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The Goal

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you are productive you are accomplishing something in terms of your goal, right? — location: 689 ^ref-40206

productivity is meaningless unless you know what your goal is, — location: 698 ^ref-451

you cannot understand the meaning of productivity unless you know what the goal is. Until then, you’re just playing a lot of games with numbers and words. — location: 716 ^ref-42207

there is more than one way to express the goal. Do you understand? The goal stays the same, but we can state it in different ways, ways which mean the same thing as those two words, ‘making money. — location: 1196 ^ref-39007

throughput, inventory and operational expense. — location: 1204 ^ref-18684

“Throughput,” he says, “is the rate at which the system generates money through sales.” — location: 1207 ^ref-42435

sales— not production. If you produce something, but don’t sell it, it’s not throughput. Got it? — location: 1210 ^ref-33330

“Inventory is all the money that the system has invested in purchasing things which it intends to sell. — location: 1216 ^ref-31525

“Operational expense is all the money the system spends in order to turn inventory into throughput. — location: 1219 ^ref-12123

obviously you have to express the goal in terms of the measurements, — location: 1230 ^ref-64660

about deriving operational rules — location: 1238 ^ref-26536

if he hadn’t been so busy worrying he would have looked before he crossed the street. — location: 1309 ^ref-18873