The Bottleneck Rules: How to Get More Done (When Working Harder isn't Working)

  Do you know where it is?

 The Bottleneck Rules shows you how to find it, and manage it. Your entire business will speed up, within hours.

Back in the 1980s business guru Eli Goldratt wrote a best-selling business novel, called "The Goal”. That book revealed the essence of a sophisticated algorithm that factory managers around the world still use, to this day, to speed up their factories, and to make more money. It works by scheduling their factory so their bottleneck's productivity, and therefore their factory's productivity, is maximised. (Goldratt's work is now known as The Theory of Constraints).

 The Bottleneck Rules simplifies - and modernises - Goldratt's message and shows you how to apply his approach, no matter where you work, using a simple 7-step focusing process.

It's a short, easy read.

 From The Guardian: 'Ching's title is a play on words: he offers rules for dealing with bottlenecks, but it's an implacable truth that a bottleneck rules whatever system it afflicts. So fixing a bottleneck delivers vastly disproportionate benefits ... By contrast, if you fail to fix a bottleneck, improving anything else may be a waste of time: no point getting your baristas to take orders twice as fast if the espresso machines take two minutes per coffee regardless. Indeed, “improving” things while neglecting bottlenecks can make matters worse.'

If you don't know where your bottleneck is hiding ...You need to get The Bottleneck Rules.

As featured in The Spectator magazine and The Guardian newspaper.

 'It's a great read" Oliver Burkeman, author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

 '[Part of] a series of wonderful short books" Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, author of Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense

 'Fantastic book, relevant no matter what sector you work in' Maria Macnamara, MBE, Founder and CEO of the international charity Smalls For All'A very good book with a practical approach to Goldratt's 5 steps"