Excellent Book But Doesn't Stand Alone

I've read this book several times. It does a wonderful job teaching when to apply the various TOC tools and a little on how. Depending on what you are doing, I recommend combining It's Not Luck with Thinking for a Change by Scheinkopf and/or Throughput Accounting. Most people need both the 10,000' view from The Goal, The Race and It's Not Luck and the details provided by the APICS series and some of the North River Press books. Take care when purchasing detailed books, since the quality varies greatly.

Boorish and Self Gratifying

I gave up reading this ridiculous book 2/3 of the way through and feel cheated of 10 hours of my life. I have never quit a book midway through).

The entire premise of this pile of kaka can be summarized as follows: All conflict has one or two root causes - if you can determine those causes, you can solve your conflict.

Don't waste your money on this author's thinly disquised self-elevating drivel. How much did I hate this book? Enough to take the time to write a review. You will learn more by renting "Dumb and Dumber" than you will by reading this book.

I wish I could rate it lower. I want my money back.

Disappointment

It's not luck is another novel about Mr. Rogo and his career. Where the first novel (the Goal) introduced a number of concepts relating to manufacturing, this one tries to convince us that the nowadays VP of a group magically discovers the definition and use of Marketing halfway through the book (who promotes a guy to a VP position without the guy knowing at least the basics about marketing?). Another revelation he magically puts on us is that Knowledge Managament is a very important concept, as well as the revelation that the book value of a company is different from the real value. Sigh, this is taught in every MBA course in existence (at least it should be). Furthermore, we should believe that the main character who is obviously severely brain-damaged (together with his apple-pie family), yet manages to become CEO of a large conglomerate? The author is hailed like a genius that has discovered so much truths... like the resource based-view of the firm (even though he doesn't understand that this is what he has discovered).

If you do find this believable, I have some dotcom stocks to sell you, I promise that they will soon rebound...

The Goal is worth reading, but this book is a waste of paper and money, buy something else, like a Barbara Cartland novel.