Book Review - Critical Chain

Critical Chain
By Eliyahu M. Goldratt

I am reading this book again after several years. Even on the second turn it was as interesting read as it was for the first time.

Critical Chain is a recommended read for all the leaders, project managers, operations manager, finance & marketing personnel’s. The book teaches us how we should question the pragmatic ways in which things are been done and come up with alternatives to do the things in a better way.

In this book Eliyahu Goldratt highlights how the current education system has done more harm than added any value to the individual. In my opinion the current system has made people to stop thinking and follow those things as they are mentioned in those books. The teaching methodology as described in the book highlights how the training and learning should happen in the class via more interactive sessions between the students and the trainer.

The book is especially a great value add to Project managers who are in a constant Endeavour to identify the right things that needs to be done on their projects. Eliyahu mentions how the student syndrome needs to be taken care of and how the estimates have to be developed in a way that they are more realistic.

A must read.

Kaushal Thakkar