It was just an unexamined bottleneck in your logic. Stop hoping for a lucky break. Start looking for the policy constraint. As Goldratt shows, the difference between a struggling executive and a successful one is rarely fortune. It is the ability to answer: What to change?
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If you have read The Goal , you know the story of Alex Rogo and the dusty manufacturing plant. You know about the boy scout hike, the Herbie, and the realization that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. It was just an unexamined bottleneck in your logic