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Cover of The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

The Goal

Eliyahu M. Goldratt · 1986
Mentioned 20 times across 10 podcasts · 2019–2026
Mention timeline20 mentions
20192026
Where it's mentioned
2026
How Elon Musk Solves Problems | Jon McNeill
The Knowledge Project · Nov 2026
“A book called The Goal. Which is by Ellie Gulrat, who's an MIT professor”
1193: How to Build a Team That Can Thrive Without You with Bill Flynn
How to Be Awesome at Your Job · Oct 2026
“I think about the book The Goal about in manufacturing. It's like what are we trying to do here”
Why Logic Alone Can't Explain the Human Mind (with Tom Griffiths)
A Productive Conversation · Aug 2026
“the theory of constraints from the book The Goal”
1157: How to Improve Processes, Remove Friction, and Accelerate Innovation with Jon McNeill
How to Be Awesome at Your Job · Jun 2026
“one is The Goal, which taught me a completely different way of looking at business by Ellie Golrat”
RWH068: How to Be Better in Work & Life w/ David Epstein
The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network · May 2026
“He wrote this bizarre but interesting novel. called the goal about a plant manager who has to save his factory”
Why Do Better Tools Make Me Worse at My Job? (w/ David Epstein) | Monday Advice
Deep Questions with Cal Newport · May 2026
“It was called The Goal, and it was what Goldratt described as a business novel”
Ex-Tesla President reveals EVERYTHING Elon does to win
My First Million · Apr 2026
“this Favorite book, The Goal, which is all about manufacturing process”
Why Doing Nothing Might Be the Most Human Thing You Can Do (PM Talks S3E4)
A Productive Conversation · Apr 2026
“I started to think about even books like The Goal, about the theory of constraints”
2025
Anthropic’s CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jun 2025
“I don't know if you've ever read, is it the goal, the classic like process optimization book”
2024
#366 Mr. Beast Leaked Memo
Founders · Sep 2024
“I'd love you to read the book, The Goal”
2023
Alexis Rivas - A New Blueprint for Homebuilding - [Invest Like the Best, EP.326]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Apr 2023
“The single most influential Manufacturing philosophy. It's been my theory of constraints. The goal. The class but the goal”
Thinking beyond frameworks | Casey Winters (Pinterest, Eventbrite, Airbnb, Tinder, Canva, Reddit, Grubhub)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Mar 2023
“Definitely The Goal. by Eliyahu Goldrat”
An inside look at Mixpanel’s product journey | Vijay Iyengar (Head of Product)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jan 2023
“there's this book called The Goal. By Eliya Goldrad”
2022
How to sell your ideas and rise within your company | Casey Winters, Eventbrite
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jul 2022
“it mapped to my mind better as someone who's like really influenced, you know, by the book, the goal”
Antonio Gracias - Pro-Entropic Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 271]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Apr 2022
“I went to a friend of mine who's in business school and said, which I read. And he told me read this book called The Goal, which is great”
2021
#547: Balaji Srinivasan — Centralized China vs Decentralized World, The DeFi Matrix, Ascending vs Descending Trends, Bitcoin Mining as Energy Storage, Reputational Civil War, and Maximalism vs. Optimalism
The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2021
“Also Eliyahu Goldrat's book, The Goal”
#514: Chip Wilson — Building Lululemon, The Art of Setting Goals, and The 10 Great Decisions of Your Life
The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2021
“The Goal by Goldblatt, and it's really a a fiction book, very fun to read about the constraint theory of production”
#179 Jeff Bezos
Founders · May 2021
“It's called the Gull. It was published in nineteen eighty four. The book Cloaked in the guise of an entertaining novel. instructs manufacturers to focus on maximizing The efficiency of their biggest bottleneck”
2020
#77 Mike Maples: Living in the Future
The Knowledge Project · Mar 2020
“a book called The Goal that I'm a huge fan of”
2019
#369: Kevin Systrom — Tactics, Books, and the Path to a Billion Users
The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2019
“Have you ever read the book The Goal”