A slim 70-page collection of essays that originally appeared as a monthly column by eliyahu-goldratt in Industry Week magazine, published by north-river-press in 1998. The conversational format — late-night dialogues applying theory-of-constraints logic to real business problems — reflects Goldratt's preferred socratic-novel-pedagogy approach in compressed form. Topics include distribution channel problems in the automotive industry and other applications of TOC thinking outside manufacturing.
Though slight compared to the novels and major non-fiction works, Late Night Discussions is significant for two reasons: it documents Goldratt's engagement with a mainstream business journalism audience through Industry Week, and it captures TOC being applied to industry-specific problems in a way the more general books do not. The collection belongs to the same period as essays-on-the-theory-of-constraints and critical-chain, when Goldratt was actively expanding TOC's domain during the domain-expansion-era.