Initiatives
Run no more than three initiatives at once, only one of them an opportunity, and put your best people on that opportunity and on your biggest bottlenecks.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt’s 1990 exposition of the Theory of Constraints: how to identify, exploit, subordinate to, and elevate the system’s bottleneck so throughput rises instead of local efficiency.
Run no more than three initiatives at once, only one of them an opportunity, and put your best people on that opportunity and on your biggest bottlenecks.
A system's throughput is limited by its bottleneck. Improving anything else does not improve the system.