Season 1 / Episode 4 S1E04

Phase 1 Recap: How Your Business Really Works

Spot constraints and recognize when the owner has become the bottleneck.

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Episode overview

Four weeks, four big ideas: what a business is, how work gets done, the customer journey, and bottlenecks. Then all four applied to one example, a small catering business.

What you will learn

  • Spot constraints and recognize when the owner has become the bottleneck.

Your exercise

Put it into practice

Name your biggest constraint and what it depends on.

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