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• slowness—because dependency limits the opportunities for higher fluctuations.
• “It’s a little odd to call the market or the system of material release a bottleneck. Why don’t we change the word, to…” “Constraint?” Stacey suggests.
• guess it means that I’m accomplishing something.”
• I have come to the conclusion that productivity is the act of bringing a company closer to its goal. Every action that brings a company closer to its goal is productive.
• “What I’m telling you is, productivity is meaningless unless you know what your goal is,” he says.