Free diagnostic — 10 questions
What’s actually capping your growth?
Sales, marketing, delivery, operations — or you. Ten questions, under five minutes, and you’ll know which one is the constraint. Built from twenty years of running businesses, including growing a consultancy from $400K to $3.7M and selling it.
Before we start
First, a little context.
What kind of firm do you run?
Why one constraint, why now
Most businesses have one real constraint and several symptoms that look just as urgent.
Effort spent anywhere but the constraint doesn’t move the business — that’s simply how systems behave. Growing a consultancy from $400K to $3.7M, the constraint moved four times. The way to find it never changed. — Pete
1
constraint sets a system's throughput. Effort poured anywhere else changes nothing — that's the theory of constraints, not a slogan.
62.5
hours a week — the average CEO in Harvard's 12-year time study. And those were CEOs with full executive teams.
~1/3
of new businesses are still operating after 10 years, per U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics survival data.
Sources: Harvard Business Review, “How CEOs Manage Time” (2018); U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Business Employment Dynamics; Goldratt’s theory of constraints. Directional context — which is exactly why the finder grades your answers, not an industry average.