Agile and ToC Books.
That get to the point. Fast.
I don’t want to fill your head with theory.
I want to teach you how to use ToC in the real world.
I’ve cherry-picked ToC. Simplified it. Modernised it.
Why? So you get results. Fast.
Books for your bottleneck and ToC journey
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Stuck?
Winston Churchill’s champagne bubble baths have something to teach us about solving (seemingly) impossible problems. So pick up my latest book, CorkScrew Solutions: Problem Solving With a Twist.
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What if Agile was your Competitive Advantage?
Thousands of readers read Rolling Rocks Downhill, and many software development businesses use it to train their teams. It’s like a flight simulator for applying Agile and ToC in the real world.
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New to ToC?
Dive into The Bottleneck Rules, my Amazon bestseller. It cherry-picks, simplifies and modernises the ToC Bible, Eli Goldratt’s The Goal (1984), so you can put ToC to work quickly.
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Cash Constrained?
What if you could easily get 80% of the benefits of Agile without changing how you build software? Rocks Into Gold is my short business parable about Agile that never mentions “Agile.”
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If Eli Goldratt were in the room, what would you ask him?
In November 2009, I interviewed Eli about his latest business novel Isn’t It Obvious? In true Eli fashion he spent the next hour explaining the Six Lessons he had hidden in the book—none of which, I confess, were obvious to me at the time. This book is a lightly edited transcript of that 60-minute chat.
What people are saying.
★★★★★
I've been reading Goldratt for 20 years. I’m an academic type and I love the idealism in his writings. However, I couldn’t translate his works down to the shop floor to get buy-in. Clarke has done the translation for me! Clarke’s work really helps everyone in our organization understand ToC and our buy-in has gone through the roof!
— Len Morris, Owner and CEO, StairSupplies.com and ViewRail.com
★★★★★
Clarke’s writing is a gift. It leaves no sense of self-promotion and enchantment with self that one frequently finds with subject matter experts. His writing is brilliantly accessible. He manages to articulate complexity with elegant simplicity. Well worth spending time on his work, not only from a Theory of Constraints and/or Agile, etc perspective but from a generic “logical thinking” perspective.
— Geraldine Schoeman, Long Term Expert at GOPA Consulting Group