Building with Blocks / Removing Constraints
Blocks and Constraints
Grow balanced. Improve the slowest hiker.
Gears are required functions. Blocks are units of capacity. The constraint is the slowest part of the system. Improve it and the whole troop moves.
GMOwner
01
Gears vs blocks
You cannot skip Accounting or Sales. You can add a block of 500 leads, or a salesperson, or a crew, as a unit of growth.
02
Balance
Do not hire the next salesperson without the lead block. Do not add crews far ahead of sold work.
03
Find the constraint
If we doubled output tomorrow, what breaks first? Work there. Improving a non-constraint is motion without progress.
How to use it
- Name the constraint on the wall. All extra effort goes there until it moves.
- Review blocks monthly with Marketing, Sales, and Production in the same conversation.