Every system has one constraint that decides everything. Find it. Fix it. Move.
A bottleneck is the part of your system — your product, your team, your workflow, your life — that slows everything else down.
Not the part that feels annoying.
Not the part that’s easiest to fix.
The part that actually decides your speed.
Bottleneck hunting is the discipline of identifying the single constraint that is holding back the entire system, and solving that instead of fixing everything at once.
High performers don’t try to optimize every area.
They find the place where leverage is hiding.
Most teams try to improve 10 things by 10 percent.
Great teams improve 1 thing by 1,000 percent.
That’s bottleneck thinking.
Here’s the thing:
Hard work doesn’t guarantee progress.
You can run hard in the wrong direction and stay stuck indefinitely.
Bottleneck hunting gives you clarity on:
– where to apply effort