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In any system, there is exactly one constraint that determines throughput at any given time — and improving anything that is not the constraint is an illusion of progress. The revolutionary implication is that most optimization effort is wasted: a factory with 50 machines should focus maniacally on the one bottleneck and deliberately leave the other 49 underutilized. This offends every efficiency instinct we have, which is precisely why most organizations fail to apply it.
