The Goal

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Building a Successful Future Through The Goal 1). Identify and discuss the 3 most important things about business that you learned by reading The Goal. (300 word minimum) By reading The Goal, I learned many new things about business. I also saw many of my personal beliefs reaffirmed due to such a prominent figure voicing those same beliefs. However, the three most important things that I took away from The Goal is that the Socratic Method can alleviate many hindrances regardless of the situation, being adaptive to the situation is what sets apart mediocrity from success, and that productivity cannot necessarily be derived from a mathematical formula. Firstly, The Goal taught me that the Socratic Method is not an irrelevant …show more content…

I have consistently held this believe, but this book, once again, reaffirmed a belief I have always supported. Although, a formula can give you a good idea of where you are and where you need to go. Productivity is the incremental steps one takes toward successfully accomplishing one’s goals. In a business’s case, it is to make money. Any action that does not bring a business closer to its goals is not productive, as Jonah explained in Chapter 4. Alex believes one of his goals is efficiency. However, efficiency is just a side effect of accomplishing the true goal of any business which is to make money. As I stated earlier, businesses often use statistics, numbers, formulas, and phrases to give a more optimistic outlook on the state of things than they may actually be. As Alex thought to himself in Chapter 5, “You’re just playing a lot of games with numbers and words.” A real business leader will assess a situation, analyze what problems are preventing him or her from making money, use logic to deduce what path to take to fix those problems, and when business gets tough, he or she will adapt to what the market …show more content…

I am currently the general manager of a local restaurant. While many of the duties of running a restaurant are shared between the owner of the restaurant and I, I still have a lot of room to make an impact. I plan to use what I have learned from The Goal and my position as general manager to make the restaurant a success, i.e. to aid the restaurant in making money. The three things that I will do is realize that a restaurant is just like any other business in the sense that its main goal needs to be to make money, create a system that works for the restaurant to make money, and I would be adaptive to trends in the

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