Chapter 4
The Slowest Scout
The troop walks at the pace of its slowest member.
The questionIf the group can only move at the speed of the slowest, why do we keep speeding up the fast ones?
Every chain has a constraint that governs the performance of the entire system.
The scene this idea comes from is Chapter 4 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?
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