter in the Air National Guard for 15 years and was a great supervisor, and part of that was his way of motivating others to come up with their own ideas to keep the passion within his workers. Socratic method is a very useful tool to remember as a manager but also as an entry level worker. A lot of times the bosses won’t listen to their underlings ideas, so much so that Toyota has dedicated it as one of the seven mudas, but with Socratic method the underling can place their idea into their bosses mind and have them accept it without rejection because of