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Chapter 8

The Orchestra

Nobody plays free. Everybody plays to one beat.

The questionWho or what sets the beat in your operation, and does the rest of the system know it?

A system’s performance does not come from every resource running free, but from all of them marching to the constraint’s beat.

The scene this idea comes from is Chapter 8 of the book, available now.

You do not have to wait for it. A different chapter, The Mathematics of Flow, is already finished and ready to read: it is the one where the whole logic of the book becomes visible, and it stands on its own.

I will ask you one question back: which sentence in it describes something you are living through right now?