Manage the bottleneck, not the whole set equally

The hidden limiter Every department looks busy, but each setup waits on a prosthetic reset that cannot be skipped. The production flow improves only when the limiting step improves. Theory of Constraints Find, exploit, subordinate, elevate First identify the constraint. Then make sure it is never starved, align other work around it, add capacity only where it matters, and repeat when the bottleneck moves. Busy is not flow Local efficiency can hide the step controlling total output. A day organized around the true limiter. The system moves at the speed of its constraint. 01 Find 02 Exploit 03 Elevate Constraint…

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