A manager's instinct is to strive to control everything.
That's not just ineffective, it's a practical impossibility.
So, where should managers commit finite resources to achieve their enterprise's mission? Eli Goldratt's Theory of Constraints (TOC), introduced in The Goal , is a great place to start, but a terrible place to stop, as most readers can't put that knowledge to use.
Constraints hold organizations in check.
Without them, productivity would be easy, and companies could gr.