What it takes to achieve your objective: Means, Method and Motivation

When facing a challenge, many subordinates quickly complain about the lack of means and  scarce resources. But what it takes to achieve an objective is more than just means. The common complaints about means Complaining about scarcity of means or resources is a convenient way to push the responsibility of the difficulty of the challenge …

How to identify the constraint of a system? Part 5/5 – The valley of despair

This is part 5 of a series of posts about identifying the constraint of a system and time for wrapping up and a conclusion (of the series, not the topic!). Newcomers to Theory of Constraints understand quite easily the concept of bottleneck but are frequently puzzled when looking for them in a real-life process. Furthermore, …