The Phoenix Project(中譯本《鳳凰專案》)作者如是說:
Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt wrote his seminal book, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, in 1984. […] My coauthors and I studied this book for nearly a decade, getting ready to write The Phoenix Project. In many ways, I view our book as an homage to The Goal.
我和共同作者研究高德拉特博士的《目標》將近十年了,為撰寫《鳳凰專案》做準備。我認為,從很多方面來看,我們這本書都是在向《目標》致敬。