J. M. Barrie

Introduction The Goal is a work of fiction that illustrates how manufacturing plants should (and should not) operate in order to maximize the success of the business. The book is told from the perspective of the manager of a manufacturing plant of the UniCo Corporation, Alex Rogo. The plant has been in a constant state of chaos since before Alex became the manager six months ago, as have many (if not all) of the other UniCo plants. Orders are constantly behind schedule, which eventually leads to…

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What? People do not know who Charles M. Schulz is! Well he had a good life and people around the world do not know anything about it. He is a very talented man who had a exciting early life, he also had a pretty interesting and tiring career with a lot of fans behind him, but he did have a pretty great after life too. With all his loved ones there for him and the Peanut’s right behind him in thought . The Peanut’s started out being just a thought in Charles live, but throughout his life…

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By 1909 many technological inventions that are still used today had already been invented. At the same time, however, there was still so much that the world had not yet seen nor expected. E.M. Forster, realizing the longevity of the era of technology, wrote “The Machine Stops,” in which he imagined a futuristic world entirely consumed by “The Machine”—a world that had witnessed incredible technological advances, but had also seen the almost complete reversal of human social skills. Forster uses…

“If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?” Wrote Stephen Hawking, but perhaps people from the future do walk amongst us, and we just do not notice them due to them having learned how to blend in. All they would have got to do is to research the dress and mannerisms of our time, and now they are hidden in plain sight. However, what if a person from a hundred years ago were to visit us now? We would probably think they were just a crazy, weirdly dressed homeless person…

The goal is a novel that tells of plant manager, Alex Rogo who is having difficulties and trying to save his plant within a time frame of three months. The problem he was facing was that, he and his team were not able to consistently deliver product on time at a cost that beats their competitors. If by three months there was no change in terms of profitability, his boss threatened to close down the plant. In his struggle to save his plant, he was sent to Houston to be on a panel to talk about…