Israeli physicist and management theorist who created the Theory of Constraints and founded the Avraham Y. Goldratt Institute.
The Goal teaches throughput accounting and constraint management inside a plant-turnaround novel: find the bottleneck, subordinate every other decision to it, raise it, then repeat. The method transfers to any process with a limiting step, which is why operations, project and software-delivery teams still run on it.
4 books of their own