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Paulo Renato

Another book that anyone should read, is The Bottleneck Rules, and its free.

This book will show you why the bottleneck may not be where everyone sees it is, but instead is somewhere else in the pipeline of your organization.

From GoogReads:

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
  • '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' - Prof Witold Łojkowski, Head of Nanostructures Laboratory, Institute of High Pressure Physics, PAS

This tiny book shares one little-known concept: there's a bottleneck hiding inside your organisation, but because you don't know where it is, it's in charge. What's it doing? It's slowing your entire team, or organisation, down.

The Bottleneck Rules shows you how to find your bottleneck, then manage it, no matter where you work.

You'll learn how to do this using real examples from a broad range of workplaces and occupations, including accountancy, retail, airports, hospitals, software development, and hotels.

It contains one Dad Joke.

It's not as funny as the author thinks, but you'll find it surprisingly useful.


If you don't know where your bottleneck is, scroll up, BUY the book, and READ it this evening.

Within a week, your workplace will have sped up, and calmed down. You will be in charge of your bottleneck, not the other way around.

This is a book that is quick to read and it will change the way you look into bottlenecks, not only the ones in the organizations, but the ones in your code.

It really changes the way you look into stuff.

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