In 1986, he followed The Goal up with The Race, in which he explains his Drum-Buffer-Rope concept, which elaborates on the Theory of Constraints and lays out its application more technically in a manufacturing environment. Over the course of his career, Goldratt developed numerous management and manufacturing innovations which he disseminated by writing business novels and non-fiction manuals. He co-authored The Goal early in his writing career in 1984, and he’s since contributed to such best-selling business novels as Hanging Fire, Selling the Wheel, The Quadrant Solution, and Zapp. Jeff Cox is the co-author of numerous business novels. Through the course of his career, Goldratt continually pushed businesspeople to challenge their own assumptions and rethink traditional processes. He formed research and consulting groups, and he developed several more influential manufacturing management concepts such as Thinking Processes, the Drum-Buffer-Rope method, and Critical Chain Project Management. Even so, Goldratt continued writing business books and building on his Theory of Constraints that he introduced in The Goal. Although the book eventually became successful, Goldratt and his shareholders noticed that managers were now using their principles but not buying their company’s technology, which eventually led to declining sales and Goldratt’s termination. To try to explain why managers must change their basic assumptions, Goldratt spent 13 months writing his debut business novel, The Goal, which conveyed the basic principles that drove his company’s technology. Although many publications lauded the technology as a revolutionary tool, Goldratt realized that managers often held their same backwards assumptions that they had before using the tool, even after trying to implement it in their factories, which negated any positive effects.

After spending years consulting for Israeli manufacturers, Goldratt joined a software company to help develop a new technology that could optimize production schedules for factories. Eliyahu Goldratt obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Tel Aviv before moving to Ramat Gan, Israel, where he earned his Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degree.

His father was Israeli journalist and politician Avraham-Yehuda Goldratt. Eliyahu Goldratt was born into a Rabbinic Jewish family in 1947, the year before Israel achieved official statehood.

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