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Improving anything other than the bottleneck is wasted effort.
Identify the slowest step in each workflow — that step determines your throughput.
Identify exploit and elevate your personal bottlenecks systematically.
Decision-making information processing energy management and context switching.
Before adding capacity make sure the bottleneck is fully utilized.
Adjust other parts of your system to support the bottleneck rather than running at their own pace.
The constraint shifts — return to step one and find the new bottleneck.
Sometimes fixing one bottleneck reveals that a downstream constraint was hidden.
In collaborative work specific people are often the constraint.
Sometimes a tool is the constraint and upgrading or replacing it unblocks the whole system.
Inefficient processes create artificial constraints that can be designed away.