The Bottleneck Rules: How to Get More Done (When Working Harder isn't Working) by Clarke Ching

Author:Clarke Ching [Ching, Clarke]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-05T00:00:00+00:00

If you go into a concert or game at a stadium, the organisers carefully control the rate at which people flow in and out.

The diamond industry deliberately chokes the supply of diamonds in order to create artificial scarcity and keep prices high. Diamonds aren’t as rare as we think, but by inserting a deliberate bottleneck between production and retail, the diamond cartel has prevented diamonds from becoming a semi-precious gem. Maybe bottlenecks are a cartel’s best friend?

Even more useful is the fact that we can place a deliberate bottleneck at the start of a process, and choke, restrict, or throttle the flow of work into the system so it the entire system runs at the speed of the bottleneck. If we don’t do that, our workplace fills up with half-done work that’s queuing up waiting for the bottleneck. That’s when things get messy. You’ll see that in the next chapter where we look at another real-life example.

Great news! All the sand has passed through our egg timer, so can you please take our imaginary egg out of the pot and place it in our imaginary egg cup? And, can you take the tea bag out of the mug? It’s time for my imaginary breakfast.

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