The concepts presented by Mr. Goldratt form the basis on my business consulting business. I have coupled them with my extensive accounting experience and business background and further combined lean manufacturing ideas to make my approach (I believe) the best around. I promote a continuous improvement process utilizing key employees to improve profitability and strongly encourage a sharing of those profits with employees to reward and further harness their energies. In doing so, the business can improve day to day, month to month, and year to year indefinitely. It's really that powerful. Mr. Goldratt's book is sometimes quirky, but the concepts he pushes is a true foundation for success.

It's a classic. It's also easy to read, as it's in a narrative style.... a little bit addictive, actually: a management book that is a page turner? Certainly not dry or boring.
And still very relevant today: while set in a manufacturing plant, it has made me think quite differently about bushwalking, playing factorio and - most importantly - how I run teams of software engineers.

I read this in a manufacturing class. I definitely recommend ToC for those trying to build any type of business. I believe some of the principles taught in this book is a good stepping stone to eventual adoption to Lean manufacturing. I liked how the book described manufacturing principles and broke them down that any person could understand.

This book it written really cheesy. He uses, "life examples" to explain his concepts, they're really cheesy. However, he explains very critical themes in this book and they are very to understand. Its definetly a good read if you are oriented in manufacturing.