With the bottlenecks more productive now, our throughput has gone up and our backlog is declining. But making the bottlenecks more productive has put… - Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Companies are so immersed in the mentality of saving money that they forget that the whole intention of a project is not to save money but to make money.

The minute you supply a person with the answers, by that very action you block them, once and for all, from the opportunity of inventing those same answers for themselves. If you want to go on an ego trip, to show how smart you are, give the answers. But if what you want is action to be taken, then you must refrain from giving the answers.

The more complicated the situation seems to be, the simpler solution must be. .. People believe that reality is complex, and therefore they are looking for sophisticated explanations for complicated solutions. .. Reality it is actually simple.