PlayBook
  • Hello World
  • Principles
    • Understanding Truth
    • System Values
    • Limits of Engagement
    • Long-term Players
  • Starting at TVP
    • Applying
    • A-Player Attributes
    • Compensation Principle
    • Joining
    • Short-Term Hires
    • Guest Co-passengers
  • Failing at TVP
    • Realignment Solitude
  • Succeeding at TVP
    • DKRs and Goal Setting
    • Feedback Loops
      • Monthly Status Check
    • ETA Culture
    • Daily Logs
    • Weekend Syncups
    • 6-month Audit
  • Operating at TVP
    • Silent Meetings
    • Effective Communication
    • Work Schedule
    • Taking Time off
    • Getting Paid
    • Jarvis
    • Upgrading Playbook
  • Evolving at TVP
    • Basics of Ascending
    • Problem Solver Path
    • Problem See-er Path
    • Organisational Maturity Path
    • Team Maturity Path
  • Exiting TVP
    • Celebrating Goodbyes
  • Executing at TVP
    • Empathy in a Team
    • Understanding 'Done'
    • Self-Reponsibility
    • Critical Constraint
    • Purpose Driven Action
    • Level 2
      • Affordance
      • Second Order Thinking
      • Truth Seeking
      • Systems Thinking
      • Compounding
    • Level 3
      • Observe
      • Understanding Value
      • Output as a Process
      • Seeing the Real 'Why'
      • Leading
    • Alpha
      • Run-time Outcome != Output
      • Asking the Right Question
      • Understanding Value
      • Influence
      • Team as the atomic unit
  • Changelog
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  • Solve only 1 problem, the critical problem; at a time.
  • Critical path is the shortest path

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  1. Executing at TVP

Critical Constraint

The Rate Limiting Step

In the car assembly line, the maximum rate of production is = the lowest common rate of all components production. ONLY the lowest common rate of production.

Hence, the input car part that is the slowest (most lagging) is the one in control of the production rate. Only a change here, will impact the output.

In chemistry, there exists a similar concept: Rate Determining Step.

Solve only 1 problem, the critical problem; at a time.

See progress in terms of speed. Find the critical constraint that is reducing the rate of progress.

Only solve that, until it isn't the critical constraint anymore. Then move to the new critical constraint.

Any neuron spent on anything else is motion, not progress.

Critical path is the shortest path

A string of critical problems solved, leading to the outcome is the critical path. This is the holy grail of productivity.

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